A few months ago, there was a proposed law in Afghanistan for the Shia minority that would have forced Afghani women to have sex with their husbands. Not only did the law pass, it’s worse than we thought. Last week, though, Human Rights Watch discovered that a revised version of the Shiite Personal Status Law [...]
Muslim Politician Saqib Ali Supports Gay Marriage
August 17, 2009 By 19 Comments
Saqib Ali is a practicing Muslim who attended high school in Saudi Arabia. It’s very impressive that he was elected to the state legislature in Maryland in the first place. Even more amazing than that is this: Now the Democratic delegate has come out in support of gay marriage, a position he announced publicly in [...]
Humpty Dumpty Religious Liberals
August 13, 2009 By 19 Comments
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … My organization, the Secular Coalition for America, is sending me to Netroots Nation this weekend in Pittsburgh. I have to miss the first day – it starts on a Thursday – but it [...]
The Muhammad Cartoons Won’t Be Included in a Book About the Muhammad Cartoons
August 13, 2009 By 29 Comments
Almost four years ago, these cartoons of Muhammad appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and created an uproar: Many fundamentalist Muslims took to violence because of the depictions, which they felt were forbidden according to the Koran. (Though there’s more to that explanation.) Of course, their religious beliefs have no bearing on how the rest [...]
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