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Is Religion a Reason to Allow Knife-carrying?

Rebecca Roache
BBC
February 8, 2010

Sikhs should be allowed to carry ceremonial knives in schools and other public places, says Britain’s first Asian judge. But can religion ever justify loopholes in the law?


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Have Faith in Love

Eric Lax
New York Times
February 8, 2010

Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions.


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The Jihadist Next Door
New York Times
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
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January 29

Violent Criminal Spared From Prison Because He Was Religious

By Matthew Moore
Telegraph
February 3, 2010

A secular campaign group has lodged a formal complaint against Cherie Blair for allegedly sparing a violent criminal from jail because he believed in God. The wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and a current judge who sits under the name Cherie Booth QC, said that she would suspend Shamso Miah’s prison sentence because he was a “religious man.”


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Prejudiced Danes provoke fanaticism
The Guardian
by Nancy Graham Holm
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One on One - Richard Dawkins

Al Jazeera English
January 11, 2010

An in-depth and surprisingly personal interview of Richard Dawkins by Riz Khan.


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January 6
Voicing our disbelief
TPM: The Philosopher's Magazine
Russell Blackford
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Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Pew Forum
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