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Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 13th, 2009
Press Release from the One Law for All Campaign
One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London’s Hyde Park. The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and elsewhere, show solidarity with people living under and resisting Sharia, and to defend universal rights and secularism.
Simultaneous [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Existential, Science on Sep 27th, 2009
The feathers of the Malaysian peacock pheasant were stunning. The display had lit them in the centre of the room so that they looked like a metallic sculpture. I wanted to take the work of art home.
The Darwin Exhibition is running at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for few more days. My visit yesterday, on [...]
Posted in Censorship, Creativity, Human Rights, Isolation, Literature, Religion on May 5th, 2009
Ok. I have a confession to make. And I feel the need to point out that I did the deed during a difficult time in my life. But I have to admit that I have bought and read all of Dan Brown’s books.
I turned to the The Da Vinci Code for some light relief and [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Religion on May 1st, 2009
In 2007, Kareem Amer, an Egyptian blogger, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty on several charges including ‘sedition’ and ‘incitement to hatred of Islam’. In March of this year, Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, a young Afghan journalist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Kabul’s supreme court for the crime of blasphemy. Kambakhsh’s [...]
Posted in Censorship, Faith, Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion on Mar 14th, 2009
A new proposal from Islamic states was circulated amongst Geneva diplomats last week as they attended the current session of the UN Human Rights Council. It is entitled “Combating defamation of religions,” and mentions only Islam. If adopted it would define any questioning of Islamic dogma as a human rights violation, which would intimidate dissenting [...]
Posted in Censorship, Faith, Government, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Feb 15th, 2009
As the debate about the British Government’s refusal to allow Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, into the UK to attend a showing of his controversial film ‘Fitna’ has raged, I have wanted to write, but found myself unable to do so. It has taken time for the dust to settle in my head. Part [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Religion, Society on Oct 13th, 2008
I was concerned to read recently in the New Scotsman that there are discussions taking place about the possible introduction of Sharia courts in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Qamar Bhatti, director of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT), which runs the courts, admitted discussions were taking place with lawyers and Muslim community groups.
If this happens, the Scottish [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Language, Religion, Society, Television on May 8th, 2008
It’s about control, control, control! Why won’t they leave us alone?
It seems that almost everywhere you look religious authorities are trying to impose their conclusions about how they think people should behave, what they should say, how they should dress, what they should or should not do with their sexual desires on people who [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Politics, Religion on Mar 16th, 2008
It took an arcane debate to the hasten the end of an arcane law, but that is what happened in the House of Lords on Wednesday 5 March when an amendment to repeal the UK blasphemy law was finally passed (148 votes to 87). The Christian tenets of the Church of England will no [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion, Society on Mar 7th, 2008
There are often calls for banning by ‘blind’ people who want to ban others but ensure that their own work is never banned. In their self-righteousness they fail to see the contradictions in their own position.
A recent example is Geert Wilders, the far-right founder of the Party for Freedom. Appealing to the higher [...]
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