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Here’s your news round up from The National Pulse on August 28th, 2023. France has announced a ban on Muslim girls wearing the abaya – an Islamic robe designed to be loose-fitting and cover one’s body– on the grounds that the clothing contravenes the nation’s secular-based education. The ban will come into force on September 4. BBC staff have admitted to digitally altering a photograph of a

In what is being hailed as a “landmark victory” for religious freedom in America, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) broke the law when they imposed “progressive discipline” on postal carrier Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian, after he refused to work on Sundays. “Gerald Groff is an Evangelical Christian who believes for religious reasons

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection on Sunday, cementing his grip on power. First elected in 2003 as prime minister, Erdogan has reshaped Turkey from its secular moderate democratic system to a more religious and increasingly authoritarian power structure. Erdogan’s rule has complicated Turkey’s relationships with Western leaders—he is currently impeding Sweden’s entrance

There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans.

It is a secular axiom that secularism and secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in irrationality.

This is what almost every college professor