- Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2005 Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2008 The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- The God Delusion
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
- Infidel
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Resource Type: Book
- Lure of the Sinister
The Unnatural History of Satanism Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
- Using the divine for corporate power
Review of The Empire God Built Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1998
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