The report seems little more than an exercise by the Hindu Forum to make some noise.… Read the rest
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Norm Geras and Nick Cohen Debate Front Page 
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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And give up in exasperation.… Read the rest
Manly Men
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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Manliness needs women to be inferior and subordinate, and cute when angry.… Read the rest
Hindus ‘Yearn to be Understood as a Community’
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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Everyone else is a community, in fact the community, so Hindus want to be the community too.… Read the rest
Letters Reject Communalism
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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‘Racial and religious divides can go too far and lead us away from good community relations.’… Read the rest
Pastors Charge Government With Christianophobia
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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‘The latest discrimination against Christians is the new law called the Sexual Orientation Regulations.’… Read the rest
Reliance on MCB May be Convenient But…
Jul 13th, 2006 |
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Government is making a mistake if it hands the franchise of dialogue over to a single organisation.… Read the rest
Going to School
Jul 12th, 2006 10:50 pm | By Ophelia BensonWhat life is like when there is no rule of law, no security, no strong-enough central government, no one able to keep the strong and cruel and violent and selfish from preying on everyone else. Thrasymachus world. Thug world, warlord world, Mafia world, feudal world, give me that world, extortion world. Do what I say or I’ll hit you with a stick or cut you with a knife or shoot you world. Nightmare world.
… Read the restEscalating attacks by the Taliban and other armed groups on teachers, students and schools in Afghanistan are shutting down schools and depriving another generation of an education, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Schools for girls have been hit particularly hard,
Human Rights Watch on ‘Night Letters’
Jul 12th, 2006 |
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3,000 (8%) of the 37,743 officially enrolled students in Zabul were girls in March 2006.… Read the rest
HRW on Threats to Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
Jul 12th, 2006 |
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HRW documented 204 incidents of attacks on teachers, students and schools since January 2005. … Read the rest
Aaronovitch on ‘Mission Creep’ in Afghanistan
Jul 12th, 2006 |
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You go in to get rid of the Taleban and you end up risking lives just to educate women.… Read the rest
France Observes Dreyfus Centenary
Jul 12th, 2006 |
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‘The fight against the dark forces of intolerance and hate is never definitively won.’… Read the rest
Indian Newspapers React to Mumbai Bombings
Jul 12th, 2006 |
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‘We almost never apprehend those who kill in the name of politics and faith…’… Read the rest
Logic
Jul 11th, 2006 8:45 pm | By Ophelia BensonThis is an interesting bit of reasoning.
The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mosque in Kandahar was succinct. “Girls going to school need to be careful for their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered then the blame will be on their parents.”
That’s good, isn’t it? If we put acid on their faces, the blame will be on their parents. Well of course it will – if it hadn’t been for their parents, the girls wouldn’t be there to have faces that Talibanists can put acid on. Furthermore, if the parents hadn’t fed them all those years, again the girls wouldn’t be there to have faces. If the parents hadn’t … Read the rest
World This Weekend [audio]
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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Muslims who don’t want to join the MCB have a hard time getting a hearing.… Read the rest
Francis Wheen on the Poet of Dialectics
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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Das Kapital a literary masterpiece: Gothic novel, Victorian melodrama, Greek tragedy, Swiftian satire.… Read the rest
Bombs Kill At Least 130 on Mumbai Trains
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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7 near-simultaneous blasts went off during rush hour in the suburbs.… Read the rest
The Taliban War on Knowledge
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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‘Girls going to school need to be careful.’ If Taliban put acid on their faces, blame their parents.… Read the rest
Hindus Unhappy at Being Called Asians
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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Identity, race, community, faith, community groups, faith communities, blrrghhhakkk.… Read the rest
Kenan Malik on a Bad Bargain in the Mosque
Jul 11th, 2006 |
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Self-appointed community leaders with no democratic mandate gain power.… Read the rest
