A gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.
Month: April 2010
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Pitcairn Island: 6 Found Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Six men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.
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Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl
3 January: I am afraid. 14 January: I may not go to school again.
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BBC boss says Islam should be treated differently
Also says his Christian beliefs guide his judgments.
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Scalia on the death penalty
For the believing Christian, death is no big deal.
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Colorado senator opposes AIDS testing.
If the baby has AIDS, the mother will feel guilty, and that will be good.
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Gerald Weissmann on Homeopathy and the Prince of Wales
When Prince Charles uses terms such as ‘integrated therapy’ he is following the lead of creationists who hide under the term ‘intelligent design.’
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Prince of Wales joins ‘detox’ fraud
The word detox has no agreed meaning. It is a marketing word, designed to separate the gullible from their money
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IHEU and CFI defend the rights of women
IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.
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IHEU against OIC censorship at the UN
EU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights
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Nepotistic succession in the political class
Nepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.
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The Tragic Human Cost of Political Idiocy and AIDS Pseudoscience
The desperate consequences of delusional thinking about medicine…when the deluded are the people running the country.
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Alan Wolfe admires Rick Warren
Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.
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Scientist dismisses ‘detox’ diets
Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.
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The dangers of too much ‘detox’
The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed.
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Belief in hell
79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.
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Brad DeLong on books as people
‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’
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LRA accused of selling food aid
ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.
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Flora Terah: beaten and tortured for running for office
‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’
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‘Honour’ killing rewarded with prize of 3 girls
Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’
