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    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
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      Freedom of speech needs to be valued at all times as the author’s long career lays out

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Attack on Salman Rushdie underlines threats to free speech

      Freedom of expression needs to be defended with even more vehemence

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Salman Rushdie
      Blinken condemns ‘despicable’ Iranian response to Salman Rushdie attack

      Author who spent years in hiding because of fatwa is in critical condition but able to speak

    • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
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      Suspect charged with attempted murder and assault of writer who spent years in hiding because of Iranian fatwa

    • Monday, 18 February, 2019
      Gideon Rachman
      Islamophobia and the new clash of civilisations

      The Muslim and non-Muslim worlds are becoming increasingly intolerant of each other

    • Tuesday, 12 June, 2018
      Frederick Studemann
      Bavaria crosses a line to fend off the far-right

      The state is accused of violating the principle it should be neutral on faith

    • Tuesday, 29 May, 2018
      EU judges uphold curbs on halal slaughter
    • Friday, 6 April, 2018
      For Indonesia’s Jews, holy days highlight their precarious lives

      The religion goes unrecognised in world’s largest Muslim-majority nation

    • Friday, 29 December, 2017
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    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
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      India’s partition holds a lesson for today’s leaders

      Divisions stoked to serve political aims take on lives of their own

    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2017
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      Egypt’s Copts keep the faith in the fight against Isis

      The Islamist group has declared war on Egyptian Christians, hoping to take advantage of rising religious tension in the country

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2017
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      Indonesia: A nation’s tolerance on trial

      Religious and ethnic tensions on the rise as Jakarta governor fights blasphemy charge

    • Friday, 14 October, 2016
      Syriza at odds with Orthodox clergy over religious teaching plans

      Premier Tsipras treads carefully on reform as Greek church holds political sway

    • Friday, 16 September, 2016
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      How France’s ban on the swimwear became a test case for what it takes to maintain liberal values

    • Sunday, 21 August, 2016
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      Covering up divisions will not help French society to heal

      France needs an honest discussion of what secularism come to means, writes Delphine Strauss

    • Sunday, 29 May, 2016
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      Taking the party out of the mosque in Tunisia

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    • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
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    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2016
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      The plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities

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    • Monday, 28 March, 2016
      Fatima Bhutto
      Easter carnage in a park delivers Pakistan’s fatal diagnosis

      The state has abdicated its role in education, health, and basic amenities, writes Fatima Bhutto

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