‘Sisters in Islam’ letters to newspapers have caused changes in laws.… Read the rest
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What is Science For? 
Jun 5th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Simon Singh, Colin Berry, Philip Ball and Tracey Brown offer thoughts.… Read the rest
What Science, What Europe?
Jun 5th, 2005 |
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Mots d’ordre are made not to induce thinking and debating but to produce agreement.… Read the rest
Philosophy Companion and Future Reviewed
Jun 5th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Economist calls Nietzsche and Freud
‘unfashionable.’… Read the rest
Women Driving Leads to Evil
Jun 5th, 2005 |
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They could leave home whenever they like and go wherever they want to. … Read the rest
The Uses of Divisive Partisanship
Jun 5th, 2005 |
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It is not a virtue to escape thorny questions and postpone larger ones. … Read the rest
Gary Taylor on James Shapiro’s Shakespeare
Jun 5th, 2005 |
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‘Shapiro connects areas of scholarship usually kept separate.’… Read the rest
Have Mercy
Jun 5th, 2005 2:45 am | By Ophelia BensonHumans, humans, humans. One despairs sometimes, one really does. How can one help it.
… Read the restPolice and child protection experts are to investigate the extent of child abuse linked to religious practices after three adults who branded an eight-year-old child a witch and tortured her for months were yesterday convicted of child cruelty offences. The girl, known only as child B, was an orphan from war-ravaged Angola and brought to Britain by her aunt who falsely claimed to be her mother. She was cut with a knife on her chest, had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes, was starved and repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten…In one incident child B was bundled into a laundry bag and made to believe she
Ordeal Lasted Months and was Nearly Fatal
Jun 4th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Beaten with a stiletto shoe, cut with a kitchen knife, starved for days at a time. … Read the rest
Police to Investigate ‘Witchcraft’ Child Abuse
Jun 4th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Child welfare groups warn there may be dozens of such cases. … Read the rest
‘In our community, kindoki happens’
Jun 4th, 2005 |
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‘Kindoki is something you have to be scared of because in our culture kindoki can kill you’… Read the rest
‘Exorcisms are part of our culture’
Jun 4th, 2005 |
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Members of communities which practice exorcism say it is not necessarily harmful. … Read the rest
‘Witchcraft’ Abuse Case May be One of Many
Jun 4th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Four London charities told BBC News this was not an isolated case. … Read the rest
A Woman’s Life
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Deprived of five years of school, fired for man’s comment, shot in head.… Read the rest
UNESCO Head Condemns Rezayee Murder
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Murder cannot be considered an instrument for cultural policy.… Read the rest
Reporters Without Borders Voice Shock
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rezayee murder shows press freedom still threatened in Afghanistan.… Read the rest
Rezayee Got Flak From Conservative Mullahs
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Two of her brothers being questioned in police detention about her murder.… Read the rest
Murder of Afghan TV Presenter Shaima Rezayee
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Two months after complaints from religious hardliners got her fired.… Read the rest
Shaima Rezayee or Shabina Begum
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cultural imperialism analysis forbids people to change.… Read the rest
Meanwhile, in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen
Jun 3rd, 2005 |
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Fiction about Schrödinger: physics unconvincing as narrative.… Read the rest
