Notes, journal, diary, blog, arguments, beliefs, cogitations, comments, considerations, contemplations, criticisms, daydreams, deliberations, engrossments, musings, opinions, phlogs, poems, points, rantings (occasional), reflections, ruminations, satire, wit, and pensiveness of a thinking man.
Posted in Human Rights, Religion, Society on Jun 18th, 2008
Sarah Desrosiers has my sympathy and support. She is a small business owner. She has been in business less than a year and a half. Already she has been sued for £35,000 (far more than she earns in a year). Although she lost the case, the tribunal did manage to reduce [...]
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 Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jun 1st, 2008
It’s been a bad week for women, and therefore a bad week for humanity too. (”So what’s new?” some of you may be asking.)
Doubtless there are more atrocious stories than the ones below (for example, accounts of rape and mutilation and oppression in far distant countries), but the two which penetrated my radar were [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Apr 28th, 2008
There was a report by Ruth Gledhill in the TimesOnline of a British citizen who was harassed when he converted to Christianity from Islam and who was then not taken seriously when he complained to the police. When locals threatened to burn his house down he was told by officers to “stop being a [...]
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 [...]
There are many people who chose to base their lives around a particular religious text. This religious text may contain writing composed thousands of years ago (in the case of the bible, composed over thousands of years). They choose to use this text to determine what they eat and wear, who they marry [...]
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have occasionally been fairly scathing about certain aspects of the Roman Catholic church. I simply find it mind-blowingly incomprehensible that in the twenty-first century, intelligent adults are still promoting the alleged miraculous power of dead people or of dead people’s clothes or of other [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion on Feb 12th, 2008
Whatever you call it - heart, soul, mind - it is sacred to you, influenced by outsiders, yes, but controlled only by you. They can only reach it if you allow them to. It is yours and yours alone. You alone have the final say. Yours is what makes you, you: [...]
In the middle of the current extreme perplexity and unease at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks that the adoption of part of Shiria law in Britain was in unavoidable, it has been good to find a voice of calm and reason - coming from a Muslim living in Wales.
Sharia law – which is only used [...]
Posted in Art, Censorship, Health, Human Rights, Internet, Religion on Feb 9th, 2008
“What’s right for me is compulsory for you!” At least, that’s what it is beginning to feel like. It seems that some Muslims are trying to insist that their views are given way to when they come into contact with another viewpoint. There doesn’t seem to be much room for accommodation to [...]
Uncategorized Travel Time Wasting Therapy Terrorism Television Technology Society Science Religion Relationships Psychology Productivity Politics Poems Photography Philosophy Other Blogs Mortality Morality Literature Law Language Isolation iPhone 3G iPhone Internet Humour Humor Human Rights Humanity Health Government Faith Existential Education Creativity Censorship Business Art
Shared Reads