In an article about blasphemy laws, RFP director Tom Farr made the case that religious freedom can prevent violent religious extremism, and asked readers to imagine a world in which Osama Bin-Laden had grown up in a free society, and exposed to a wider variety of religious ideas.

In a lecture delivered on May 8, RFP scholar Roger Trigg explored the links between the increasing marginalization of religion in many western societies, and philosophers of religion who reduce religious belief to something subjective, which can not be established as universally true or false.

Tom Farr addressed the question of whether there are limits to religious freedom on which religions can agree at the 2013 Common Word Conference, held at Georgetown University on April 24. Video of his presentation can be found here.

In an article entitled "Is Religious Freedom Special?" Roger Trigg argues that religious freedom is not merely special pleading for religion, but vital for the preservation of free societies, and increasingly under threat in Europe.