...Just mounting a legal challenge, whether or not it succeeds, inflicts cost and fea...
ISLAMABAD - The governor of Pakistan's most dominant province was shot and killed Tuesday by a bodyguard who authorities said was angry about his opposition to blasphemy laws carrying the death sentence for insulting the Muslim faith. Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, regarded as a moderate voice in a country increasingly beset by zealotry, was a close ally of U.S.- backed President Asif Ali Zardari. He is the highest-profile Pakistani political figure to be assassinated since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto three years ago, and his death underscores the growing danger in this country to those who dare challenge the demands of Islamist extremists.
Christians don't own Christmas," says [Margaret Downey]. "If they did, you'd have Jesus grottos in department stores. You'd have kids sitting in the Virgin Mary's lap. "I came across the religious stuff, and I just thought, 'This is silly!' I told Floyd, and he said, 'Margaret, I think you must be an atheist, just like I am.' I said, 'Atheist, what's that? He told me to look it up." "To me Christmas means eggnog lattes and gingerbread cake at Starbucks and hanging out with my Jewish family at the movies," she says. "I also just got an awesome winter wonderland snow globe at Target. Sure, it plays that sucky 'Santa's coming to town' song, but it's cool."
... News, sick of seeing intellectually challenged God-botherers like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly ...Last December the RRS issued its Blasphemy Challenge. Claiming that the one absolutely unforg...
.... The Constitutional Challenge to the Ten Commandments . For many who firmly beli...Interestingly, the interaction between blasphemy and the First Amendment's Free Speech clause has c...
ISLAMABAD - The governor of Pakistan's most dominant province was shot and killed Tuesday by a bodyguard who authorities said was angry about his opposition to blasphemy laws carrying the death sentence for insulting the Muslim faith. Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, regarded as a moderate voice in a country increasingly beset by zealotry, was a close ally of U.S.- backed President Asif Ali Zardari. He is the highest-profile Pakistani political figure to be assassinated since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto three years ago, and his death underscores the growing danger in this country to those who dare challenge the demands of Islamist extremists.
ISLAMABAD - The governor of Pakistan's most dominant province was shot and killed Tuesday by a bodyguard who authorities said was angry about his opposition to blasphemy laws carrying the death sentence for insulting the Muslim faith. Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, regarded as a moderate voice in a country increasingly beset by zealotry, was a close ally of U.S.- backed President Asif Ali Zardari. He is the highest-profile Pakistani political figure to be assassinated since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto three years ago, and his death underscores the growing danger in this country to those who dare challenge the demands of Islamist extremists.
For some time, the religious right has decried "secular humanism," a philosophy that rejects the supernatural or spiritual as a basis for moral decisionmaking. But now, nonbelievers are vigorously fighting back. Only a small percentage of Americans admit to being nontheists (between 2 and 9 percent, depending on the poll), but that equates to many millions. And religionists' role in debates over stem-cell research and evolution vs. intelligent design -- as well as radical religion in world conflicts -- have galvanized some atheists to mount a counteroffensive.
...Their "blasphemy challenge" calls on young nonbelievers to create v...
ENVOY IS 'POWERFUL STATEMENT' Pakistan is sending an outspoken politician who supports religious freedom and women's rights as its new ambassador to the United States, replacing an envoy who resigned in a diplomatic scandal that further ripped the already tattered relations between Washington and Islamabad.
... for a bill to end the death penalty for blasphemy against Islam brought death threats from Muslim ex... Azhar Siddique, has filed a legal challenge to her appointment because of her support for amen...
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN New York Times News Service
...4. Blasphemy. Individual religious testimony abounds on YouTube... devoted to curing theism, has challenged YouTubers to post videos of themselves denying the...
Around the European Union, the implication by large sections of society is that there is something intrinsically different about Islam that makes it difficult to integrate Muslims into European societies. Some of these sections of society are non-Muslim, and are reluctant to allow such integration to take place; others are Muslim. These sentiments raise a number of issues relating to plural identities and their compatibility with modern day Europe and Islam, with such issues finding variable expressions in member-states. The British example represents an illustrative case study, having a long history of interaction with Muslims and being the home of a large Muslim population. History bears witness that in terms of religious diversity, the U.K. was never a monolithic society based on a m...
... lost much of its former credibility, challenged by British historians. While it is correct to note..., including the extension of the blasphemy law to include offenses against Islam (discussed b...
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