Author: Ophelia Benson

EU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights

Nepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.

The desperate consequences of delusional thinking about medicine…when the deluded are the people running the country.

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.

Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.

The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed.

79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.

‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’

ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.

‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’

Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’

Feminism created a new normal.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.

A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.

Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.

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

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

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