Category: Flashback

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.

Sexual behavior may compete with the time and resources required for other goals.

Reasons not to talk about stampedes where “several” poor Third-World Muslims died.

Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.

The Canadian Islamic Congress has a new partner in its censorship campaign: the state

‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’

Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.

Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.

‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’

It is estimated that as many as 74,000 women in the UK have had FGM and that every year a further 7,000 are at risk.

She was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.

ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.

She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women.

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.

Enlightenment 2.0 makes for a rather toothless, muddled kind of liberation.

Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety.