“The consumer society was laid down by the late Steve Jobs coming down the mountain with two tablets.” Only Moses is supposed to do that.… Read the rest

Raped and impregnated; imprisoned for being raped; threatened with death; may marry her rapist.… Read the rest

A law meant to protect Afghan women from abusive practices such as rape and forced marriage is rarely enforced.… Read the rest

A child born of adultery (non Islamic marriage) shall not belong to the adulterer. (1167. Civil code) Marriage before puberty with the permission of the male Guardian is legal and possible. (1041.Civil code)… Read the rest

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a terrorist chief arrested for the brutal attacks in India, is still using a cell phone while in prison. Watch out.… Read the rest

After two campus police officers sprayed seated protesters with pepper spray during a demonstration aligned with Occupy Wall Street.… Read the rest

Ordinary citizens are poor, hungry and under-informed. The government can’t provide decent education or health services. Rape is endemic in eastern provinces.

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In 2003, northern Nigeria’s Muslim leaders leaders opposed vaccinations, claiming they could cause infertility.… Read the rest

No one, but he runs the show anyway.… Read the rest

We are told we will learn “How to use inter-disciplinary scientific information in combination with knowledge gained from sensing, feeling and intuition”.… Read the rest

The men of the committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice will interfere to force women to cover their eyes, a spokessheik said.… Read the rest

PC refuses to accept the failings of alternative medicine, despite compelling evidence that it provides little benefit to patients, because he is ideologically fixated.… Read the rest

It’s an essential fact of life here: women have simply disappeared from the city space, as if it were solely inhabited by men.… Read the rest

Via a bold thought experiment: “Imagine, for a moment, that you are an Iranian mullah.” A mullah? Why a mullah? Why not, say, a woman?… Read the rest

Benetton said the idea was to combat hatred, but the Vatican isn’t having any of that blasphemous nonsense.… Read the rest

Stop paying specialist homeopathic hospitals, stop buying expensive homeopathic remedies, require patients to consider a placebo instead.… Read the rest

What he actually does in his book is plain old secular moral reasoning — and not very well — but he claims he’s using science to distinguish right from wrong.… Read the rest

Here, Jewish girls as young as six, wearing skirts  below the knee and shirts to the elbow, are being targeted by the Haredi, called  ”pritzas” (prostitutes).… Read the rest

“The extremely aggressive campaign against religion being waged by the New Atheists, led by Richard Dawkins” is why people hate science.… Read the rest

There are long-term career consequences to gender stereotypes.… Read the rest