Dr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’
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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Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.
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British diplomats rescue women from forced marriages
Rehman has been thrashed by her father, threatened at gunpoint by her uncle and forced to marry a complete stranger
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A Mathematician Reads Social Text
Don’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.
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‘Living on Earth’ visits Wangari Maathai
Green belts, trees, women, poverty, empowerment, corruption, resistance.
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A ‘Museum Different’
The exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’
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Azam Kamguian on Islam and Education
The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.
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Grade Inflation in US higher education
Americans just keep getting smarter and smarter
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Manufactured Consensus?
If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.
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Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.
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The machismo of the riots
In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.
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Milt Rosenberg interviews Frederick Crews [audio]
One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory
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About that Chinese encyclopedia…
Foucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.
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Politeness on ‘In Our Time’
The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.
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A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge
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An Unbeautiful Mind
It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.
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Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot
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The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well
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Law angers women’s rights campaigners
New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.
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HRW on Women’s Rights
Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.
