Author: Ophelia Benson

The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious.

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways.

History is for Karen Armstrong not so much putty as Playdoh.

The New Yorker on Obama in May 2004

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.

Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.

‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’

Universal means universal.

Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feminism created a new normal.