Published: 2011-01-23, Updated: 2011-01-24
The past days saw the launch of the new culture magazine Sans. The theme [of the premier issue] is religious oppression of women, and the main article of the magazine is an interview of the American feminist and author Ophelia Benson, who in the book “Does God hate women?” charts how women’s human rights are violated within conservative religious traditions around the world.
On the front page of Sans, which bears the headline “A God for women?”, we publish a picture of a woman dressed in a burqa.
The magazine has barely left the presses before the Christian think tank Seglora Smedja, run by Helle Klein among others, brands Sans as islamophobic. Apart from … Read the rest