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Posted in Faith, Literature, Religion, Science on Jan 25th, 2010
Although it is nearly 24 hours since I watched the first in Channel 4’s new series, The Bible: A History, I still find myself annoyed at the mere memory of it. It ended up being more of the aspirational wishful thinking of a romantic presenter than the history deceptively portrayed in the title.
The first quarter [...]
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for wearing trousers, now some in Somalia are being whipped for wearing bras.
According to press reports:
A HARDLINE Islamist [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jul 15th, 2009
I know. It’s easy for me. I’m a man. I don’t have to wear the things. My gender is the one that has largely tried to dictate over the centuries how women should dress. I write what I am about to write with appropriate trepidation and guilt.
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality on May 8th, 2009
British newspapers appear to be making a big story out of a recent Royal decision to take note of modern Britain.
Some Hindus and Muslims objected to the name and the insignia of an honour established by the Queen 40 years ago to recognise distinguished service in the former colony of Trinidad and Tobago. The Trinity [...]
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 Faith, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships on Feb 5th, 2009
Community nurse Caroline Petrie, a Christian nurse from Weston-super-Mare, has been suspended for offering to pray for an elderly patient’s recovery. She asked the patient if she wanted prayer after she had dressed the patient’s wounds. The patient complained to the North Somerset Primary Care Trust. The nurse was suspended, without pay, on [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion on Dec 17th, 2008
Because of its importance, I have copied below an item from last Friday’s National Secular Society’s Newsletter in full. There is a call for people to sign a petition at the end. Please consider doing so.
One Law for All campaign launches with call for new legislative curbs on sharia courts
New legislation may be needed to [...]
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 [...]
Just suppose that somebody noticed a slight (but statistically significant) increase in the number of aircraft near-misses and crashes that were occurring. And just suppose, that after rigorous examination of the evidence it was found that there was a clear trend in the increase in human error as being a factor in many of these [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Human Rights, Religion on Jul 6th, 2008
A few weeks ago, comedy writer Ariane Sherine wrote a piece in the Guardian expressing her view that Londoners were being forced to face disturbing religious messages when they trundled half-awake to work each morning because Christians had paid to have quotes from the bible displayed on buses.
She wrote:
There was also a web address on [...]
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