‘Let us hope the schoolchildren visitors are properly taught about the elegant swimming-pool at Auschwitz…’… Read the rest
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Pamela Bone 1940-2008 
Apr 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She was fearless on matters of politics, human rights, justice and religion… Read the rest
Pamela Bone
Apr 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bone wrote recently on what she saw as the betrayal by Western feminists of their Muslim sisters. … Read the rest
Simon Blackburn on Eight Myths
Apr 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What is usually known as culture is a set of symbols enabling people on the inside to recognise and dislike those on the outside.… Read the rest
Hell for Women in Iraq
Apr 28th, 2008 |
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Women are harassed if they appear in the streets, educational institutions, or work places.… Read the rest
The Folly of GM-phobia
Apr 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
With the Earth’s population soaring, it will be the poor who go hungry, not the eco-warriors destroying modified crops.… Read the rest
The Democratiya Interviews
Apr 28th, 2008 | By Max DunbarThe online magazine Democratiya was set up by writers and academics in 2005 as a reaction to the status-quo left consensus that dominated liberal thought from the provincial dinner party to the pages of the British Guardian. From its founding statement:
… Read the restWhen over eight million Iraqis voted in democratic elections in January 2005, at polling stations guarded by American and other foreign troops, emerging to dance for joy, their purple fingers aloft, only for Britain’s leading liberal newspaper to sneer that the election was ‘at best irrelevant’ it was clear that something had gone terribly awry. When Iraq’s heroic free trade unionists were called ‘collaborators’ and ‘quislings’, while their torturers and murderers were hailed as a ‘liberation movement’ one
Saudi Blogger Released From Jail
Apr 27th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Fouad al-Farhan had used his website to criticise alleged corruption and call for democratic reforms. … Read the rest
Creeping Islamization in Turkey
Apr 27th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Most people are more religious these days. They don’t want to eat pork, and they don’t let others produce it either.’… Read the rest
Obscene Desserts on Limits, and Religious Limits
Apr 27th, 2008 |
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Humans don’t know everything, but does that mean religion can help? No.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo Have a Good Moment
Apr 27th, 2008 |
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Good night boys.… Read the rest
Charles Darwin Starts a Blog
Apr 27th, 2008 |
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‘Well there I was minding my own business in the Cafe of the Natural History Museum…’… Read the rest
Army Major Threatens Atheist Soldier
Apr 27th, 2008 |
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‘People like you are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!’… Read the rest
Oh comrades come rally
Apr 27th, 2008 11:48 am | By Ophelia BensonI know it’s old news that Seumas Milne is a buffoon – but all the same…
… Read the restThese are good times to be in the “moderate Muslim” business. If you press the right buttons on integration and “radicalisation” and hold your tongue on western foreign policy, there are rich pickings to be had…Latest in the ring is the “counter-extremism thinktank”, the Quilliam Foundation…The foundation – named after a 19th century British Muslim – is the creature of Husain and a couple of other one-time members of the radical, non-violent Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. All three are straight out of the cold war defectors’ mould described in Saturday’s Guardian by the playwright David Edgar, trading heavily on their former associations and travelling
Maajid Nawaz Replies to Ziauddin Sardar
Apr 26th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sardar’s attack on the Quilliam Foundation was ill-informed in a number of ways.… Read the rest
Sue Blackmore on Papal Social Calls
Apr 26th, 2008 |
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Sorry, we’ll be out that day.… Read the rest
Seumas Milne is Slightly Confused
Apr 26th, 2008 |
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He seems to think misogynist homophobic theocrats are right-on and their opponents are wicked.… Read the rest
A Mild Critique of Leon Wieseltier
Apr 26th, 2008 |
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‘Wieseltier has a meandering, conceptually confused, pointless essay in The New Republic…’… Read the rest
Hitchens on Ratzinger
Apr 25th, 2008 |
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Reporters who can get off their knees might ask the pope if he is conducting his own foreign policy and, if so, in consultation with whom?… Read the rest
Court Rules Doctors Can Transfuse Infants
Apr 25th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and refused to give their consent. … Read the rest
