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Posted in Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jan 10th, 2008
I confess I have never been to Oxford, and have no personal interest in the city. However, I find myself writing about it for the fourth time in the past few months. It certainly seems to be hitting the news recently (see here and here and here).
The latest row has been caused by [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 4th, 2008
The following article is so sickening, I thought it deserved wider publication. I am grateful to the National Secular Society for bringing it to my attention. I have argued in this blog before that you should not deny people free speech, but rather give them enough rope and allow them to [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion, Society on Jan 2nd, 2008
There is an outcry going on in Oxford, UK, at the moment over Muslim plans to broadcast a loudspeaker call to prayer from a city centre mosque. A spokesman for the Central Mosque said that Muslim’s have the right to summon worshippers. They want to issue two minute calls, three times a day.
From [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Dec 22nd, 2007
The situation for women in Iran is likely to get even worse.
A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani (who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan) said on Wednesday that women in the country who do not wear the hijab should be killed.
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Dec 17th, 2007
You may remember the case of the Shia Muslim woman from the Qatif area who was raped at knife-point by seven men. Initially she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being found in the company of a man who was not her husband. When she appealed the case and went public with her ordeal, the [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Dec 14th, 2007
The Islamic regime in Iran have executed a teenage boy for being gay.
Makwan Moloudzadeh was executed last night (local time) in Dizel Abad Prison in the city of Kermanshah. He was executed for a sexual relations with a class mate when they were both 13. He was executed for being a homosexual.
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 Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion, Society on Dec 4th, 2007
‘Shunning’ is a good word. I like ’shunning’. It has something solid about it and sounds like what it does.
There was a lot of shunning this week in a very interesting article about morality in Time Magazine. Jeffrey Kluger argues that there are one or more of three main factors operating behind [...]
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.
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