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Posted in Government, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Feb 9th, 2010
Here’s something. Imagine you live in a community where you are expected to pay into a fund that is used to meet various needs in the community - the upkeep of roads, salaries for nurses and teachers, and community hospitality, for example. Then it transpires that you are about to receive a visit from a [...]
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.
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 Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Society on Aug 16th, 2008
At the risk of being considered a pervert or a sexual deviant, I need to write about knickers (or panties, as my American cousins would apparently call them).
Sue Relf, from Broadstairs, Kent, went into the local Asda store and bought some underwear for her seven year old granddaughter. When she got the garments home home [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jul 9th, 2008
I can understand where they are coming from, even though I profoundly disagree with them.
If you believe something strongly, you want to be consistent. The argument goes, if you decide to take your rules from the book, you then can’t pick and choose which rules you want to follow.
That seems to be the position taken [...]
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 [...]
I’m doing ‘rest and recouperation’ for a few days, but until my return, I thought I would leave you with a delightful photo to contemplate. I reproduce Friendly Atheist’s posting for your enjoyment.
Let’s analyze:
Child-molesting heterosexuals are ok.
Jews are fine, but Jews from that one synagogue are evil.
Atheists aren’t on his list. Yay!
Dykes on [...]
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, [...]
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