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Not Very Veiled Threats
Feb 16th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRepercussions, deeper grave, that sort of thing.… Read the rest
Irving Trial Tests Free Speech
Feb 16th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHistorian argues Germany and Austria have a moral obligation to fight Holocaust denial.… Read the rest
UN Calls for Closure of Guantanamo
Feb 16th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne investigator said detention of inmates for years without charge amounted to arbitrary detention. … Read the rest
Peter Strawson
Feb 16th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJane O’Grady in the Guardian.… Read the rest
Creeping Sharia
Feb 15th, 2006 9:39 pm | By Ophelia BensonThis is good – every day that I go to the mailbox and don’t find the books that should be here by now and that I’m quite (and by quite I mean violently) keen to have, my mood becomes fouler and more bitter, so that’s very good for doing an intemperate N&C. Lovely.
The Staggers does the predictable. Surprise surprise.
… Read the restThe New Statesman has never been afraid to ruffle feathers. Thus it is fair to ask why we, like others in the media, have refrained from publishing the Danish cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad. The reason is simple: we are prepared to take great risks and to cause offence, but only in the name of good journalism. By good journalism
Child Abuse
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEvangelist trains 2,300 students to reject most geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology as lies.… Read the rest
Ohio Expected to Rein In Class Linked to ID
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA reversal in Ohio could signal turn against ID since Kitzmiller decision.… Read the rest
Press Hands a Victory to Creeping Sharia
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUK and US media have decided it is not their job to help you understand this story.… Read the rest
The Economist Spurns Self-consorship
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen freedom of speech is under threat of violence, job of governments should be to defend it without reservation. … Read the rest
New Statesman Bravely Self-censors
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘There is nothing brave about causing gratuitous offence.’… Read the rest
Peter Strawson 1919-2006
Feb 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOxford philosopher who made influential contributions to problems of language and metaphysics.… Read the rest
Clarity
Feb 14th, 2006 8:39 pm | By Ophelia BensonSometimes the legal mind can cut through the fatuous pandering sniveling fawning dreck like a buzzsaw. Judge Jones is one memorable example, and David Pannick QC is another. (Hold the jokes. He’ll have heard them all.)
… Read the restWe respect the right of everyone to believe whatever they like: that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, Muhammad was God’s prophet, the Red Sea was parted for the Children of Israel or L. Ron Hubbard identified the path to total happiness. But there are two important limits to religious tolerance. First, I have no right to legal protection against your scepticism, criticism or ridicule. Religion is too powerful a force, and is too often a cause of injustice or evil, for it to
Photoshop
Feb 14th, 2006 5:52 pm | By Ophelia BensonFirst of all there’s the guy in the pig snout. Just fancy – that’s not a cartoon of the prophet, it’s not a cartoon of anyone, it’s not a cartoon at all, and it’s also nothing whatever to do with the prophet, or a different prophet, or any prophet, or Islam, or Muslims, or religion, or satire, or secularism, or free speech, or hate mail, or anything like that. Just fancy – it’s a guy taking part in a pig-squealing contest in France in August last year. My oh my, isn’t that amusing. Apparently what happened is, when the Danish imams were putting together their ‘brochure’ to take to the Middle East to show to the nice officials of … Read the rest
Cartoons Were Published in Egypt October 2005
Feb 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEgyptian blogger notes all the items being obscured by cartoon fuss.… Read the rest
EU Submits
Feb 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFranco Frattini performs shameless grovel.… Read the rest
Added Pig-face Cartoon is a Fake
Feb 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPhoto of man in farm contest faked to look like prophet cartoon, then added to brochure.… Read the rest
Irshad Manji, A C Grayling on Reporting Religion
Feb 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTalking at normal speed.… Read the rest
A C Grayling on Start the Week
Feb 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHear Grayling and David Baddiel compete for title of fastest talker.… Read the rest