The writer is a woman, so accepting a signed book from her is a criminal act.… Read the rest
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Cultural Events ‘On the Rise’ in Saudi Arabia 
Mar 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sort of. But only if you start with very low standards.… Read the rest
BBC Finds ‘Old Sensitivities’ in Sudan
Mar 8th, 2009 |
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Joyous smiles of religious fervour – the Mahdi – Gordon – Churchill – Islam – colonialism. See?… Read the rest
Hindu Fundamentalists Attack Women
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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Sarah Aboobacker, a Muslim social critic in Mangalore, says all fundamentalists want to control women.… Read the rest
Mary Kenny Declares Atheism Immoral
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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Catholic church in Poland ‘upheld moral values in opposition to the official culture of atheistic materialism.’… Read the rest
Namazie and Ahadi at European Parliament
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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To discuss the women’s rights situation in Iran, concerns about execution cases and Sharia in Britain.… Read the rest
Hitchens on UN Resolution 62/154
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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The OIC is demanding through the UN that Islam be officially shielded from any criticism of itself.… Read the rest
Vatican Defends Brazilian Archbishop
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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Cardinal says ‘the twins’ had ‘a right to live.’ … Read the rest
Anti-sharia Demo in London
Mar 7th, 2009 |
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‘Demand one secular law and an end to cultural relativism and racism, and defend universal rights.’… Read the rest
Moral squalor
Mar 7th, 2009 11:58 am | By Ophelia BensonThe Vatican demonstrates its moral ugliness again.
… Read the restA senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help…Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re told Italian paper La Stampa that the twins “had the right to live” and attacks on Brazil’s Catholic Church were unfair…Cardinal Re, who heads the Roman Catholic Church’s Congregation for Bishops and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told La Stampa that the archbishop had been right to excommunicate the mother and doctors. “It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated,” he
Say what you like provided you respect beliefs
Mar 7th, 2009 11:02 am | By Ophelia BensonHitchens ponders the UN resolution ‘Combating defamation of religions.’
… Read the restParagraph 5 “expresses its deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism,” while Paragraph 6 “[n]otes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001.”…In Paragraph 6, an obvious attempt is being made to confuse ethnicity with confessional allegiance. Indeed this insinuation (incidentally dismissing the faith-based criminality of 9/11 as merely “tragic”) is in fact essential to the entire scheme. If religion and race can be run together, then the condemnations that racism axiomatically attracts can be surreptitiously extended to religion,
Sunny Hundal on Violence Against Women
Mar 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There are deep-rooted cultural traditions that value men more than women, and this has consequences.… Read the rest
Barmaid Says She Doesn’t Hate God
Mar 6th, 2009 |
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Jesus and Mo hate leprechauns though.… Read the rest
Black Triangle on Meningitis Vaccine Scare
Mar 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Independent runs a scaremongering headline on a non-story. Brilliant.… Read the rest
Blair Did God a Lot
Mar 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Blair had a team of ‘faith advisors’ who checked that his politics were in line with his religious beliefs.… Read the rest
Kenyan Human Rights Activist Killed
Mar 6th, 2009 |
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Oscar Kamau Kingara was known for his criticisms of the Kenyan police, whom he accused of torture and murder.… Read the rest
Brazil: Health Minister Rebukes the Church
Mar 6th, 2009 |
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‘This religion, wrongly saying it is defending a life, puts another life in danger that is as important as any other.’… Read the rest
Dawkins on Purpose
Mar 6th, 2009 |
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The brain is a complex adaptive system with a purpose that emerges from its developmental history.… Read the rest
Grayling on Polkinghorne and Beale
Mar 6th, 2009 |
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A scandal that the Royal Society is allowing its premises to be used for the launch of this book.… Read the rest
Church Tries to Block Raped Child’s Abortion
Mar 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Brazil: 9-year-old girl was pregnant with twins; the Catholic church tried to prevent an abortion.… Read the rest
