Category: Flashback

Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world.

Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist

Secularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.

‘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.’

Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.

Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.

Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights

If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other.

Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax.

If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.

On atheism and evidence for God

Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.

His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.

‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’

Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’

‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’

Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…