Europe

Why Tolerate Religion

London, UK: Brian Leiter’s book asks probing questions about why in the tolerance stakes the religious is elevated above the secular A young Sikh boy goes to school wearing a ceremonial dagger – the kirpan – and thereby causes the ...

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UK Parliamentary Debate ~ “The Death Penalty and Human Rights Violations in India”

UK: The Kesri Lehar petition asking for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in India was debated in the Main Chamber of the House of Commons on Thursday, 28th February 2013. The two and a half hour debate, started with ...

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Stoke Poges Council calls meeting on future of Khalsa school

London,UK: PEOPLE have been invited to a meeting about plans for a free school after a planning application was submitted. Stoke Poges Parish Council has called a public meeting in the Village Centre on Thursday, March 14 at 8pm, to ...

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‘I just wanted to be the class clown’: Newcastle man convicted for ripping off Sikh’s turban as a dare

Ashley Cicatello.

UK: A 25-YEAR-OLD man has been convicted of religiously aggravated assault after ripping off a Sikh man’s turban for a dare. Ashley Cicatello, pictured below, had spent the afternoon in the pub with his mates when they spotted the victim ...

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