Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.
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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Pitcairn Island: 6 Found Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Six men were convicted of charges including rape and indecent assault in trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on Pitcairn.
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Stepping Stones Nigeria on Child Witches
An increasing number of children in the Niger Delta are being forced to the streets and trafficked as a result of a deeply held belief in child “witches”
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Submission in advance
A gigantic taboo zone has been created, repeatedly reiterated and expanded with the well-intentioned collaboration of Western intellectuals.
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IHEU on superstition and witchcraft in Africa
Attacks on witches, persecution and killings still take place. Most of the victims are women and children.
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Lawyers for victims say pope obstructed justice.
In 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.
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Escaping the Amish
Rape, incest, sexual abuse; physical and verbal abuse; women have no rights; rudimentary education; animal abuse.
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Controversy over Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan, integration advisor for Rotterdam council and a guest professor at the city’s Erasmus university, is under fire for presenting a weekly talk show on the Iranian channel Press TV.
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Ratzinger’s 2001 letter to the bishops
More concerned about the ‘eucharist’ than about the molested ‘minors.’
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Sierra Leone: women journalists kidnapped by pro-FGM group
The group regarded their questions and comments as a sign of disrespect for their traditions.
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Karen Armstrong explains about God.
‘Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist.’
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The Hunt for the Hat Gene
If there’s a God gene, there must be a hat gene, and a jeans gene, and a singing gene, and…
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FGM group kidnaps female journalists
The female kidnappers accused the journalists of insulting their traditions by criticising the practice.
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On misogynist language
‘Racial slurs would not be tolerated or defended, but the use of sexist language was acceptable.’
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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.