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  • 8 May 2008
    Distinguishing Islam and 'Islamism'

    Is it that 'new atheists' like Sam Harris simply don't understand religion (beyond assembling everything bad they know to attack it with), or is the failure to distinguish positive and negative deliberate?

  • 7 Sep 2007
    The slow dawn of reason?

    Both Richard Dawkins and Polly Toynbee, who spend a good deal of time fulminating against caricatures of 'religion' were on the BBC today. And guess what, they abandoned vituperation for once.

  • 21 Mar 2007
    Resisting the polarising mindset

    Simon Barrow says that the idea of 'religious liberals' being foils for bombers and bigots is a distorted and distorting notion produced by too much heat and not enough light.

  • 21 Mar 2007
    Less heat and more light needed on religion and extremism
  • 21 Mar 2007
    Secularist leader accuses religious liberals of aiding fanatics

    The president of the National Secular Society has written an article claiming that religious liberals are “making excuses for the same beliefs that motivate bombers and theocrats, misogynists and homophobes”. Others disagree.