Challenging Religious Privilege
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Posted: Thu, 18 Apr 2019
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The NSS has called for scrutiny into charities in insular religious communities following alleged money laundering involving Jewish charities....
Posted: Mon, 15 Apr 2019
Islamic charities have linked to content endorsing marital rape and execution for homosexuality and 'apostasy', the NSS has found.
Posted: Mon, 15 Apr 2019
Public figures and campaigners including the NSS have urged the government not to fund a new wave of religiously selective faith schools....
Posted: Fri, 12 Apr 2019
Government guidance has said crematoria should accommodate the needs of people of "all faiths and none", following NSS recommendations.
Posted: Fri, 12 Apr 2019
The number of people who say they are non-religious in Great Britain has risen by 46% in seven years, according to official figures.
As a regulator issues patronising advice to advertisers in the run-up to Easter, Chris Sloggett takes a look at its guidance on religious offence – and finds a deep and damaging aversion to freedom...
Posted: Thu, 04 Apr 2019
The Jehovah's Witnesses organisation causes serious abuse and harm, says Lloyd Evans. Its charitable status should be revoked – and society should stop assuming religious organisations only have...
Posted: Tue, 26 Mar 2019
An NSS report says 'the advancement of religion' should be removed as a charitable purpose. Stephen Evans says the law should align with public opinion and only support charities that deliver a genuine...
Posted: Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Politicians who insist female genital cutting has nothing to do with religion set a dangerous precedent that undermines campaigns to combat it and other religious harms, says Megan Manson.
Posted: Thu, 14 Mar 2019
As protesters demand the end of Sudan's Islamist regime, Nahla Mahmoud says a secular democracy is the only way to protect the rights of the Sudanese people.
Posted: Wed, 06 Mar 2019