Indigo Jo on July 12th, 2009

Does God Hate Women? is a 178-page tirade by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, editors of the atheist website Butterflies and Wheels, co-authors of A Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense and both senior editors on The Philosophers’ Magazine, on religious misogyny, with a particular focus on Muslims (more than on Islam, as we will see insha […]

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Indigo Jo on June 1st, 2009

Today’s Observer carried an opinion piece by the co-author of a book called Does God Hate Women?, to be published by Continuum this week, which gives a brief list of the worst things religious people have done in the past century or so. (The book probably has quite a few more examples.) The […]

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Indigo Jo on May 27th, 2009

BBC NEWS Magazine: Clive James on feminism and democracy

Clive James is arguing that the reason feminists are not loud on the issue of promoting democracy abroad when the alternatives are far worse for women is because this reminds them that there is an intractable difference between the genders after all:

Democracy is the best […]

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Indigo Jo on May 26th, 2009

Why are the authorities refusing to fund France’s oldest Muslim school, now facing bankruptcy? | Education | The Guardian

Today’s Guardian Education supplement on how bigots in a north Paris education authority are using bureaucratic methods to deny a Muslim school funding, forcing it to the verge of bankruptcy. Despite the supposedly strict separation of […]

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Indigo Jo on November 1st, 2008

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Indigo Jo on May 29th, 2007

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Indigo Jo on January 7th, 2007

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