The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.
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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Flemming Rose on why he published the cartoons
This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders.
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Nahid Toubia fights against FGM
‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’
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Anthony Grayling and Keith Ward
God didn’t do it, he wasn’t there at the time, and besides he’s sorry.
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The ‘Faith Community Liaison Group’
A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’.
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Cult Stud Suggests Put Down a Book Week
TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.
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Marieme Hélie-Lucas challenges the ‘coward Left’
Women in Algeria were slaughtered in the thousands by fundamentalist armed forces throughout the nineties, because they refused to be forcibly covered.
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Interview with Mukhtaran Mai
In their hearts these people were with us, but they were scared to show this.
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Flemming Rose on the cartoons
Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?
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Norm Geras on Minimum Utopia
A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.
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National Conference of Catholic Bishops on infants with anencephaly
It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.
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‘Whoever changes religion – kill him’
Sura 40 says that those who reject the scriptures will have iron collars and chains placed around their necks, be dragged into scalding water and burnt in the fire.
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Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption
The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement of Benazir Bhutto but they trace the pervasive role of her husband.
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Southern Baptist Seminary Offers ‘Homemaking’ Degree for Women
‘We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,’ seminary president said.
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Woman’s Hour on women in Afghanistan
Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.
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Scientist dismisses ‘detox’ diets
Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.
