Tag: Tony Blair
Dear atheists: most of us don’t care what you think
Charles Lewis December 7, 2010.
Print: National Post
Charles Lewis, a Christian from Canada and writer for the National Post, just doesn’t care what Christopher Hitchens thinks.
Religion - a force for good? Tony Blair debates atheist Christopher Hitchens
By: Pat Hewitt, The Canadian Press November 25, 2010.
Print: Winnipeg Free Press
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to debate Christopher Hitchens in Toronto on whether religion is a force for good in the world.
Violent Criminal Spared From Prison Because He Was Religious
By Matthew Moore February 3, 2010.
Print: Telegraph
A secular campaign group has lodged a formal complaint against Cherie Blair for allegedly sparing a violent criminal from jail because he believed in God. The wife of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and a current judge who sits under the name Cherie Booth QC, said that she would suspend Shamso Miah’s prison sentence because he was a “religious man.”
Tony Blair “profoundly wrong” to imagine religion as a peacemaking tool
National Secular Society September 10, 2009.
Print: National Secular Society
Tony Blair profoundly wrong to imagine religion as a peacemaking tool. Tony Blair’s claim that religion can bring peace and prosperity to the world has been challenged as profoundly wrong and counterproductive this week by the President of the National Secular Society.
It’s not religion, stupid
By Mehdi Hasan June 17, 2009.
Print: The Guardian
Religion, in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace – and it is naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.
Tony Blair’s latest “faith” initiative is likely to do more harm than good, says NSS
June 9, 2009.
Print: National Secular Society
Tony Blair’s latest “faith” initiative is likely to do more harm than good, says NSS
Blair’s ‘religious literacy’ call
Sean Coughlan June 8, 2009.
Print: BBC
Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation launches a school project with a call for the need for understanding religions in a globalised world.
Muslim group Tony Blair promised to ban calls for ‘jihad’ at London rally
John Bingham and Tom Whitehead April 17, 2009.
Telegraph.co.uk
A leader of a radical Muslim group which Tony Blair promised to ban four years ago has called on followers to support jihad against Israel at a rally in London.
