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

Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.… Read the rest

Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.… Read the rest

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

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest

Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.… Read the rest

Political change in Iran is necessary, but it must not be achieved by foreign intervention.… Read the rest

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

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.… Read the rest

The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest

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

Chills the blood.… Read the rest

Islamic officials seized her 15-month-old daughter from her Hindu husband, Suresh Veerappan, last month and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother.… Read the rest

Fundamentalists want to impose a religious identity on all citizens, by virtue of their birth place rather than by choice, thus denying freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of consciousness.… Read the rest

She was to be mutilated at the behest of a man who wanted to make her his fourth wife.… Read the rest

Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life. … Read the rest

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest

Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.… Read the rest

Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.… Read the rest

His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.… Read the rest