Tag Archives: religious tolerance

Weekly Update: 3-Sep-2016 to 9-Sep-2016

by | September 10, 2016

I’ve been wanting to set up recurring updates about topics of interest to Canadian atheists for years now. I was quite enthused when Secular Lynx started doing it a year or so back. But Secular Lynx seems to have died, so I thought it was finally time to step up.

The curious incident of the US Office of International Religious Freedom denouncing blasphemy laws

by | August 27, 2016

In an interesting turn of events, David Saperstein, United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom posted a blog on Wednesday titled “Time To Abolish Blasphemy Laws, Uphold Freedom of Expression”.

With widespread burqini bans, French laïcité may have finally jumped the shark

by | August 20, 2016

Quick question, Canadian islamophobes: If I told you that a government was enforcing a dress code for women (and women only) for the sake of “respecting good morals”, because if women wear what they please it might “draw a crowd and disrupt public order”, and thus the government was enacting this legislation to “protect those… Read more »