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Julian Baggini on ‘Ethical’ Shopping *

Jan 8th, 2010 | Filed by

Never mind obvious consumerist tat, what about the more insidious stuff?… Read the rest



Sweden: Lars Vilks Threatened for his Motoon *

Jan 8th, 2010 | Filed by

He 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

The hegemony of the illiberal Muslims is finally being broken.… Read the rest



The Omniscient Reader Experience *

Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by

A very droll review.… Read the rest



An Unknown Unknown: Tetrapod Tracks *

Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by

It’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

What 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

Because it will be a gift to the secularists…… Read the rest



Sikivu Hutchinson on the Morality of Choice *

Jan 7th, 2010 | Filed by

‘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 Igwe

On 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

I’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

This 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

California 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

Defiance helps – it reduces the fear.… Read the rest



Taj Hargey Responds to Anjem Choudary *

Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by

A 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

He is not impressed.… Read the rest



Margaret Talbot Blogs on Perry v Schwarzenegger, *

Jan 6th, 2010 | Filed by

She analyzes the bizarre arguments so you don’t have to.… Read the rest



Leo Igwe

Jan 5th, 2010 4:08 pm | By

Leo Igwe and his father were arrested this morning.

The 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

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Amnesty International Reports Leo Igwe Released *

Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed by

Latest 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

Only the ones in cheap hotels though.… Read the rest



Swedish Motoonist Also Gets a Threat *

Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed by

From al-Shabab, at that; lucky him.… Read the rest