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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Morality, Society, Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2008
I have reprinted below an appeal by Amnesty International on behalf of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Democratic Republic of Congo: Abuse and arbitrary detention of women political activists
Politically motivated arrests in the country have been particularly high since the first democratic elections in 2006. There have been widespread reports of supporters from opposition [...]
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, Law, Morality, Religion on Feb 8th, 2008
It’s Friday, and I am again indebted to the National Secular Society’s newsletter for the following information. After you have read it, please consider following the link to send an appeal to the Iranian authorities to stop the stoning of Zohreh and Azar Kabiti-niat.
Iranian Sisters face being stoned to death
Two Iranian sisters [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Religion on Jan 31st, 2008
A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. Kim Sengupta of The Independent reports:
The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but [...]
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.
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, 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 Education, Government, Health, Human Rights on Dec 2nd, 2007
I think it is at least a triple rather than a double whammy.
Let Kousalya Periasamy tell her story:
In 1995, at the age of 20, I was forced to marry my cousin because my father wanted the ancestral property to remain within the family. Unknown to me my husband was HIV positive. Just 45 days after [...]
If you had a personal relationship with a divine being, wouldn’t you want to know what she or he wanted? I mean, how can you have a personal relationship if the other being doesn’t communicate - certainly theoretically possible (just about), but practically very difficult. I mean, I might need to know if God wants [...]
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