Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Bangladesh blogger Asif Mohiuddin was brutally stabbed by the Islamists, and then arrested for the crime of being an atheist. He was let out on bail on 27th June and had applied for permanent bail, but the Dhaka Tribune now reports … A Dhaka court on Monday afternoon sent blogger Asif Mohiuddin to jail, rejecting his plea … Read more
The BBC has an interesting little article all about temporary Islamic marriages, or to be more precise, temporary short term marriage as practised within Shia Islam called Nikāḥ al-Mutʿah; that’s Arabic for “pleasure marriage”, and that name perhaps gives you an insight into what this is really all about. The BBC article takes the following line … … Read more
Last March interior designer Marte Deborah Dalelv was raped while on a business trip to Dubai, so she reported it to the police. The result … she was arrested, put on trail, and then sentenced this week to 16 months in jail … Why? Well basically because she was guilty of having sex outside of … Read more
The Islamc month of Ramadan has started. This is a period when Muslims fast and pray for an entire month. OK, first lets clear up a few items, here is a very brief list of things that sometimes confuse non-Muslims: Yes, they are going to fast for a whole month … but only when the … Read more
There is a story in the Times of India about a new search engine that has been launched in Pakistan called “Halalgoogling”. Basically it does a search using Google or Bing, then filters out un-Islamic content in order to render Islamic approved results. I tried it out, and sure enough it does what it claims … Read more
Victoria Brittain, former associate foreign editor of the Guardian, writes an article in which she claims that, Abu Qatada, the religious thug that we finally managed to deport, is a jolly nice chap and has been rather unfortunate to have had a bit of bad press … The home secretary, prime minister, mayor of London and countless … Read more