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Witchcraft Report Will Be “Harrowing”
Ministers are preparing to publish a “harrowing� report on the abuse meted out to African children in Britain branded as “witches�.
Is The Blasphemy Law Going To Be Extended?
Home Secretary Charles Clarke intimated that the Government might yet extend the blasphemy law to cover all religions, rather than abolish it, as had been implied if the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill got through Parliament.
Secular Arabs Fearful of Islamic Resurgence In Palestine
The victory of Hamas – or the Islamic Resistance Movement to give it its English name – which won 74 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Parliament, has raised the fear that Palestinians might henceforth be subject to sharia, or Islamic law. As one of the dark jokes now sweeping Ramallah has it, “Drink like it’s going out of fashion: it is.�
Catholic Church Protests at Proposed Loss of Public Subsidy in Spain
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s plan to reduce financial aid to the church is bringing angry opposition from self-serving clergy.
An “Atheist Messiah” Creates Outrage
Williams Calls For Muslims To Embrace "Secularism"
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has admitted that secularism is the best way to avoid religious conflict. Whether his — as usual, convoluted — take on secularism would chime with that of NSS members is a matter of conjecture.
We Don't Mind If Iraq Is A Theocracy, Says British Government
After forcibly deposing a tyrant in the name of democracy, the British Government now says that it doesn’t mind that Iraq is about to become a tyrannical theocracy.
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