“Perpetual pregnancies destroyed my health, and my indiscriminate acquiescence to my husband’s every whim transformed him from a loving father into a tantrum-throwing tyrant.”… Read the rest

“I do not consider it a human rights violation because, according to our religious teachings, it has been divinely ordained.”… Read the rest

She fled to Sweden and has been openly and vocally active in organizations that oppose the Islamic Republic regime.… Read the rest

It is often the widows, or the older, poorer or disabled women and those unprotected by male relatives who are most vulnerable to witchcraft accusations in Burkina Fasso.… Read the rest

The American public is shockingly ignorant of the founders’ determination not to establish a Christian government.… Read the rest

The rebels claim Gadhafi’s forces are stocked with mercenaries from various African nations, but there is growing concern skin colour is all the proof some rebels need.… Read the rest

The thinking classes’ timid silence on Islamism cedes the critical ground to the  far right, allowing Islamists to cry Islamophobia and render themselves immune.… Read the rest

Girl’s T shirt said:  “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me.”… Read the rest

To see British politicians adopting the Christian right’s misogynistic and anti-sex attitudes is frankly terrifying; a lot scarier than an earthquake sent from God.… Read the rest

Women have fought hard for the right not to have their bodies controlled by somebody else’s God; so have lesbians and gays. We might need to start fighting again.… Read the rest

AI has obtained the names of more than 1,800 people reported to have died or been killed during or in connection with the protests since mid-March.

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“Society should never condone or accept or promote, give fuel to this kind of madness,” Eduardo Grutzky said.… Read the rest

It’s hard to believe that in 2011, people are still being killed because they are believed to be witches. But that’s exactly whats happening in Nigeria, and other parts of Africa.… Read the rest

All the so-called “new atheists” are tarred with the same brush, and treated in the same cavalier fashion.… Read the rest

The girls, 15, 17 and 18, were reported to have been raped by Gaddafi’s soldiers; their father killed them “to lift the shame on his family.”… Read the rest

“The only person Cheney does not seem to find fault with is Cheney.”… Read the rest

150,000 people there have died in religious war, so more faith is just what they need. Go Tony.… Read the rest

The macho Jesus movement has been bolstered by books like No More Mr Christian Nice Guy and The Church Impotent – the Feminisation of Christianity.… Read the rest

The risks of hypocrisy seem forever invisible to the politicized Christians, for
whom sufficient proof of faith consists of loud and unambiguous declarations.… Read the rest

Campaign says she was kidding. Oh rilly?… Read the rest