Does Religion Cause Violence? Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have. Brian Boutwell / Jonathan Anomaly 22 Jan 2017 · 10 min read
Islam's Liberal Counter-Insurgency In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity. Jamie Palmer 18 Dec 2016 · 7 min read
The Hijab and the Regressive Left’s Absurd Campaign to Betray Freethinking Women By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision. Jeffrey Tayler 7 Dec 2016 · 9 min read
Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself. AR Devine 14 Oct 2016 · 7 min read
Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance The doctrine of inerrancy, on the other hand, places intolerable constraints on polite conversation, our only known alternative to violence. Oliver Waters 20 Aug 2016 · 5 min read
Liberalism’s Great Challenge: How Can We Critique Ideas while Protecting People? The words are usually associated with Eastern or New Age spirituality, and they sound as bizarre on the tongue of a science-minded atheist as an Arab Bible-believer. Valerie Tarico 4 Aug 2016 · 9 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali A woman whose life story, by any rational, humane standards, should win encomia from, and the admiration of, decent people everywhere. Jeffrey Tayler 17 Jun 2016 · 18 min read
The Josiah Effect: How Moderate Religion Fuels Fundamentalism As it turns out, the phenomenon of a young man becoming radicalized after reading his religion’s holy book for the first time has been around for thousands of years. Henry Rambow 14 Jun 2016 · 10 min read
Reza Aslan Peddles False Wares to Influential Dupes Aslan peddles a sanitized version of Islam to gullible viewers. Jeffrey Tayler 27 May 2016 · 14 min read
Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.” Jeffrey Tayler 5 May 2016 · 10 min read
In Their Rush To Blame Religion, New Atheists Overlook Evil Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed. Timothy Rowe 25 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption. Jeffrey Tayler 21 Apr 2016 · 12 min read
Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights. Tehmina Kazi 8 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam The removal of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, he argued, would be a deliverance, and the nobility of the project to help build a democracy in its place ought to be self-evident. Jamie Palmer 29 Mar 2016 · 13 min read