The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest

Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest

More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest

Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.… Read the rest

Universal means universal.… Read the rest

‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’… Read the rest

Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.… Read the rest

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.… Read the rest

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state … Read the rest

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004… Read the rest

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.… Read the rest

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious. … Read the rest

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

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. … Read the rest

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

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

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

‘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