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Homily: An Ill-Informed Feminist Attacks Jerry Coyne (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True‘ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real feminist‘. It’s about, “… Anna Muzychuk, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who holds the women’s […]

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27 Sep 2017: Daily Homily and Tweets

Heather Hastie — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:49:13 +0000

As you can see, there’s a new name in the title: Homily. I’m not sure how that’s going to work – I’m just trying it on for size at this stage. The content of the post won’t change. There’ll still be plenty of tweets on display. The big news of the day for me is […]

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Is Islam a Feminist Religion?

Heather Hastie — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 03:25:36 +0000

Short answer: No, Islam is not a feminist religion. There are more and more women who are trying to convince us Islam is feminist. Their logic seems to be they’re feminist, they’re Muslim, therefore Islam is a feminist religion. But as we all know, correlation doesn’t equal causation. In my opinion, these women are trying […]

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Egypt 1958: Mockery of the Idea of Compulsory Hijab

Heather Hastie — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:16:02 +0000

This video about requiring women to wear the hijab is from a tweet by Ali A Rizvi with the comment “How times have changed.” It’s from 1958 and has been around for a while, but I think it deserves as much attention as possible. It’s a portion of a speech from Egyptian president Gamel Abdel […]

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More Delusions About Religion

Heather Hastie — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:31:10 +0000

I saw this Letter to the Editor in George Takei’s Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not sure which newspaper it’s from, but it’s probably an Australian one because the writer is from Kalangadoo, which is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It’s not easy to read, so here’s my re-typing of it: If you are worried […]

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Auē Tēnei Wiki: Saudi Therapist Gives Advice on Wife Beating

Heather Hastie — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 04:16:31 +0000

Over and over again conservative representatives of Islam try to tell us that not only are women respected within their religion, they are more respected than women in secular countries. Any criticism of the treatment of women is dismissed as lack of understanding, or misunderstanding. Up to a point I can understand these attitudes displayed […]

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Auē Tēnei Wiki: Saudi Cleric Says Posting Pictures on Social Media Can Cause Cancer

Heather Hastie — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:42:18 +0000

Just when you thought the most ridiculous thing you’d read this year so far was my post about Saudi cleric Ali Al-Maliki confidently asserting that the West tampers with burgers so more female babies will be born there, I can go one better. According to MEMRI TV (Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project): […]

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Saudi Arabian Cleric Ali Al-Malki: West Tampers With Burgers So More Girls Will Be Born

Heather Hastie — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 23:32:47 +0000

This should be this week’s Auē Tēnei Wiki, because it really does deserve a big face palm, but the title is long enough already. From MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) we have another example of the kind of delusion often spread about the West in the Middle East. Imam Ali Al-Malki seems to sincerely […]

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#SueMeSaudi

Heather Hastie — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:20:51 +0000

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 of governance that prevails in the country. More and more, […]

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Winner of the Week – 1 November 2015: Raif Badawi

Heather Hastie — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:16:49 +0000

It was announced on Thursday that Raif Badawi won the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize. The Guardian reports : Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, has won the EU’s Sakharov prize for human rights. The announcement was greeted on Thursday with […]

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