Author: Ophelia Benson

‘We want neither Sharia, nor a coup, but a fully democratic Turkey,’ demonstrators said.

‘To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant.’

Next up: a pill that increases housework, reduces talk. The ideal woman is on the way.

Women’s rights or multiculturalism? You can’t have both, Johann Hari notes; you have to choose.

Add your voice to those calling for change in Kurdistan and Iraq and for an end to the oppression of ‘honour’.

Relatives stripped her, beat and kicked her, and killed her by crushing her body with rocks and concrete blocks.

Of Du’a Khalil Aswad, 17 year old Kurdish girl murdered by public stoning after running away from home.

Each of us is aware of a light, of something fundamentally good. This something is…Jesus.

There’s a story in which the Enlightenment version of reason is oppressive and leads to the Holocaust.

Leviticus 27 says a man is worth 50 shekels, a woman is worth 30. Because?

First they came for the bigots, but I did not speak out, for I was not a bigot.

Swedish group tries to change the patriarchal view of women still held by many men.

‘Many girls in immigrant communities are trapped in rigid patriarchal structures and live in fear of their families.’

Why should there not be pure intellects, with no admixture of matter, who are located wherever they act?

‘What the creationist alternative does to students is to intercept and deaden curiosity.’

Like Muhammad, Smith could produce divine revelations at short notice and often simply to suit himself.

Thanks for all the music.

Complex manner in which he expresses himself does not imply that his thought is itself subtle or complex.

Thousands cautioned. Shopkeeper told to saw off the breasts of mannequins.