“He shouted ‘listen up all of you, I am recording this, I have your faces on film now, and I know where some of you live’.”
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“He shouted ‘listen up all of you, I am recording this, I have your faces on film now, and I know where some of you live’.”
One Islamist filmed everyone at the meeting and announced he would hunt down those who said anything negative about Islam’s prophet.
The parody of “Angry Birds” throws a spotlight on dowry demands and harassment.
IKWRO is campaigning to bring an end to the practice. “The councils are dominated by men, who are making judgements in favour of men,” said Diana Nammi.
It’s disturbing that ‘leading’ barristers and newspapers can say Sharia is compatible with human rights whilst it amputates, stones to death, imposes veiling, and kills apostates.
“When a woman marches to defend her rights, this affronts her dignity.”
Women are allowed in the audience, in a section separate from men.
If a girl wants a construction set, how is making her feel abnormal going to encourage her – and her parents – to spend money at your store?
And on feminism, religion, debates about porn and abortion.
The police arrested both Gulnaz and her rapist. Under Afghan law she too was found guilty of a crime known as “adultery by force.”
We must examine what role authority figures play in failing to protect children from abuse or, worse, inciting violence against children.
She was best known for her ‘States of Fear’ series, which revealed the extent of physical and sexual abuse of children in Irish industrial schools and residential institutions.
After RTÉ broadcast Raftery’s States of Fear in 1999, the Ryan commission of inquiry into child abuse was set up, as was the Residential Institutions Redress Board.
The journalist whose television documentaries exposed decades of abuse of children in church-run industrial schools in Ireland.
The leaflet which formed the basis of the charges featured a hanged mannequin and claimed that “Allah permits the destruction” of those who allow homosexuality and those who practise it.
How dare a presidential candidate speak a second language! Presidents should be as pig-ignorant as possible!
It was only a matter of minutes, possibly seconds, before the smiles turned into a blur of pawing, grabbing hands. In broad daylight, on a street in a busy business district.
“shes not human shes garbage” “I’ll drop anchor on her face” “i cant wait to hear about you getting curb stomped” “what a little bitch lol I wanna snuff her”
The religious context transforms religious rituals from something optional and arbitrary into something necessary and grounded.
Readers do not care about the epistemological differences between lies and weasel words; we want newspapers to limit the ability of politicians to make dubious assertions without penalty.