Sura 40 says that those who reject the scriptures will have iron collars and chains placed around their necks, be dragged into scalding water and burnt in the fire.
Category: Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
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Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption
The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement of Benazir Bhutto but they trace the pervasive role of her husband.
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Khadim Hussain on Swat Valley After Emergency in Pakistan
The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah
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Women’s lives in Afghanistan
More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.
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Emily Bourgeois helps children in Uganda
She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.
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Woman in burqa horrified by woman in chador
Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see.’
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Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider banned
To mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.
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Brian Whitaker on Joseph Massad on ‘the Gay International’
Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.
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On Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.
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Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.
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The Cardinal’s concern for children.
Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.
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Murdered Journalists
Government and military officials are suspected of plotting, ordering, or carrying out more than a quarter of journalist murders over the past 15 years, CPJ’s analysis shows.
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Inca children were fattened-up before sacrifice
The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.
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BHL Too Fashionable, French Intellectuals Report
Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.
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Advertising Standards Authority rules out miracle cure ad
The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder
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The real politics behind bad academic writing
The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”
