Catholic bishop tells a Representative what to do.… Read the rest
Raw Nerve Apologizes to Peter Tatchell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Mr Tatchell is not Islamophobic and is not “part of the Islamophobia industry.” Nor is OutRage!’… Read the rest
Pseudoscience is not a valid educational choice
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA curious working definition of ‘diversity’ now includes funnelling public money to an occult society.… Read the rest
Robert Wright on Dennett at Beliefnet
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDennett ‘declared that life on earth shows signs of having a higher purpose.’ Not.… Read the rest
Tim Sandefur on Robert Wright on Dennett
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.… Read the rest
Tehran Plans to Execute Protesters
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe news of death sentences sparked immediate condemnation from international human rights groups.… Read the rest
The War on Women: Afghanistan and Eastern Congo
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere are certain realities we should not lose sight of and certain people we should not sell out.… Read the rest
Susan Haack on ‘Irreconcilable Differences’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBetween science and law.… Read the rest
Polish woman was refused an abortion
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDespite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind. … Read the rest
Karen Armstrong explains about God.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’… Read the rest
Controversy over Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRamadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.… Read the rest
IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.… Read the rest
Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”… Read the rest
Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”… Read the rest
David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.… Read the rest
Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.… Read the rest
Letter from a Birmingham jail
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’… Read the rest
Fadela Amara and ‘Ni putes ni soumises’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.… Read the rest
Christine Toomey on gender genocide
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFar from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite. … Read the rest
Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA growing number of girls and women are being locked in rooms by their families, with a gun, poison or a noose, and left there until they kill themselves. … Read the rest