Posted: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 by Safak Pavey
Political Islamism has undermined the Turkish Republic's secular social order, education and legal systems and Western pundits manifestly failed to see this coming, argues Turkish opposition MP, Safak Pavey.
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Posted: Wed, 13 Nov 2019
Sixty-nine countries have blasphemy laws and penalties have hardened in parts of the world in recent years, a report has found.
Posted: Wed, 06 Nov 2019
An Islamic school has been found in breach of standards for segregating children by sex, two years after the practice was ruled unlawful....
Posted: Thu, 31 Oct 2019
The government has said it expects food producers and outlets to give consumers information on meat from non-stun slaughter.
Posted: Thu, 31 Oct 2019
The European Court of Human Rights has said RE curricula must be conveyed in an "objective" manner after a successful NSS intervention.
Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2019
An independent Islamic school has remained open despite telling the government it had closed, a report has revealed.
An Islamic organisation which condones extremist messages was among charities which registered on questionable grounds in October. The bar for religious groups to become charities is set too low, says...
Posted: Tue, 19 Nov 2019
The Welsh government is considering removing the parental right to withdraw from religious education. Alastair Lichten argues that despite potential benefits, reforms don't go far enough to justify ending...
Posted: Thu, 14 Nov 2019
Chris Sloggett says the major parties in the current election campaign are indulging Britain's division into religious tribes – and we should urgently ask how we can move past this.
Posted: Thu, 14 Nov 2019
In response to a targeted criticism of the NSS for campaigning to end non-stun slaughter, Chris Sloggett says the principle of one law for all is worth upholding.
Posted: Thu, 07 Nov 2019