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News | Thu, 08 Aug 2013
Woking Borough Council has issued a 'clarification' on its policy that grants car parking exemptions to religious groups. The move follows the threat of legal action from the National Secular Society. |
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News | Fri, 09 Aug 2013
Leeds City Council has seen off an attempt by opposition councillors to derail its plans to cut free transport for children attending "faith schools". |
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News | Fri, 09 Aug 2013
A new survey on life at school has revealed that RE is regarded as the least useful subject to learn. |
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News | Tue, 06 Aug 2013
A French Government-funded research institute is recommending that the wearing of religious symbols should be banned in the country's universities to ease "escalating religious tensions in all areas of university life." |
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Opinion | Fri, 09 Aug 2013
Anne Marie Waters argues that stoning is very much a part of Islamic sharia law, and needs to be named and shamed. |
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News | Thu, 08 Aug 2013
Switzerland wants to get rid of its old-fashioned "hymn-like" national anthem and replace it with a modern, secular version. |
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News | Tue, 06 Aug 2013
A group promoting fundamentalist Christian values in the United States is demanding the right to deliver "inspirational messages" during public school assemblies. |
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News | Thu, 08 Aug 2013
An attempt to put a petition up on the Government's e-petition website by someone called "Paul" which calls for the NSS to be made illegal, has been rejected. |
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News | Thu, 08 Aug 2013
You can win two tickets to see the National Youth Theatre's new play, Pope Joan which will be performed at St James church in Piccadilly, central London from 31 August to 15 September. |
NSS Scottish Spokesman Alistair McBay had this letter in the Scotsman.
| Islamic extremism on campus - your experiences are needed! |
The NSS has been approached by Blakeway, a TV production company asking for student experiences of Islamic extremism on campus. Have you experienced Islamic extremism at university? If you have, what form did it take? If you are interested in participating, please email Joe Smith at Blakeway directly at joe.smith@blakeway.tv, and please copy us in at admin@secularism.org.uk. Joe can also be contacted on 0207 428 3182 or 0752 812 514.
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"Discussing my religion puts me into a coma. I never told anyone I was Jewish. I don't feel Jewish in any way and I wouldn't know a Jewish holiday if it spat on my head. But when I first came to England, every mention of my name would read "Ruby Wax, Jewish". I don't trust people using markers like that. I know what it does to people's minds."
(Ruby Wax, The Times) "Throughout the Arab world, a struggle between two major historical forces, religion and secularism, is now unfolding. It is the type of battle between Caesar and God that took Europe centuries to resolve."
(Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project-Syndicate)
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