Never mind obvious consumerist tat, what about the more insidious stuff?… Read the rest
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Sweden: Lars Vilks Threatened for his Motoon
Jan 8th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe got a phone call from a man who said that it was his turn next time.… Read the rest
Liberal Muslims Form a Group in Norway
Jan 8th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe hegemony of the illiberal Muslims is finally being broken.… Read the rest
The Omniscient Reader Experience
Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA very droll review.… Read the rest
An Unknown Unknown: Tetrapod Tracks
Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt’s not only the date that’s got people excited, it’s also the location where these fossils were found. … Read the rest
Russell Blackford on Nancy Graham Holm
Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat she has written is worth denouncing – soberly, deliberately, and in all seriousness.… Read the rest
Gay Ex-Monk Fears the Pope’s Visit to UK
Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBecause it will be a gift to the secularists…… Read the rest
Sikivu Hutchinson on the Morality of Choice
Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Precious’ is one more in a long line of contemporary US films that ‘omit’ reference to abortion as a viable life option.… Read the rest
This Nonsense Must Stop
Jan 7th, 2010 | By Leo IgweOn Tuesday January 5, at about 7.00am some police officers and soldiers led by two crime merchants in my community, Edward Uwah and Ethelbert Ugwu stormed my family compound in Mbaise in Imo state in Southern Nigeria. They arrested me and my aging father. We were detained briefly at the local police station in Ahiazu before we were transfered to the zonal police headquarters in Umuahia. The officers threatened to beat us when we asked them to allow us to clean up and change our clothes. One of the soldiers brought out his gun and threatened to shoot my father when he wanted to make phone calls to alert other family members of our arrest. The police held us throughout … Read the rest
Epithets
Jan 6th, 2010 5:34 pm | By Ophelia BensonI’ve been engaging in yet another round of trying to challenge the dopy sexism that is so common in internet discussion, as if someone had declared the internet a boys-only domain. This time the dopy sexism was in comments at Richard Dawkins’s site, in a thread on that dreadful article by Nancy Graham Holm. Someone called her a stupid bitch and I said I hate her article as much as anyone but can’t we say how bad it is without resorting to sexist epithets? Stupidly, I always expect elbow-jogs of that kind to be 1) self-evident and 2) sufficient, so I’m always surprised when instead I get a big indignant idiotic argument. I got one this time, … Read the rest
Der Spiegel: the West is Choked by Fear
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThis time, in contrast to the Rushdie case, few have shown solidarity with the threatened Danish cartoonists.… Read the rest
PaleoTexans Control US Textbooks
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCalifornia is too broke to buy textbooks, so Texas has more clout than ever. Be afraid.… Read the rest
Life Now for Kurt Westergaard
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDefiance helps – it reduces the fear.… Read the rest
Taj Hargey Responds to Anjem Choudary
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA ban is just what the party-of-one Choudary wants. Ignore him.… Read the rest
Oliver Kamm Responds to Nancy Graham Holm
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe is not impressed.… Read the rest
Margaret Talbot Blogs on Perry v Schwarzenegger,
Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe analyzes the bizarre arguments so you don’t have to.… Read the rest
Leo Igwe
Jan 5th, 2010 4:08 pm | By Ophelia BensonLeo Igwe and his father were arrested this morning.
… Read the restThe police team was led by Dr Edward Uwa the university leacturer who raped a ten year old student Miss Daberechi Anongam…About three years ago, Dr Uwa invited Ms Daberechi Anongam to do some house chores for him and forced her to bed, covering her mouth and raped her. She sustained several injuries in her private part. Leo Igwe and his family members led an intensive campaign for justice for Ms Daberechi. After a lot of intrigues,the police now started a prosecution on the matter at Ahiazu magistrate court Imo State. Since then, Leo Igwe and his family have known no peace as several pettitions have been written against them
Amnesty International Reports Leo Igwe Released
Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLatest news: he and his father have been released on bail. Read the details.… Read the rest
Malaysia: Hotel Raids Target Unmarried Couples
Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOnly the ones in cheap hotels though.… Read the rest
Swedish Motoonist Also Gets a Threat
Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFrom al-Shabab, at that; lucky him.… Read the rest