The aim of the hearings is to improve the treatment, support and compensation currently given to victims.
Month: September 2010
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Court rules Babri Masjid site should be divided
Muslims would get one third, Hindus another third, and the remainder going to a minority Hindu sect.
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Fake ACORN Pimp O’Keefe Tries to Frame CNN Reporter
CNN frequently played O’Keefe’s doctored videos smearing ACORN, without ever making a correction.
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Larry Moran issues a challenge
Show us the very best 21st century, sophisticated (or not), arguments for the existence of God.
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The Pew religious knowledge survey
Data from the survey indicate that educational attainment is the single best predictor of religious knowledge. No really?!
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Badri Raina on Ayodhya and what it implies
Allahabad High Court will rule Sept 30 who is in rightful possession of the site where the demolished mosque stood—a Muslim organization or a Hindu one.
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Salman Rushdie on religion and myth
“I don’t look to religion to answer the two great questions of life.”
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Thousands of Nigerian women in slave camps
Nigerian girls are being forced to work as prostitutes in Mali “slave camps”, say officials in Nigeria.
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Open letter from Ashtiani’s son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh
I tell you these words from the bottom of our hearts: I want the whole world to rush to our help.
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Taking the temperature
Ajita Kamal defends the role of passion in social movements, in the context of explaining why heat is not necessarily or entirely counterproductive for atheism.
There is a very important role that anger, ridicule and passion play in any social movement. While intellectual understanding is key to a movement that is well-grounded, it is the primary emotions that provide the impetus for social organization. Without this, atheism would simply remain an idea to be discussed in academia and in private settings.
I think that’s spot-on. It’s also true that there are obvious dangers – self-righteousness, verbal or literal violence, confirmation bias, groupthink, tribalism, all sorts. But…we need the movement, and we need the passion. We should relentlessly self-monitor for self-righteousness and the rest of it, but we shouldn’t cool down.
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John Shook is all “can’t you read?”
Everybody else is all “yes, we can, thanks, and we read what you wrote.”
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Lars Vilks to finish Uppsala lecture
He was interrupted by an attack in May, will complete the lecture on October 7.
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Ajita Kamal argues for gender equality in freethought
Any organization that challenges superstition and religion in India must make an effort to break established patterns of gender inequality.
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Ajita Kamal on the uses of outspoken atheism
Ideas die in a culture when it becomes embarrassing to hold on to them.
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Why US universities recruit athletes, not scholars
Too many Jews were getting in, so universities started looking for “manliness.”
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Religious belief linked to being a bit dim
As a study found that atheists know more about religion than religious people, experts said that in all fairness that should not really count as news.
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Minnesota archbishop “defends marriage”
Church is sending “educational” DVDs to Catholics to reaffirm “the unchangeable nature of marriage.”
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Cartoon rejected just for mentioning Mo
A satire on the fear of publishing anything Mo-related prompts fear of publishing anything Mo-related, and doesn’t get published.
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Aliens are sabotaging missiles, US pilots claim
Srsly. It’s totally true. They’ve been doing it since 1948. They landed 7 years ago.