Month: April 2010

‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’

Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life.

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.

Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.

The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah

‘We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,’ seminary president said.

Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders.

Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?

She was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.

Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.

WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.

Confirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.

The state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely.

Shukria Barakzai, founder and editor of a newspaper for Afghan women, was named Worldpress.org’s 2004 International Editor of the Year.

‘If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.’

against the publishers of Jewish Free Press and the Western Standards for sighting [sic]hate against Muslims

She was to be mutilated at the behest of a man who wanted to make her his fourth wife.

Despite evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people continue to subscribe to it.

The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.