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.… Read the rest

‘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.’… Read the rest

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

Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest

Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest

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. … Read the rest

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. … Read the rest

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

On atheism and evidence for God… Read the rest

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

His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest

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

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

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

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

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…… Read the rest

Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.… Read the rest

Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest

‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest

Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire… Read the rest