Holy History!
It has been big news that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh – who along with Henry Lincoln wrote the bestselling book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail – are suing Dan Brown, author of the wildly...
View ArticleAnd I Thought I Knew What Tolerance Meant
As reported in newspapers around the world this week, one Abdul Rahman has landed himself in an Afghanistan courtroom charged with converting to Christianity. He was even found to be carrying a Bible...
View ArticleNow They’ve Gone And Given Jesus A Rocket-Launcher
There are, apparently, a series of very successful novels published by a Christian Fundamentalist movement in the USA known as ‘Left Behind’ – dealing fictionally with the Apocalypse and it’s...
View ArticleIntelligent Design
Every year, we are told, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spends a long weekend with his former graduate students for an informal debate on issues of the day. A topic is chosen and they seclude themselves...
View ArticleA Matter Of Language
The unrecognisable being on the right is, of course, Aishah Azmi, who today lost her tribunal hearing where she claimed she was a victim of religious discrimination following her suspension by...
View ArticleVeiled Communication
Following a case where legal adviser Shabnam Mughal refused to remove her head-wear during an immigration tribunal in Stoke-on-Trent and the judge adjourned the case because he couldn’t hear her speak,...
View ArticleWhatever You Do, Don’t Get Raped In Pakistan
According to Pakistans independent Human Rights Commission, somewhere in the country a woman is raped every two hours and one is gang-raped every eight hours. And this is thought to be a vast...
View ArticleBarbarism Twenty First Century Style
I have tried – really, I have tried. I have read books and websites. I have watched documentaries and interviews. I have had conversations. And without fail, every Muslim tells me that theirs is a...
View ArticleMy God Is Better Than Your God
Fellow Witanagemot member, L’Ombre de l’Olivier has bought to my attention a debate taking place in the Washington Post between Michael Gerson and our old friend Christopher Hitchens on the nature of...
View ArticleBlasphemer
I learned on the BBC news website yesterday that the blasphemy laws are likely to be repealed. This news came as quite a shock to me as I didn’t even know we still had blasphemy as an offence. It’s...
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