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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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Hanan Dover notes that homosexuality is haram in Islam.
‘The acceptance of one’s God-given sex is a form of surrender to God or sumission to Allah.’
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Saudi Arabia: more female graduates, no more jobs.
Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.
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George Scialabba on Jacoby, Bernstein and Multiculturalism
Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.
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The new Taliban codex
It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.
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Young Afghan women turn to suicide
Driven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.
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AIDS Denial is Pseudoscience
The scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, the way science is supposed to be done.
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A chat with Rome’s Exorcist
‘If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.’
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Pragna Patel: Failed by religious law
The sentiments expressed by the archbishop are indicative of those who call themselves “progressive” or “liberal” but who are often the most insidious.
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Dick Taverne rebukes Prince Charles
A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.
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Iran’s bloggers in censorship protest
Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.
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Afghan women seek death by fire
Delegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.
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The Power of One: An Interview With Shukria Barakzai
Shukria Barakzai, founder and editor of a newspaper for Afghan women, was named Worldpress.org’s 2004 International Editor of the Year.
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Pope Says No to Gender-neutral God
Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.
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Katha Pollitt on Palin the Affirmative Action Babe
There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.
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Profile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’
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Einstein Wasn’t Writing for Time
Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.
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What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?
Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.
