The scandal of the abuse was described as Ireland’s mini holocaust by several campaigners today.… Read the rest
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More Emetic ‘Faith’ Blather from Blair 
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Faith matters. Even if you are not of religious faith yourself.’ Heavy, dude.… Read the rest
Blair Thinks ‘Religious Literacy’ Will Help
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dialogue, different faiths, understanding, peace, Islamophobia, communities, deeper, beliefs.… Read the rest
Blair Begins ‘School Faith Scheme’
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face To Faith project’ does God with a vengeance.… Read the rest
MHRA Licences Homeopathic ‘Therapy’
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pills are labelled ‘a homoeopathic medicinal product used with the homoeopathic tradition.’… Read the rest
Hitchens on Obama in Cairo
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Does the president think that the veil and the burqa are also freely chosen fashion statements?… Read the rest
Malaysia: Islamists v Sisters in Islam
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sisters in Islam should be investigated and declared ‘haram’ if it is found to be anti-Islam.… Read the rest
Baptist Pastor Offers ‘Imprecatory Prayers’
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wiley Drake is asking the deity to kill Obama.… Read the rest
BNP Leader Pelted With Eggs
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Number of people voting BNP went up slightly, with the party benefitting from collapse in Labour vote. … Read the rest
Align Those Chakras
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A visit to the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival: strapped in for some top-shelf bullshit.… Read the rest
Islamist ‘Justice’ in Kismayo
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hundreds of people flocked to Freedom Park to see a man’s hand chopped off.… Read the rest
Somalia: al-Shabab Destroying Graves
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sufi Muslims embrace music, dancing and meditation and are appalled at desecration of graves.… Read the rest
Save the Salinger Archives
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It seems possible he could be typing out the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit over and over again.… Read the rest
Man Jailed for ‘Honour’ Killing of Sister
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hasibullah Sadiqi gunned down his sister Khatera and her fiancé Feroz Mangal.… Read the rest
One of me, two of them
Jun 9th, 2009 10:25 am | By Ophelia BensonThis will amuse you – I’m going to be on Nightwaves on Thursday. A ‘debate’ – more or less about the book, as I understand it. The Other Side will be represented by two people – which perhaps hints at where the BBC’s sympathies lie.
I won’t tell you who the other people are now, because I prefer to tell you later.… Read the rest
The transparency project
Jun 9th, 2009 10:12 am | By Ophelia BensonOne reason religion is not good for women.
God represents an absent, unknown, unknowable, unaccountable, arbitrary power – which makes God a tyrant. To quote from the book, it’s a bad principle to expect humans to obey a putative god that is inaccessible and unknowable, just as it
would be to expect us to obey human legislators who were equally
hidden and unknowable and unaccountable. The God of most believers is a God that no one has
ever seen, that does not make appearances, that sends no messages;
this God is hidden, secretive, permanently and inviolably locked away
from all living people; this fact alone is enough to disqualify it as a source of laws or morality.
It’s surprising, in … Read the rest
Bullying the Special Rapporteur
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The SR for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression must shut up or else.… Read the rest
Catholic Church Lectures Gays on Child Abuse
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Well they are the experts.… Read the rest
OIC to Special Rapporteur: Watch Your Mouth
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He said restrictions on free speech should never be used to protect beliefs, including religious ones. Horrors!… Read the rest
Muriel Gray on Obama’s Speech
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Surely the boldest way forward is to tell the uncomfortable truth instead of obsequious fawning. … Read the rest
