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The CICA Report
What happened in Irish industrial schools.

Women Under Theocracy
Religion and culture function to shield the oppression of women from criticism.

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Is it forbidden to 'offend the religious feelings of believers'?

Einstein’s Wife: Mileva Marić
Feel-good history strikes again.

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Where to find everything B&W isn't.

Hindutva on the Attack
Campaigns to silence, intimidate, or destroy scholars and scholarship.

Hear the Noise
Will a tv drama make the fear of the MMR jab even worse?

Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

Flashback

Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
Revulsion at Blair talking about 'faith' crystallises a key failing of the left.

Letter from a Birmingham jail
King tells fellow clergymen the world is in dire need of creative extremists.

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Notes and Comment
Blogging Butterflies and Wheels style. And your chance to disagree with us!
Last Updated:03-07-2009

Bad Moves
Philosopher Julian Baggini's column on bad argumentative moves.
Last Updated:25-10-2005

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Sarah Palin as 'Diva' and 'Whack Job'
A public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded.
Date filed: 03-07-2009

FMU Urges Schools to be Aware of Signs
New guidance is being published urging schools to identify signs of forced marriages ahead of the holidays.
Date filed: 03-07-2009

The Stoning of Soraya M.
'I wanted people to never forget what a stoning really is.' It's not just one rock and it's over.
Date filed: 03-07-2009

Moses Just Loves the Burqa
Mo on the other hand suddenly finds his getting stuffy.
Date filed: 03-07-2009

Jesus and Mo on Science-Religion Compatibility
Dudes it's so totally easy.
Date filed: 03-07-2009

Articles

Fool’s Gold: Reflections on the Great Crunch
By Max Dunbar
When bankers talk about derivatives, they delight in swathing the concept in complex jargon.
Date filed: 25-06-2009

Iran: Myths and Realities
By Azar Majedi
What do the people want? More than the mainsteam media admit.
Date filed: 24-06-2009

The Movement Improves in Iran
By Jahanshah Rashidian
Iranian youth do not want to risk their lives for the survival of an undemocratic theocracy.
Date filed: 23-06-2009

Iran’s Post-Election
By Jahanshah Rashidian
Khamenei has constantly said each vote is above all a "yes to the Islamic regime."
Date filed: 21-06-2009

Unveil Women in Iran!
By Azar Majedi
It is high time to throw the veils out.
Date filed: 20-06-2009

Gina Khan's Diary
By Gina Khan
June 17: Theology is being used to underpin women's oppression in the modern West.
Date filed: 17-06-2009

Reinforcing presumed religious identities
By Marieme Helie Lucas
Where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama's speech in Cairo?
Date filed: 07-06-2009

The Goldenbridge Secret Rosary Bead Factory
By Marie-Therese O'Loughlin
An orphanage that was really a child-labour camp.
Date filed: 20-05-2009

Goldenbridge II
By Marie-Therese O'Loughlin
Education at an Industrial School.
Date filed: 20-05-2009

Measuring the Books: Truth Claims in Islam and its Others
By R. Joseph Hoffmann
All religions make truth claims, which are supported by a set of rationales.
Date filed: 11-05-2009

Religious Disagreements and False Allegations of Anti-Semitism
By Edmund Standing
Assertions about the superiority of Christianity should be challenged, but accusations of anti-Semitism are not the way to do it.
Date filed: 09-05-2009

Amusements

Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense.

Woolly-Thinking Rhetoric
How to argue like a sheep. Vanquish your enemies with the help of our guide.

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Euphemisms and Obfuscations
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