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Will Burqa Bans Around Europe Lead To Stricter Restrictions On Muslim’s Expression?

May 26, 2010 – 8:02 pm

An Australian report talking to mostly Muslim women in the first part: In the second video, we have a Muslim cleric claiming that bestiality is legal in America in 28 states, saying that Muslims are “superior beings” to non-Muslims, and that it is just for adulterers to be stoned: Your Thoughts?

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150 Women Face Flogging For Adultery

July 24, 2009 – 8:52 am

Heartwrenchingly disgusting: Almost 150 women living in the Maldives face a public flogging for indulging in extra-marital sex after being convicted by the Muslim country’s conservative courts. Around 50 men also face the punishment. Earlier this month, an 18-year-old woman fainted after she was flogged 100 times having been found guilty of having sex with [...]

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By Daniel Fincke | Posted in Fundamentalism, Islam, News, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Torture, Women's Issues | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Pat Condell Excoriates The Left For Not Standing Up To Islamism

July 24, 2009 – 5:35 am

There is a lot to chew on in this latest rant from Pat Condell on the need for the tolerant to be more intolerant of intolerant religions than they are intolerant of denouncers of intolerant religions.  While Condell’s  attack on multiculturalism is too broad and at times his rhetoric is cringe-inducingly counter-productive, I do share [...]

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Gay Rights and Persecution Around the World

July 4, 2009 – 9:01 am

Johann Hari celebrates the remarkable progress for gay rights, achieved through peaceful democratic pressure around the world in the 40 years since Stonewall.  But then he highlights some of the places where being gay means being murdered: Jamaica is Taliban Afghanistan for gay people. If caught, gays and lesbians face ten years’ hard labour – [...]

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