A B.C. woman and her brother have been arrested in connection with the 2000 slaying of the woman’s daughter, Jassi Sidhu.
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Mother and uncle of Jassi Sidhu arrested
Jan 7th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCanadian police on Friday arrested the mother and uncle for complicity in the murder of Jaswinder (Jassi) Kaur Sidhu, 25, in Punjab in June 2000.… Read the rest
CBC on “honor” killing of Jassi Sidhu
Jan 7th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEvidence gathered by Indian authorities at the time pointed to Jassi’s family allegedly arranging her murder from their home in Canada.… Read the rest
The women have taken over!!11!
Jan 6th, 2012 6:00 pm | By Ophelia BensonYou have got to be kidding, Beeb.
Headline:
Do politicians ignore the ‘men’s vote’?
Listen to the Westminster political debate in recent months and you will hear one group regularly given special attention: women.
Ed Miliband has accused the government of introducing changes in areas such as social security that are “hitting women twice as hard as men”.
Meanwhile, David Cameron says that, with government initiatives like lifting over a million people out of paying tax, “it is mostly women who benefit”.
But what you will not hear is the opposite – top politicians saying they have policies specifically directed at male voters, or “male issues”.
You’re joking. You’re joking. Please tell me you’re joking.
… Read the restBut some men say
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Pharmacy refuses to sell emergency contraception to a man
Jan 6th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFDA guidelines say both men and women who are over 17 may buy emergency contraception without a prescription. ACLU is on the case.… Read the rest
A “cultural traitor” and “uppity wog” on Hitchens
Jan 6th, 2012 11:34 am | By Ophelia BensonRushdie on Hitchens is simply…unbetterable.
… Read the restI have often been asked if Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he became my close friend because he wanted to defend me.
The spectacle of a despotic cleric with antiquated ideas issuing a death warrant for a writer living in another country, and then sending death squads to carry out the edict, changed something in Christopher. It made him understand that a new danger had been unleashed upon the earth, that a new totalizing ideology had stepped into the down-at-the-heels shoes of Soviet Communism. And when the brute hostility of American and British conservatives (Charles Krauthammer, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Paul Johnson) joined forces with the appeasement politics
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Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens
Jan 6th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe spectacle of a despotic cleric with antiquated ideas issuing a death warrant for a writer living in another country changed something in Christopher.
Benefit of the doubt
Jan 6th, 2012 10:35 am | By Ophelia BensonAbout Julian’s latest Comment is Free post.
For aspiring-to-be-rational heathens like myself, texts such as Pope Benedict’s Christmas address to the Roman Curia are often used as target practice for sharpening our critical thinking skills and BS radars. How easy it is to take a sentence like, “Only faith gives me the conviction: it is good that I exist,” and reply, “Speak for yourself, mate.”
That’s not a good start. It’s one of those “statements we doubt were ever stated” items. I don’t think it’s true that for people like Julian, texts like the pope’s Xmas chat are often used as target practice for sharpening our critical thinking skills. I think that’s a covert dig at Those Other Atheists … Read the rest
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Boko Haram murder more Christians
Jan 5th, 2012 5:10 pm | By Ophelia BensonThey warned them. They said get out in three days or we’ll kill you. Totally fair.
… Read the restGunmen have stormed a church service in Nigeria, killing six people and wounding 10, the church’s pastor said, the latest in a string of attacks that has raised fears of sectarian conflict in Africa’s most populous nation.
“It was around 7:30 pm (1830 GMT),” Pastor John Jauro told AFP news agency of Thursday’s attack in the city of Gombe.
“I was leading the congregation in prayers. Our eyes were closed when some gunmen stormed the church and opened fire on the congregation. Six people were killed in the attack and 10 others were wounded.”
He said there was confusion as worshippers sought to
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Nigeria: another church attacked; six killed
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA purported spokesman for Boko Haram on Sunday issued an ultimatum for Christians living in Nigeria’s north to leave the region or they would be killed.… Read the rest
CPJ welcomes Ivory Coast’s release of Hermann Aboa
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBased on footageof the contentious program, “Raison d’État”, CPJ determined that any charges based on Aboa’s performance as a journalist were baseless.… Read the rest
Reputation, Iago
Jan 5th, 2012 3:45 pm | By Ophelia BensonOne for the Annals of Brazen Effrontery – Andrew Wakefield sues the BMJ for claiming his MMR study was fraudulent.
… Read the restIn a complaint filed to a district court in Texas, lawyers acting for Wakefield claim that articles, editorials and other statements that appeared in the BMJ were “false and make defamatory allegations” about the doctor.
The lawsuit names Fiona Godlee, the BMJ’s editor-in-chief, and the British investigative journalist Brian Deer, who has covered the controversy over the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, which led to a drop in MMR vaccination rates to dangerous levels.
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In a statement, the BMJ and Deer said they awaited formal service of the papers, but stood by the articles and had
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More on Frank Cioffi
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLater critics of Freud such as Frederick Crews, Allen Esterson and Malcolm Macmillan always acknowleged their deep indebtedness to him.… Read the rest
Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBMJ: it would appear…that Mr Wakefield still stands by the accuracy of the Lancet paper and his conclusion therein, thereby compounding his previously found misconduct.… Read the rest
Token women
Jan 5th, 2012 11:54 am | By Ophelia BensonOh lordy, it just never ends.
Staks Rosch did an Atheist of the Year contest at the Examiner, asking his readers to nominate candidates and giving them two days to do it. And the nominees are -
- Dave Silverman
- Ricky Gervais
- Hemant Mehta
- Matt Dillahunty
- George Takei
Lisa Ridge did a Facebook post gently wondering why there were quite so few women, as in, none. I read the post and Staks Rosch’s comments and a post he’d written on the subject, and got somewhat warm under the collar. From the post:
… Read the restI started with an open nomination process in which people could suggest nominations and make a case for their nominations. I would then take that into account
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Daylight Atheism argues with Peter Hitchens
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnd vice versa.… Read the rest
Twitter fails to act over guy threatening women
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne young blogger became seriously concerned when Shereef Abdallah turned up at her university.… Read the rest
The Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe stories of five young Jat women who dared to resist. They take on the powerful Khaps and confront “honour” crimes, injustice and social boycotts.… Read the rest
Boy tortured to death as a “witch”
Jan 5th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe teenager was said to be in such pain after days of being hit with sticks, a metal bar, hammer and chisel that he begged to die.… Read the rest
Murder charges against doctors test Maryland abortion law
Jan 4th, 2012 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFreezing fetuses is “normal practice,” Riley’s attorney said, noting doctors preserve the fetuses until proper medical waste procedures can be conducted.… Read the rest