Sisters in Islam should be investigated and declared ‘haram’ if it is found to be anti-Islam.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Hitchens on Obama in Cairo
Does the president think that the veil and the burqa are also freely chosen fashion statements?
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MHRA Licences Homeopathic ‘Therapy’
Pills are labelled ‘a homoeopathic medicinal product used with the homoeopathic tradition.’
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Blair Begins ‘School Faith Scheme’
‘Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face To Faith project’ does God with a vengeance.
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Blair Thinks ‘Religious Literacy’ Will Help
Dialogue, different faiths, understanding, peace, Islamophobia, communities, deeper, beliefs.
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More Emetic ‘Faith’ Blather from Blair
‘Faith matters. Even if you are not of religious faith yourself.’ Heavy, dude.
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Dublin: Solidarity March for Abuse Victims
The scandal of the abuse was described as Ireland’s mini holocaust by several campaigners today.
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Alternative ‘Medicine’ Goes Mainstream
An underground medical system with millions of people using it on blind faith.
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Man Jailed for ‘Honour’ Killing of Sister
Hasibullah Sadiqi gunned down his sister Khatera and her fiancé Feroz Mangal.
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Save the Salinger Archives
It seems possible he could be typing out the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit over and over again.
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Somalia: al-Shabab Destroying Graves
Sufi Muslims embrace music, dancing and meditation and are appalled at desecration of graves.
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Islamist ‘Justice’ in Kismayo
Hundreds of people flocked to Freedom Park to see a man’s hand chopped off.
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Align Those Chakras
A visit to the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival: strapped in for some top-shelf bullshit.
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BNP Leader Pelted With Eggs
Number of people voting BNP went up slightly, with the party benefitting from collapse in Labour vote.
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One of me, two of them
This 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.
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The transparency project
One 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 a way, that so many people are happy to take orders from an unavailable unaccountable God; it’s especially suprising in the case of people who are consigned to inferior status by that unavailable unaccountable God. Habit, custom, training, and inertia explain a lot, but it’s still surprising.
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Pope Briefed on Ryan Report
Listened carefully to what archbishop and cardinal said. Suggested ‘deep soul-searching.’
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Catholic Theologian Reacts to Ryan Report
Suggested part of the problem came from the church’s failure to develop a self-critical, thinking Christianity.
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Muriel Gray on Obama’s Speech
Surely the boldest way forward is to tell the uncomfortable truth instead of obsequious fawning.
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OIC to Special Rapporteur: Watch Your Mouth
He said restrictions on free speech should never be used to protect beliefs, including religious ones. Horrors!