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.
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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On Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Right from the start of the Cairo Declaration, it is made clear the world is divided into Muslims and infidels.
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Rape victims are guilty of zina; their rapists go free.
Four male witnesses of good standing are required to prove rape. Charging rape is proof of zina – by the woman only.
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AI asks bloggers to support free speech
Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.
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Kenan Malik interprets the Dispatches Muslim Survey.
The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.
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Injustice in Malaysia
Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.
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Akbar Ganji on the View from Tehran
Political change in Iran is necessary, but it must not be achieved by foreign intervention.
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Natalie Angier on the matriarchal myth.
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.
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Universal Human Rights and “Human Rights in Islam”
The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam claims supremacy over the UDHR, based on divine revelation.
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Maryam Namazie on the veil
The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.
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Goldenbridge orphanage
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.
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Hearings into child abuse at Goldenbridge
Chills the blood.
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Muslim-born woman detained for ‘rehabilitation’ from Hinduism
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.
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Marieme Helie Lucas on the fundamentalist political agenda.
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.
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Fauziya Kassindja fled Togo to escape FGM
She was to be mutilated at the behest of a man who wanted to make her his fourth wife.
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Friendly Feudalism: the Tibet Myth
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.
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Swimming in Saudi Arabia
Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.
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Religious police prevented schoolgirls from escaping fire
Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.
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A Conversation with Akbar Ganji and Martha Nussbaum [audio]
Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.
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Spanish women’s groups sue imam
His book gives advice on wife-beating. Not too hard, not on the tender bits; do it right.