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Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has c...more

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Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

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The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas...more

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Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you ...more

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The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When we...more

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So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it useful ...more

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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This busine...more

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All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all t...more

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I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what i...more

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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.

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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.