Category: Defending the Right to Blaspheme

Without free expression, the other rights we revere stand on quicksand. Religious ideas and leaders must be as subject as any others to criticism and even satire.

Blasphemy laws threaten religious freedom in many countries; the situation is most severe in Pakistan.

Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.

Banglaesh’s best-known critic of all religions reflects on her new exile.

How did International Blasphemy Rights Day begin? Recollections of one who was there.