New Atheists and old prejudices
New Atheists and Christian fundamentalists have become strange bedfellows in their crusade against Islam. This has alienated many atheists, especially in the Arab world.
Read MoreNew Atheists and Christian fundamentalists have become strange bedfellows in their crusade against Islam. This has alienated many atheists, especially in the Arab world.
Read MoreSalman Rushdie made a very unlikely target for the fury of conservative Muslims, which is why the opportunistic fatwa issued by a Khomeini in serious decline took the novelist and the world by surprise.
Read MoreRather than being like a vegetarian who suddenly becomes a carnivore, a former Islamophobic politician’s conversion to Islam is more akin to a committed soda beverage drinker switching from Coca Cola to Pepsi.
Read MoreIn much of the world, ‘Muslim’ is often used as a marker of ethnic origin rather than of religion. This must change.
Read MoreThe Virgin Mary appeared eight times to a child in Belgium and the rest is ‘alternative history’
Read MoreIn the first of a series of articles exploring the disturbing parallels between radical Islamic and white/Christian extremism, Khaled Diab examines whether far-right suicide attackers could become a phenomenon.
Read MoreMr Trump, if you really want to know “what the hell is going on” with Islam, I invite you and all the other bigots out there to join me on a mind-expanding journey through Islam(s), passing through the main thoroughfares and back alleys of history, society, culture, politics, theology and, above all, people.
Read MoreThe bombing of St Peter’s Church in Cairo exposes the growing vulnerability of Egypt’s Christian minority and the increasing mainstreaming of extremist Islamist discourse.
Read MoreThe Middle Eastern practice of assigning a faith to every citizen and a separate court system for each religion promotes division and sectarianism.
Read MoreAtheists do not “pray” and are not “spiritual”. I urge my fellow non-believers to halt the creeping spiritualisation of our creed.
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