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Freedom under FireSupporting Terry Jones’s Koran burning without qualification
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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“Burn a Koran Day” and the Flames of ExtremismIt’s fair to say that the fifteen minutes of fame recently afforded to Terry Jones—the once-obscure Florida preacher with the misguided plan to burn copies of the Koran at his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, on September 11—inadvertently [Read More...]
Published in the November / December 2010 Humanist
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ISSUE AT HANDBLASPHEMY! The word is almost onomatopoeic in the sense that all anyone has to do in order to claim a sacred offense is cry it out loud. But what happens when the authorities start to listen? From plots to kill [Read More...]
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
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Ripping into the BibleON THE MORNING of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages of the Bible. Earlier that week his teacher had taped aphorisms by Ralph Waldo Emerson on [Read More...]
Published in the March / April 2008 Humanist
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Absolute Infidel: The Evolution of Ayaan Hirsi AliAmong the many Muslim and ex-Muslim women currently commenting on Islam, particularly in regard to women’s issues, humanists are probably most familiar with four: Taslima Nasrin, Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Though these women come from distinctly [Read More...] |
 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingIts ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn’t want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens can be persuasive even when [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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