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No intelligent government should impair the right of free speech to placate people who falsely claim they are victims when often they are, in fact, aggressors.
To the 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, however, all human rights must first be based on Islamic religious law, Sharia: whatever is inside Sharia is a human right, whatever is outside Sharia is not a human right.
A consultation is to be held on whether older pupils should be allowed to opt themselves out of religious observance in schools, the BBC has learned.
All young people in Scotland need parental permission to withdraw from religious activities like assemblies.
The Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) was seeking a judicial review of that policy for older pupils.
More than a quarter of Jewish workers in the UK are wary of speaking openly about their faith in the workplace, new research conducted for the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis has found.
Interviews with a sample of Jewish workers also found that many are reluctant to wear any kind of religious dress or symbol.
A good deal of John Witherspoon’s influence in America came from the course he taught at Princeton on moral philosophy, the lectures of which were published after his death. In the 18th and 19th centuries, moral philosophy, a key part of college instruction, included topics as diverse as epistemology, politics, ethics, and the right ordering of society.
The National Audit Office has confirmed that it will be looking into the role of the Charity Commission and the Home Office as part of an investigation into the funding of defunct LGBT charity Broken Rainbow.
In a statement, a spokesperson from the NAO said the investigation would seek to "establish the facts around the collapse of Broken Rainbow, including the financial management of the charity, Home Office oversight and the clarity of grant agreements, and the role of the Charity Commission and other public sector bodies".
The Church of Scotland has called for a change in law to ensure that it is never acceptable to beat a child.
Rev Dr Richard Frazer, convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland addressed the Scottish Parliament at a seminar in Glasgow.
Dr Frazer recommended that Scottish Government should remove "justifiable assault" from the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003.
The number of unwed couples living together in the UK has more than doubled in the last two decades.
Some 3.3 million are now cohabiting - up from just 1.5 million in 1996, according to new figures.
Although marriage is still the most common arrangement for couples, numbers have remained flat over the period and living together out of wedlock is increasingly seen as an 'alternative'.
A religious education teacher who posted Islamophobic comments on social media and attended a march organised by the far-right group Britain First has been struck off.
Nicholas Hall, who taught at a comprehensive school in Leicester, admitted he had attended a march on one or more occasions, and also admitted posting a number of intolerant messages.
Almost a quarter of religious parents are not passing on their faith to their children for fear they will be alienated at school, a survey has revealed.
The poll found that one in four (23 per cent) were worried that their offspring might be sidelined by friends if they passed on their religious views.
A similar proportion (26 per cent) of parents said they were concerned that their children “may have questions I could not answer”.
Children as young as seven are being investigated for sexting in schools.
A total of 1,581 pupils out of 5,032 in Nottinghamshire said they had received a message with unwanted sexual suggestions.
The county's police force also classed 64 sex attacks in the area's schools in the four years between 2011 and 2015.