‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’… Read the rest
Friendly Feudalism: the Tibet Myth
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonYoung 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. … Read the rest
Universal Human Rights and “Human Rights in Islam”
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.… Read the rest
On Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRight from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest
Khadim Hussain on Swat Valley After Emergency in Pakistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah … Read the rest
Southern Baptist Seminary Offers ‘Homemaking’ Degree for Women
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘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.… Read the rest
Flemming Rose on the cartoons
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDoes a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?… Read the rest
Flemming Rose on why he published the cartoons
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThis is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders. … Read the rest
Research? hmm. Torture? go right ahead.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBen Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?… Read the rest
Shazia Qayum is spokeswoman for the Forced Marriage Unit.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.… Read the rest
Who should be able to stop a forced marriage?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.… Read the rest
WHO study on risks of FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA statement on FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonConfirming the universally unacceptable harm caused by FGM, and issuing an unqualified call for the elimination of this practice in all its forms.… Read the rest
Women constantly under threat in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe state cannot protect women and ensure that they can go about their work safely. … Read the rest
The Power of One: An Interview With Shukria Barakzai
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShukria Barakzai, founder and editor of a newspaper for Afghan women, was named Worldpress.org’s 2004 International Editor of the Year. … Read the rest
A chat with Rome’s Exorcist
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.’… Read the rest
Syed Soharwardy’s complaint to AHRC
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Bensonagainst the publishers of Jewish Free Press and the Western Standards for sighting [sic]hate against Muslims… Read the rest
Fauziya Kassindja fled Togo to escape FGM
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe was to be mutilated at the behest of a man who wanted to make her his fourth wife.… Read the rest
Natalie Angier on the matriarchal myth.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDespite 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. … Read the rest
Inca children were fattened-up before sacrifice
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe 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.… Read the rest