Beaten, deprived of meals, company, light, any book but the Koran. AI fears for her life.… Read the rest
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Hidden Motives Behind Cartoon Riots in Pakistan 
Feb 18th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Aamer Ahmed Khan says message may be aimed at liberal government rather than Danish cartoonists.… Read the rest
Ten Killed in Libya in Cartoon Riot
Feb 18th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Berlusconi said policy of Italian government was ‘one of respect for the Islamic religion.’ … Read the rest
Cartoons not Published for Fear of Retaliation
Feb 18th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The prattle about sensitivity is mere smokescreen.… Read the rest
Book
Feb 16th, 2006 6:19 pm | By Ophelia BensonI’ve had some emails asking what’s going on with Why Truth Matters, which means there are probably other people who wonder, who haven’t emailed; so I might as well tell you what I know, which is almost nothing. I thought the book was published and about to be in shops and sent out by online places, but the Amazon UK site says the book is ‘usually dispatched within 1 to 3 months.’ JS received one copy on February 3, and two more (I think two) on February 11. Those three plus the editor’s copy are the only ones I know to exist. I have received none. That’s all I know; I’m not kept informed.… Read the rest
Muslim Cultural Institute Dares Ahmadinejad
Feb 16th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To visit Auschwitz. ‘In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the courage.’… Read the rest
Neil Berry Breaks the News
Feb 16th, 2006 |
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Tony Blair in cahoots with Jews.… Read the rest
Sharia in Malaysia
Feb 16th, 2006 |
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Very difficult and risky publicly to renounce Islam, and above all, to renounce it in favour of secularism. … Read the rest
Not Very Veiled Threats
Feb 16th, 2006 |
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Repercussions, deeper grave, that sort of thing.… Read the rest
Irving Trial Tests Free Speech
Feb 16th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Historian argues Germany and Austria have a moral obligation to fight Holocaust denial.… Read the rest
UN Calls for Closure of Guantanamo
Feb 16th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
One investigator said detention of inmates for years without charge amounted to arbitrary detention. … Read the rest
Peter Strawson
Feb 16th, 2006 |
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Jane O’Grady in the Guardian.… Read the rest
Creeping Sharia
Feb 15th, 2006 9:39 pm | By Ophelia BensonThis is good – every day that I go to the mailbox and don’t find the books that should be here by now and that I’m quite (and by quite I mean violently) keen to have, my mood becomes fouler and more bitter, so that’s very good for doing an intemperate N&C. Lovely.
The Staggers does the predictable. Surprise surprise.
… Read the restThe New Statesman has never been afraid to ruffle feathers. Thus it is fair to ask why we, like others in the media, have refrained from publishing the Danish cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad. The reason is simple: we are prepared to take great risks and to cause offence, but only in the name of good journalism. By good journalism
Child Abuse
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Evangelist trains 2,300 students to reject most geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology as lies.… Read the rest
Ohio Expected to Rein In Class Linked to ID
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A reversal in Ohio could signal turn against ID since Kitzmiller decision.… Read the rest
Press Hands a Victory to Creeping Sharia
Feb 15th, 2006 |
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UK and US media have decided it is not their job to help you understand this story.… Read the rest
The Economist Spurns Self-consorship
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When freedom of speech is under threat of violence, job of governments should be to defend it without reservation. … Read the rest
New Statesman Bravely Self-censors
Feb 15th, 2006 |
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‘There is nothing brave about causing gratuitous offence.’… Read the rest
