by Heather Hastie | Apr 6, 2017 | Australia, Freedom of Speech, New Zealand
joint post by Jerry Coyne and Heather Hastie New Zealand is dealing with the tail-end of Cyclone Debbie at the moment. (It made a huge mess of north-west Australia recently.) There’s very heavy rain all across the North Island and the north of the South...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 4, 2017 | Freedom of Speech
You may remember my posts late last year about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’. Here are the links: Why Maajid Nawaz Shouldn’t be in SPLC’s ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ Why Ayaan...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 6, 2016 | Freedom of Speech
On 25 October the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’. The guide includes a list of fifteen people, two of whom have caused a great deal of controversy – Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ahnaf Kalam...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 5, 2016 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Religion
On 25 October the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’. The guide includes a list of fifteen people, two of whom have caused a great deal of controversy – Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Change.org...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 1, 2016 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights
Most of you will have heard about the outrageous action of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently. On 25 October they produced a Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. Just producing a list of people to hate is bad enough, especially in a climate when anyone...
