You go, grrrlz! Post-revolution gangs of young men trying to enforce Sharia law in the Nile delta town of Benha, Egypt, found themselves on the receiving end this week. According to reports in the Egyptian news media: Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt …
Tag Archive: religion
Dec 27 2011
Mythical Being Launches Attack on Ministries’ Finances
Right Wing Watch reports that, for the third straight year, conservative activist pastor Rod Parsley is pleading with his congregation to send him money. Nothing new there, you’d think—he is a televangelist, after all, and asking his flock to part with their own money is something they do all the time. What surprised me is that Parsley …
Nov 17 2011
Damian Goddard, fired for tweeting
Damian Goddard was a Toronto-based broadcaster for Sportsnet who was fired from his job six months ago for a tweet he posted on his personal Twitter account, expressing his views that only marriage between a man and a woman is a “true” marriage. The posting on Twitter was in support of hockey agent Todd Reynolds’ …
Oct 13 2011
Welcome, Pharyngulistas!
If you’re dropping by from PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula, after he posted my article on why I’m an atheist, then welcome! And this is where I’d originally posted that article back in 2009.
Apr 12 2009
No more Easter Bunny for me
Easter Sunday was a good day for us when we were kids, second only to Christmas Day. We couldn’t wait to get home after Mass to unwrap our chocolate eggs! We’d remain in our Sunday best most of the day, as family and friends filed through my parents’ house for tea and biscuits. The religious …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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