Deep theological questions are raised, then callously brushed aside.… Read the rest
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Saudi Arabia: Stop Trials for ‘Insulting’ Islam 
May 16th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
HRW says courts in Jeddah should dismiss cases against a Saudi web critic and a Turkish barber.… Read the rest
Canon Says Sharia Will Influence UK Law
May 16th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I don’t feel threatened by this, but the worry comes when the aims of faith are compromised by the law of the land.’… Read the rest
Pakistan: Doctor Charged with ‘Blasphemy’
May 16th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dr Robin Sarder is currently in jail.… Read the rest
Science Provides a Creation Myth
May 16th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Let a hundred flowers bloom, tralalala.… Read the rest
Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe
May 16th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Warning: this is hard to read without falling apart.… Read the rest
Channel 4 Wins ‘Undercover Mosque’ Case
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
West Midlands Police and Crown Prosecution Service apologize and pay £50,000 damages.… Read the rest
Stop Honoricide Campaign
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In memory of every mother, daughter, sister murdered to protect family honor.… Read the rest
Think-tank Launched in Pakistan
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An independent think-tank to address issues faced by the people between the Oxus and Indus Rivers.… Read the rest
Zanu PF is Burning Maize as Zimbabwe Starves
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Food was used as a tool for retribution and punishment by Zanu PF after the 2005 elections.… Read the rest
Very Deep Stuff
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Links are a paradox uniting the full and empty space between nodes in the network.… Read the rest
Deep Stuff
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Subjectivity is the lens and connector through which the spatio-temporal dislocation gets focused and bridged. … Read the rest
Nesrine Malik on Islam’s Refusenik Women
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They have ‘unsavoury views about Islam,’ they ‘nail their colours to the west’s mast of values.’… Read the rest
Einstein Had ‘Rid Himself of Belief in Atheism’
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because he admired Freud; ‘if we are Freudians, we have a tragic view of life.’ Uh…… Read the rest
Normblog on a Revisionist Account of Atheism
May 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To be an atheist, on this revisionist account of what atheism is, you have in fact to be a fool.… Read the rest
Nasty
May 15th, 2008 11:42 am | By Ophelia BensonThe tendency to lump together Muslim females in exile who have rather unsavoury views about Islam makes the voices of moderate females difficult to hear…Male exiles from the faith do not seem to attract the same sympathetic open-armed treatment as the damsel in distress…The most prominent of the “refuseniks”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji and Wafa Sultan have caused a stir for allegedly being “brave enough” to criticise Islam and nail their colours to the west’s mast of values.
Interesting scare quotes on ‘brave enough’ – since all three women mentioned receive regular (and sincere) death threats. What exactly is Nesrine Malik expressing incredulity about, one wonders?
… Read the restWafa Sultan’s debut on al-Jazeera , where she
Jesus and Mo Don’t Believe in the Atheists’ God
May 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
God cannot be empirically investigated, he is ineffable, beyond our capacity. Which is handy.… Read the rest
Can U Read Kant?
May 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To Mark Bauerlein, the present is a good time to be young only if you don’t mind a tendency toward empty-headedness. … Read the rest
Irish Bishops Say: Too Many Catholic Schools
May 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
92% of the country’s primary schools are managed by the Catholic Church… Read the rest
PBS and Public History
May 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pete Seeger tells the truth in his autobiography, but a new documentary is evasive.… Read the rest
