Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.… Read the rest
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.
Khadim Hussain on Swat Valley After Emergency in Pakistan 
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah … Read the rest
Women’s lives in Afghanistan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe admires Rick Warren
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest
The Cardinal’s concern for children.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest
Murdered Journalists
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Government and military officials are suspected of plotting, ordering, or carrying out more than a quarter of journalist murders over the past 15 years, CPJ’s analysis shows.… Read the rest
Rape in Congo
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Countless women in DRC have been raped and mangled, then shunned.… Read the rest
Inca children were fattened-up before sacrifice
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Inca were imperialists too, and the treatment of such peasant children may have served to instil fear and facilitate social control over remote mountain areas.… Read the rest
On Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest
Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest
AI asks bloggers to support free speech
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.… Read the rest
Kenan Malik interprets the Dispatches Muslim Survey.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest
Injustice in Malaysia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.… Read the rest
Akbar Ganji on the View from Tehran
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Political change in Iran is necessary, but it must not be achieved by foreign intervention.… Read the rest
Natalie Angier on the matriarchal myth.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Despite evidence that contradicts the story of a prelapsarian gynecocracy, and a glaring lack of evidence to support it, many people continue to subscribe to it. … Read the rest
Universal Human Rights and
“Human Rights in Islam”
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.… Read the rest
Maryam Namazie on the veil
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest
Goldenbridge orphanage
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She was regularly beaten, left to sleep in her own urine, had her teeth knocked out, was hospitalised after a beating when she tried to break out of the orphanage.… Read the rest
Hearings into child abuse at Goldenbridge
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Chills the blood.… Read the rest
