Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Below is 10 year old Nujood Ali from Yemen, full of joy and life. The picture above was taken by Stephanie Sinclair in Yemen, 2010 and shows her on the day that she learned that she was being granted a divorce from her much older abuse husband. Very courageously, she fled him and took a taxi by herself to the … Read more
It is often fun to dip in and see what this week’s daftest Islamic Fatwa is. You can always be sure that whenever you find a truly odd one and think “Nothing could possibly be weirder than this” then inevitably some cleric will pop up the very next week and prove you quite wrong about … Read more
The news in the UK at the moment is that a 23 year old Afghan man has been granted asylum on the sole basis that he does not believe in a god. The issue in play here is the Islamic belief that murdering those that once believed and no longer do is the duty of … Read more
Ed West has a nice article over in the Spectator entitled “Ex-Muslims are living the British dream – Britain should support them”. He writes … There was an excellent Radio 4 documentary on yesterday in which Sarfraz Manzoor interviewed a group of people you don’t hear much about – ex-Muslims. … the ex-Muslims are right. … Read more
The statistics from a July 29 House of Commons research report entitled, “Prison Population Statistics” show that the number of Muslim inmates in England and Wales jumped to 11,248 in 2012, up from 3,681 in 1997. To put that another way … over the past 15 years, the number of Muslims in British prisons has … Read more
The horrendous news is that Afghanistan wants to start stoning people in public for the crime of …. (can you guess) … murder? Nope, adultery. As reported by the Telegraph … Afghanistan is planning to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery 12 years after the Taliban was ousted from power, according to a new … Read more