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Posted in Government, Humanity, Law, Politics, Terrorism on Aug 21st, 2009
There are strong reasons in favour of releasing Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of killing 270 people when Pan AM Flight 103 exploded over the skies of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. However, to my mind, there are more compelling reasons for keeping him in prison.
The two strongest arguments for releasing him have [...]
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 Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Terrorism on Jun 13th, 2008
Yesterday a British court convicted the wife of a failed suicide bomber for failing to tell police about his plans for an attack on the London underground system. A jury in London found 32-year-old Yeshi Girma guilty of failing to provide information before her husband Hussain Osman and others attempted to set off explosions [...]
Posted in Humanity, Language, Relationships, Terrorism on Jun 5th, 2008
Later today Peter Hain, MP, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, will deliver a lecture at the New York University Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies on whether the model for peacemaking that was used in Northern Ireland can be applied to other conflict situations throughout the world. A central thesis of his [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Terrorism on May 5th, 2008
There were some events that I just never expected to happen during my lifetime - the ending of Apartheid in South Africa and the decline of Communism in Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example. Thankfully, sometimes seemingly impossible things do happen, though I never thought the ‘Irish Question’ would ever [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Dec 6th, 2007
Myth 1: Without religion we would have no moral values and our society would be worse off.
Surely, the argument goes, the benefit of having a god in your life is that it gives you rules to live by. “If God does not exist then everything is permissible,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, without the threat [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Philosophy, Religion, Terrorism on Dec 1st, 2007
By now some of you have doubtless heard the one about the teddy bear who was called “Paddington” because his owners didn’t want to end up being beheaded for calling him “St. Pancras”. (You probably have to be a Brit. to get that joke, so don’t worry if its cultural references pass you by. [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Religion, Terrorism on Nov 28th, 2007
As a follow-up to my recent posting on Ayaan Hirsi Ali (’the refugee who rocked Islam’), I would encourage you to read an article in the Independent today. Click here.
Posted in Censorship, Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Nov 24th, 2007
A 29-year-old man from Straubing, Bavaria, is facing a 3 year jail sentence for giving his dog a haircut.
It was not clear if the man, who has not commented on the markings, had shown the dog in public, a police spokesman said.
“That still needs to be proved,” he said. “If he only kept the dog inside [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Religion, Terrorism on Nov 18th, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the world’s most visible critic of Islam and surely the most courageous champion of women’s rights now living in the United States. In 2005, TIME included her in its list of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. For the crime of speaking honestly about the bigotry and intolerance that still thrive [...]
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