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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, 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 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 [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Religion on Mar 4th, 2008
Less than a month after the Archbishop of Canterbury caused some consternation in the UK by suggesting that the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law was unavoidable, a US court judge made a ruling which seems to imply that in some cases accommodation with Roman Catholic canon law should be considered.
In 2004, Dennis Riccitelli, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Jan 18th, 2008
Just in case you have ever wondered why women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive in that country, a group of Saudi men recently gave an answer. It formed part of a submission to the UN’s Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
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