Can wear hat for driver’s license photo only for religious reasons. Pastafarian steps up.… Read the rest
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Bishop, Vatican lambasted over sex abuse claims 
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cloyne report found the response from Rome effectively gave a carte blanche to the likes of Bishop Magee to ignore the guidelines.… Read the rest
Cloyne report is published
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Criticises a Catholic diocese in County Cork for a failure to report all complaints of abuse to police. … Read the rest
Jack of Kent and readers do detective work
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On the question “who is David Rose?” A friend of Johann Hari’s as he says, or…?… Read the rest
Johann Hari faces new claims of sock puppetry
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Claims that Hari used a pseudonym to make unflattering edits to Wikipedia entries for journalists including Nick Cohen and Cristina Odone.… Read the rest
Bombay: new explosions for bomber’s birthday
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The blasts coincide with the birthday of the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks which killed nearly 170 people.… Read the rest
EHRC proposes “reasonable accommodation”
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
So it is supporting Lillian Ladele at the European Court of Human Rights.… Read the rest
Religious rights will trump gay rights
Jul 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When one group refuses to fulfil its job description because it disapproves of another group, there is no middle ground.… Read the rest
How’s it going?
Jul 12th, 2011 11:05 am | By Ophelia BensonThis isn’t going well. It’s going badly. It could and should have been a minor thing that lasted about ten minutes and then ended. Instead it’s still going, and the way it’s going is badly.
Alerted by a comment by someone at Abbie’s post, I listened to about 20 minutes of something called Citizen Radio yesterday because it had a talk with Rebecca Watson about All That. I gave up before they got to the talk because I was bored beyond endurance by the hosts’ dialogue, but at the very beginning one of them (Kilkenny or Kilstein, I don’t know which) gave a quick summary of All That, which included casually calling Richard Dawkins “a rich white man” … Read the rest
Tony Blair’s crap idea
Jul 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Getting schools to obsess about religion.… Read the rest
Independent suspends Johann Hari
Jul 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He is accused of lifting quotes from elsewhere without attributing the source, is suspended pending the outcome of an internal investigation.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney interviews Rebecca Watson on PoI
Jul 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hmmm.… Read the rest
Everybody is exactly the same
Jul 11th, 2011 3:41 pm | By Ophelia BensonMore precision needed. There should be a stamp for that. MPN should be like LOL or TMI.
It is essential, therefore, that those wishing to criticise the excesses of Islam avoid making generalisations about the two million Muslims living in the UK. “I don’t have any problem with people critiquing some of the things that are done in the name of Islam,” says Tarry. “Some horrific crimes against humanity are committed in the name of religion, but that doesn’t mean every Muslim walking down the streets of Britain thinks that way.”
Of course it doesn’t, but it also doesn’t mean, for instance, that only a tiny minority of Muslims think that way. It doesn’t actually tell you anything about … Read the rest
His blood type made him do it
Jul 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Japanese minister resigns, saying his blood type made him a more abrasive personality and accounted for his rude remarks.… Read the rest
Gaps are closing
Jul 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Creationists’ room for manoeuvre, when citing the evidence, continues to diminish.… Read the rest
Cult leader accused of killing child for being “gay”
Jul 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The kid was four years old.… Read the rest
Statements and actions in Support of International Day against Stoning
Jul 10th, 2011 | By Maryam Namazie and many othersLATEST STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS, Updated 10 July 2011
AUSTRALIA
Statement from Russell Blackford, author and philosopher, Australia: It is unacceptable that the barbaric punishment of death by stoning continue in the twenty-first century. I join with many others throughout the world in calling for an end to the practice of death by stoning, condemnation of any government that uses or condones the practice, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the immediate release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and others currently sentenced to death by stoning.
BELGIUM
Ann Brusseel of the Flemish parliament: will issue a resolution for 21 July (Belgian National Day) urging the Federal government to take action on violations of human rights and crimes against humanity of the … Read the rest
Canadian Public Schools Must Remain Secular
Jul 10th, 2011 | By Homa ArjomandThe Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is promoting segregation by adopting a policy that allows religious influence within the school system. TDSB recently permitted students at Valley Park Middle School on Overlea Blvd to have prayer services in the cafeteria. This is another attempt of political Islam to recruit youth. It will not take long before other religious leaders push for their own space in schools.
Homa Arjomand proclaims that“schools will become a battle ground between various religious groups. Segregation does not stop here. Soon under the influence of religious leaders with political agendas, there would be a huge confrontation between students of so called one faith with the children of another faith, undermining the enforcement of the secular school … Read the rest
Toronto: public schools allow formal prayer services
Jul 10th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Complete with dirty menstruating girls sitting apart at the back.… Read the rest
