The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is a Dublin-based pressure group which campaigns for “women’s rights, equality, tolerance, pluralism and secularism”. US billionaire George Soros reportedly gave a grant of 53,000 euros to Liam Herrick, when he took over at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in 2017. The money was paid through Soros’s New York-based Open Society... 

Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country, should have a constitution based on Islam rather than a secular constitution, the speaker of the Turkish parliament has said in a speech. Secularism has been the cornerstone of modern Turkey for decades. The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, reshaped the collapsing Islamic Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. He founded the state on Turkish... 

A secularism scandal is raging in France, after a mayor in a northwestern town introduced a “pork or nothing” principle at school, even for 27 students who will get no meat substitute. The rule will apply starting from January 1 in the town of Sargé-lès-Le Mans, and may apply to Jewish pupils as well, though there aren’t any in this particular school. Mayor Marcel Mortreau bases his decision...