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News | Wed, 27 Apr 2016
The National Secular Society has written to the Bangladeshi High Commission criticising their government's inaction over a spate of Islamist killings. |
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News | Mon, 25 Apr 2016
The NSS has warned that Government plans to convert all schools in England into academies could increase the level of religious influence and see the CofE gaining control of non-faith-based schools. |
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News | Wed, 27 Apr 2016
Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned that leaders in some independent Islamic schools are continuing to undermine British values, after inspectors found more evidence of gender segregation. |
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News | Thu, 28 Apr 2016
A Northern Ireland councillor has been criticised after comparing a Sixth Form student's campaign against mandatory school worship to the "early stage" of Hitler and Stalin's rule. |
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News | Thu, 28 Apr 2016
A victim of clerical abuse has refused to give evidence to a Church review of the Bishop Peter Ball case, after it declined to explicitly mention intimidation of victims in its Terms of Reference. |
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News | Tue, 26 Apr 2016
The Turkish politician charged with redrafting the country's constitution has called for an Islamic constitution as opposition leaders warn that "Secularism is there to ensure that everyone has religious freedom." |
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"Secularism is a principle for social peace. The chaos in the Middle East is the product of ways of thinking that make religion an instrument of politics."
Muray Yetkin, Hurriyet Daily News. Whether you are Atheist, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Wiccan, Christian, or Jewish, you should stand in solidarity for secularism in government, as it will guarantee us all the civil rights we deserve and are afforded.
Mandie Czech, Chicago Monitor. "it might be too early to write the obituary of a secular Bangladesh. If only the same could be said for secular Bangladeshis."
Economist editorial.
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