Thought-provoking ideas in religious studies

theguardian —  Pupils from St Marylebone school, London, attend a multi-faith assembly in church. It would be a grave disservice to students “to ditch religious studies in school” (Loose canon, 5 December) and to trivialise multifaith religious education as “mushy relativism” is unjust. Educators from Bosnia visiting our comprehensive school […]

The Denial of Religious Freedom Yields Worse Conditions for Women and Atheists

RNS: PRESS RELEASE: In a concise but wide-ranging interview, Brian Grim, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, discusses the adverse impact for women, atheists and society in general when religious freedom is denied. watch:  Rather than religious freedom being in contradiction with other basic human rights, Grim describes how they all advance or […]

Pakistan: A Slave’s Path to Freedom

Pakistan needs a Lincoln to abolish slavery By Hasnain Kazim, Der Spiegel  Dec 8, 2014 Diego Ibarra Sanchez/ DER SPIEGEL For more than 16 years, Hanif Masih worked as an indentured servant in a brick factory in Pakistan. Then, an aid organization purchased his freedom. Though he remains extremely poor, […]

Urdu: Blasphemy act of Junaid Jamshed and hypocrisy of Deobandi clerics.

نید جمشید کے واقعے سے ایک بات تو واضح ہو کر سامنے آ گئی کہ توہین رسالت اور توہین صحابہ اور امہات المومنین کا قانون ان مولوی حضرات کے لیئے ایک کھیل سے زیادہ اہمیت نہیں رکھتا اور ان قوانین کو صرف فرقہ وارانہ مقاصد اور دوسروں سے دشمنی نکالنے […]