Month: April 2010

Feminism created a new normal.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.

A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.

Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.

The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.

Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.

More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.

Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.

Universal means universal.

‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’

Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways.

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious.