Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest
Charles Murray is Deeply in Love With Sarah Palin
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt on Palin the Affirmative Action Babe
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.… Read the rest
Dick Taverne rebukes Prince Charles
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.… Read the rest
Saudi Arabia: more female graduates, no more jobs.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOnly 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.… Read the rest
Swimming in Saudi Arabia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonForeign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest
Maryam Namazie on the veil
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest
Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFour male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest
Women’s lives in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMore than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest
Woman’s Hour on women in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMaternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.… Read the rest
Primacy of the UDHR
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUniversal means universal.… Read the rest
Nahid Toubia fights against FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’… Read the rest
Canada will not participate in Durban II
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDurban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.… Read the rest
Muslim students file rights complaint against Maclean’s
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFaisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.… Read the rest
Got a complaint? Call 1-800-Human-Rights.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state … Read the rest
The Candidate
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest
Reading Karen Armstrong
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHistory is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest
Little help available for minors fleeing FLDS
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonService providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest
Pope Says No to Gender-neutral God
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest
Pragna Patel: Failed by religious law
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious. … Read the rest