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Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?

January 31, 2011 – 10:39 am

In reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]

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Angry Atheist Debate About A Mosque Near Ground Zerosts

June 7, 2010 – 1:30 pm

Saturday I put together a large post highlighting a spectrum of thoughtful and/or provocative opinions on the recently approved plan to build a mosque a couple of blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.  That day, for the sake of balance, I wanted to find someone who could [...]

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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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A Muslim Woman Against the Burqa

July 2, 2009 – 5:05 pm

From Feministing, worth reading in full: But then the argument goes: surely for the women who choose to wear the burqa, the garment is a choice not a tool for suppression. This argument obscures the fact that there is a pervasive, sexist propaganda in many Muslim communities in favor of the burqa. Many women are [...]

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To Ban Or Not To Ban

June 29, 2009 – 5:55 am

A youtube point-counterpoint on this topic (on which I am still interested in your thoughts).  Click here for Njustus’s stab at the topic and my attempt to play devil’s advocate against him. Pro-ban: Anti-ban: Your Thoughts?

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By Daniel Fincke | Posted in Atheism, Feminism, Pat Condell, Religion, Religious Rights, Women's Rights | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

France Considers Banning Burqas in Public and I Consider Haidt on Pluralism

June 28, 2009 – 12:00 pm

France, which has already banned headscarves in schools, purportedly as an effort to separate church and state, is now considering banning the burqa in public since it represents servitude and indignity for women (according to Sarkozy).  Click here for the full story and links to perspectives on the option. Would the effects of this be [...]

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