Author: Ophelia Benson

How each sex scores on ‘the seven deadly sins.’ Does the Vatican have nothing better to do?

Peter Tatchell disagrees with the decision to ban the Phelpses and Geert Wilders

Sharia is why so many of us have fled and are fleeing Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Faith does not simply plug a gap where reason fears to tread; it actively goes against all that reason tells us.

Sufi Mohammad is not quite as bad as Fazlullah, oh hooray.

Thousands of men marched for peace in Swat, led by the cleric who signed a deal to enforce Sharia.

Little reason to hope Fazlullah and Taliban will be satisfied with agreement for limited application of sharia.

Man who founded tv station to fight Muslim stereotypes is charged with decapitating his wife.

‘We categorically denounce it in all forms.’ Sura 4:34 not mentioned.

The Satanic Verses destabilizes the moral certainties of a universe set in stone; it celebrates imagination.

‘It is a proven scientific fact that thinking about something often causes it to happen. Some call this quantum physics.’

A personal connection.

Under S 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code, it is an offence to outrage anyone’s religious sensibilities.

Vatican has some state privileges such as voting at UN conferences. No other religious body has that status.

However critics claim the Archbishop’s comments have made Muslim women worse off.

After a campaign by gay rights groups and MPs the Home Secretary agreed to reconsider her case.

‘This is definitely a surrender,’ said Khadim Hussain of Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy.

Magic stone cures depression.

Plans to picket sixth form college in Basingstoke for not hating fags.

They said he could keep it another four years, but he said no thanks.