Category: Flashback

Gay rights are part of the Orientalist project.

The people of the whole valley feel themselves hostage to the firebrand Maulana Fazlullah

More than 60% of marriages are forced; 57% of women marry under the age of 16.

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.

Very nasty stuff

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.

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.

Countless women in DRC have been raped and mangled, then shunned.

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.

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

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

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.

Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Chills the blood.