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  • Friday, 19 August, 2022
    FT Swamp Notes
    Je Suis sometimes Salman Rushdie Premium content

    Freedom of speech needs to be valued at all times as the author’s long career lays out

    Salman Rushdie
  • 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

    Salman Rushdie at a news conference before the presentation of his book ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’ at the Niemeyer Center in Aviles, northern Spain, in 2015
  • 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

    Salman Rushdie
  • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
    Salman Rushdie
    Author Salman Rushdie stabbed at event in New York state

    Suspect charged with attempted murder and assault of writer who spent years in hiding because of Iranian fatwa

    Salman Rushdie
  • 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

    FILE PHOTO: A flag with the picture of King Ludwig II is seen next to the crucifix commemorating the death of the Bavarian King Ludwig II in Berg at lake Starnberg, southern Germany, June 17, 2007. Ludwig II of Bavaria (also known as the Fairy-tale King and Mad King Ludwig), the builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle, was diagnosed as mentally ill and incarcerated in Berg Castle. On June 13, 1886, his doctor arrived to take him for a walk. A few hours later they were both found drowned in the lake Starnberg. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo
  • 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

    Fonny Ratumbanua holds up a piece of matzah, unleavened flatbread, at a Seder service in Bekasi, a suburb of Jakarta
  • Friday, 29 December, 2017
    FT Film17 min
    FT Feature: Europe and the veil

    The FT's Roula Khalaf lifts the veil on Europe's attitude to the hijab

  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
    The FT View
    India’s partition holds a lesson for today’s leaders

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

    TOPSHOT - Pakistani Rangers (black) and Indian Border Security Force personnel (brown) perform perform during the daily beating of the retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post, some 35kms west of Amritsar on August 14, 2017. Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14, one day before India's independence day on August 15. / AFP PHOTO / NARINDER NANUNARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2017
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    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
    The Big ReadBen Bland
    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

    A Greek orthodox priest takes part in a rally at Syntagma square in front of the Greek parliament building in Athens, Greece, on Sunday, June 21, 2015. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has made an offer to European Union leaders he described as a "definitive" solution ahead of Monday's emergency summit. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 16 September, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Why women’s bodies are a political battleground again

    How France’s ban on the swimwear became a test case for what it takes to maintain liberal values

    A woman walks into the sea wearing hijab, in the Plage des Catalans, Marseille, August 2016
  • Sunday, 21 August, 2016
    Delphine Strauss
    Covering up divisions will not help French society to heal

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

    Tunisian women, one (R) wearing a "burkini", a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, swim on August 16, 2016 at Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, north-east of the capital Tunis. / AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAIDFETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images
  • Sunday, 29 May, 2016
    The FT View
    Taking the party out of the mosque in Tunisia

    Nahda has shown the way to compromise by scrapping Islamism

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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
    Recruitment
    Interview: Indarjit Singh, Crossbench life peer

    First Sikh member of the House of Lords says it is human nature to want to feel superior

    Dr Indarjit Singh, Britain's first turbaned Sikh to sit in the House of Lords
  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2016
    The FT View
    The plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities

    Western governments should speak up for the country’s Christians

    epaselect epa05232899 Relatives of the victims of a suicide bomb blast cry outside a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, 27 March 2016. At least 52 people inlcuding women and children were killed while dozens injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted a recreational park in Lahore.  EPA/RAHAT DAR
  • 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

    epaselect epa05232899 Relatives of the victims of a suicide bomb blast cry outside a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, 27 March 2016. At least 52 people inlcuding women and children were killed while dozens injured in a suicide bomb attack that targeted a recreational park in Lahore.  EPA/RAHAT DAR
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