WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Amnesty International on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan
Dr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’
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Manufactured Consensus?
If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.
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Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot
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Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world.
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Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights
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Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’
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Evidence and persuasion
Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire
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Simon Blackburn interview
On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume
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Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.
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Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation
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Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’
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The great Kabbalah con
An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic
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Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.
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Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.
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Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.
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The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well
