Labour MP says the voices of victims of forced marriage and ‘honour’ crimes are not heard often enough.… Read the rest
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Fariba Amini on Human Rights in Iran 
Jan 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Islamic regime has trampled on its citizens and insulted the intellect and wisdom of its own people.… Read the rest
Bishop of Oxford Urges Relaxation and Respect
Jan 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It is good that we should be reminded of the faithfulness of many members of the community.’… Read the rest
Citroen Apologizes for Mao Ad ‘Insult’
Jan 15th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mao is still revered despite policies which ended in the deaths of millions. Nobody’s perfect.… Read the rest
The Cosmopolitan Possibility
Jan 15th, 2008 | By Paul Sikander, introduction by Gina KhanGina Khan would like to introduce Paul Sikander, the author of this article. A lawyer who grew up in London and the West Midlands, he has also observed the rise of Islamism in Birmingham at close quarters over the last twenty years.
As British Muslim women, we struggle from within to raise our voices and to be heard, we are looking through bullet-proof glass windows as we watch the MCB and other bodies manipulate the media or the government; we never get consulted. It is encouraging to find another voice who breaks his silence today on Islamists and the hypocrisy, control and Islamism that Muslim women and children can be subjected to in Britain. I hope every governing body in … Read the rest
Past Imperfect
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Charlie Wilson helped to bring down a project of secular modernisation. Clever.… Read the rest
Brian Whitaker on Human Rights and Universalism
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is no room for selectively excluding some humans on the pretext of local circumstances or cultural norms.… Read the rest
Brian Whitaker on HRW and Honour Killings
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many governments that sign up to treaties such as CEDAW face resistance from conservatives at home.… Read the rest
Loudspeaker Plan for Oxford Mosque Not Popular
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Neighbours think it might be a tad noisy and intrusive. And theological.… Read the rest
Gina Khan Interview Part 4
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Inayat Bunglawala is a good example of what I mean by the extreme version of Islam.… Read the rest
Gina Khan Interview Part 3
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Islamists would disable half the body of Islam by reversing the rights of women.… Read the rest
Steven Pinker on the Moral Instinct
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who is most moral: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, or Norman Borlaug?… Read the rest
Gina Khan Interview Part 2
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The first time my husband slapped me after I questioned him he said ”Don’t question my authority – in our religion you are not allowed. I’m your husband.’… Read the rest
Westminster Journal Interviews Gina Khan
Jan 14th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pain figures in the lives of many Muslim women because of accepted Muslim social practices. … Read the rest
Fauziya Kassindja ran away
Jan 13th, 2008 3:50 pm | By Ophelia BensonKpalime, Togo, 1997: Hajia Zuwera Kassindja apologized to her late husband’s cousin, the patriarch of his family, for having helped her daughter Fauziya run away to America to escape having her genitals cut off. She had given her daughter nearly all of her money to run away.
”What the mother did pains me a lot,” the patriarch, Mouhamadou Kassindja, said in a scolding tone…”She is my brother’s wife. It is for me to take care of my brother’s child since he is no longer alive. She acted as though the child were hers. She and the child made the laws. That is why the child did not want to follow the customs.”
She acted as though the child were hers … Read the rest
The Huckster’s Artful Dodging on Evolution
Jan 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It is unacceptable for a presidential candidate to advocate a clearly unconstitutional educational policy.… Read the rest
Defiant Levant Republishes Motoons
Jan 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Syed Soharwardy of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada filed a complaint.… Read the rest
Ezra Levant to Alberta Human Rights Commission
Jan 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The commission is acting as a censor. That’s human rights?… Read the rest
Blasphemy Laws on the Skids
Jan 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Archbishop of Canterbury will not oppose abolition.… Read the rest
Children Baptised for Sake of School Place
Jan 13th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘A great compliment from the community at large to the quality of the Catholic school system.’… Read the rest
