by Heather Hastie | Dec 20, 2015 | Auē a Tau Kē
I celebrate Christmas. Not Christ’s mass, but all the other stuff. I have a big Christmas tree with lights and decorations, other decorations around the house, and my front windows all have lights in them to delight passers by. New Zealand pretty much closes...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 18, 2015 | Religion
I saw something I consider falls into the category of “great news” yesterday: in 2016 the new Harry Potter prequel is coming out. I love the Harry Potter books and movies and I’ve been looking forward to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for a...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 13, 2015 | Human Rights, Middle East
As most of you will already know, Raif Badawi is a Saudi Arabian blogger who was sentenced to ten years prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing his country’s form of government. As the country’s law is Sharia, that amounts to criticizing Islam and is thus...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 13, 2015 | Auē a Tau Kē, US Politics
It’s about time really. Ever since he entered the race to become the Republican party’s candidate for the 2016 presidency, Donald Trump has been abusing and insulting just about every demographic imaginable. Despite that, he has continued to mostly lead...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 8, 2015 | Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East
I’ve written about the appalling justice system in Saudi Arabia before in The Injustice of Sharia in Saudi Arabia and also specifically about the case of Raif Badawi, a blogger serving a sentence of ten years and 1,000 lashes simply for disagreeing with the type...