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The Twofold Wrongheadedness Of The Burkini Row

August 30, 2016 | by Ivor Jones | 0 Comments

“The burkini is like a uniform, a symbol of Islamist extremism.” These were the words of David Lisnard, the Mayor of Cannes, explaining why he was banning the use of ‘burkinis’ on beaches in his city – a city just a few miles away from Nice, which last month was the target of an Islamist […] Read more

Extremism on Campus: Islamist Narratives are Going Unchallenged

August 25, 2016 | by Leo Gibbons-Plowright | 0 Comments

We won’t defeat the ideologies of fascism and Islamism through blanket censorship. We defeat these ideas by exposing their fallacies and undermining their arguments through open debate and criticisms. Islamists and their fellow-travellers on the far-Left will attempt to shut down this discussion, but we cannot let this happen. Read more

No Compulsion in Religion?

August 18, 2016 | by Will TG Miller | 0 Comments

Canadian blogger Abdullah Sameer posted a video on Facebook last Thursday that picked up around 70,000 views in less than 24 hours. The topic was bound to attract attention; Sameer’s video was a video diary on why he had made the decision to leave Islam. Sporting a large and characteristic South Asian beard, Sameer looked […] Read more

The Evils of Rampant Religious Privilege

July 23, 2016 | by Dale Claridge | 0 Comments

Criticisms of the Catholic Church, Islamist violence and religious intolerance are chiefly and sometimes exclusively championed by people well-known for their anti-religious sentiment. Rather than disparaging religion, it is more respectable to lack any strong beliefs, but also treat religious ideas delicately. However, a whiff of religiosity seems to protect the interests of sinister groups […] Read more