How do we promote tolerance and protect free speech in a time where organised groups openly, and others clandestinely, exploit our liberal values to oppose our aims, sometimes with the deadliest of means?

On 12 October, the Huffington Post UK's very own Mehdi Hasan, the site's political director, debated Times columnist David Aaronovitch on free speech...

Mehdi Hasan, political director of The Huffington Post UK, called for a crackdown on the culture of Islamophobia and argued freedom of speech was not ...

Last week the German court in Cologne ruled that circumcision by parents of sons is an unlawful act. This ruling will be enforced even if performed by a qualified doctor,making them liable to prosecution.

Has the anti-racist debate really become so closed-minded, divisive and fearful? That a white person cannot question any practice or ideology, if it is prevalent amongst people of colour? Does that mean to criticise porn one has to be a porn star? To criticise rape one has to have been raped?

As Anders Breivik, the far-right Norwegian singularly responsible for the massacre of 77 people begins his trial it is perhaps astounding that it has gone ahead at such a symbolic time; symbolism that Breivik has wasted no time in exploiting.