No return to the Middle Ages
The shocking events at Batley Grammar School in March this year should alert us to the constant need to defend the principle that we are a secular society.
Secularism
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Free speech has to be defended
28 May 2021
The report into events at Batley Grammar School in March has lifted supensions on the teachers involved. But it does not deal with the threat to free speech and educations posed by the fundamentalist demonstrations.
Law Society withdraws sharia guidance
The Law Society has withdrawn its guidance on inheritance under sharia law after a widespread and fierce campaign called it a “gross dereliction of duty” and demanded its removal.
‘Shariafication’ of British law attacked
26 October 2014
The Secular 2014 conference included a devastating analysis by Pragna Patel of the disturbing influence of fundamentalism in Britain’s legal system by what she calls “shariafication by stealth”.
Richard Dawkins and the dangerous delusion of religion
A new book by an Oxford professor subjects religious claims and attitudes to rational, scientific examination...