1. Next week, blasphemy gets its own holiday
(Religion/Atheism)

... You bet. It is part of an upcoming art exhibit in Washington that will mark the first-ever International Blasphemy Day next Wednesday (Sept. 30) at the Center for Inquiry DC near Capitol Hill. A...

2. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...se. Several Muslim countries blocked YouTube and other video-sharing sites in an effort to keep Wilders' blasphemy from penetrating the minds of their citizens. There have also been isolated prote...

3. Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish 'thoughtless or cruel' words
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...iams, who has seen his own Anglican Communion riven by fierce invective over homosexuality, said the current blasphemy law was “unworkable” and he had no objection to its repeal. But what...

4. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...rnational protests, and deepening concern about erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundam...

5. Death Sentence for Afghan Student
(Religion/Enforced religion)

An Afghan court in northern Afghanistan sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, the j

6. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

... bear after the most popular boy in the class, who bore the name of the founder of Islam. She was jailed for blasphemy and threatened with a public flogging, while a mob outside the prison demanded he...

7. Former bishop against blasphemy laws
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...y, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is backing a new cross-party attempt by MPs to abolish Britain's blasphemy laws, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.Lord Carey argues that the existing legal pr...