If the antis are successful then many, many children will die of totally preventable diseases. … Read the rest
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Chuck’s Claims Long on Bombast, Short on Evidence
Aug 13th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn analysis of the Prince’s claims indicates that few of them are founded on data from the real world. … Read the rest
Charles Gets Things Absolutely Wrong
Aug 13th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPrince’s lack of scientific understanding would condemn millions of people to starvation.… Read the rest
3 Aid Workers, Driver Killed in Afghanistan
Aug 13th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe women worked for the International Rescue Committee; gunmen shot up their cars in Logar province.… Read the rest
P Charles Talks Evidence-free Nonsense
Aug 13th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Clever genetic engineering…guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time.’… Read the rest
A wealth of implication
Aug 12th, 2008 6:10 pm | By Ophelia BensonOf course, the novel will be published sooner or later. Writing about Muhammad has become the shortest cut to media attention in the west. And of course semi-employed young men and women from religious Muslim backgrounds will be out on the streets, shouting.
Women? No they won’t. You don’t see them out there much – which is not surprising, since in ‘religious Muslim’ countries they’re not always encouraged to join in, if you get my drift. But they also, quite possibly, have better sense. It tends to be the young men who work themselves into stupid frenzies about this kind of thing. Rage boy, remember? Rage girl not so much.
… Read the rest[E]ven very religious Muslims cannot ignore the
Mick Hume on Pre-emptive Grovelling
Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFearful self-censorship in the name of liberal values is worth intellectual rioting.… Read the rest
Child Starved to Death for not Saying ‘Amen’
Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMembers of ‘Mind Ministries’ viewed the child, age 21 months, as a ‘demon.’… Read the rest
Professor’s Helpful Warning
Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFaegheh Shirazi, of UT’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, understands decision not to publish.… Read the rest
Missing the Point
Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt’s not Spellberg’s fault, it’s Random House that made the decision.… Read the rest
Tabish Khair on the Spellberg Affair
Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia Benson80% of the people who died in riots over Rushdie or Motoons were Muslim. … Read the rest
Sisters unite and fight development
Aug 11th, 2008 5:53 pm | By Ophelia BensonYou know every now and then if you’re very good I give you a jolt from the Women’s Studies mailing list. I have one now, fresh in this morning. Someone wanting material for a course she’s going to teach.
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course is a straight-up political science one on “democracy and
development,” but I’m looking to inject some feminism into it. I
think I’ve got some good stuff on the democracy side, but I’m looking
for:1) articles on women’s/feminist engagement with “development” as a
discourse, or resistance to development projects
2) a film about the conflict between democracy and development–that
is, struggles against state-sponsored development projects that come
from democratic autonomous movements. Off the top of my head, I’m
thinking
Blame Everyone but Yourselves
Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFood has become the bollocks du jour, with no regard for accuracy whatsoever.… Read the rest
Fruitlessly Mocking Nutriwoo
Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe newspapers are so overrun with food pseudoscience there’s no point in documenting it any more.… Read the rest
Solidarity Against Western Colonialism
Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFeminists who think hijab is oppressive to women want to bomb them into submission. Yee-ha.… Read the rest
HRW Urges: Press Zimbabwe to End Abuses
Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHRW report ‘They Beat Me like a Dog’ describes killings, beatings and arbitrary arrests by ZANU-PF.… Read the rest
Debating Democracy Promotion in China
Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDaniel Bell and Michael Walzer on whether liberalization and democracy should be imported.… Read the rest
Total Politics Interviews Johann Hari
Aug 10th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe’re all born involved in the political world, whether we like it or not. … Read the rest
Court Rejects Convert’s Renunciation of Islam
Aug 10th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLim sought ruling that she had the right to renounce Islam under Article 11 of the Malaysian Constitution.… Read the rest
Malaysian Court Rejects Bid to Leave Islam
Aug 10th, 2008 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAppellant not legally recognized because her Chinese name no longer existed after conversion to Islam… Read the rest