Month: April 2010

Between science and law.

Despite warnings that having a baby could make her go blind.

‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’

Ramadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.

Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.

An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”

The theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”

The problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.

For all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.

‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’

“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.

Far from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite.

A growing number of girls and women are being locked in rooms by their families, with a gun, poison or a noose, and left there until they kill themselves.

19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.

For protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’

One provision makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.

Head of group said the women were taken into “our custody because they spoke unfavourably on radio against FGM”

The female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice.

The group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.

Rape, incest, sexual abuse; physical and verbal abuse; women have no rights; rudimentary education; animal abuse.