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In April of this year the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) and Karma Nirvana, with state funding, launched a helpline for those forced into marriages and dealing with other ‘honour’ based violence. It is staffed by experienced volunteers, and in the five months since it has been set up, it has received hundreds of calls, with an average of 62 a week.

A furore around faith schools has once again been generated, this time in conjunction with the launch of Accord, a new coalition of organisations that oppose state-funded faith schools. Accord would like to see a world of no state funding for any school that discriminates in its intake on grounds of

From National Catholic Register By Mark Shea Show me a person who cannot distinguish cleverness from wisdom or a good brain from a good heart, and I will show you somebody who is a fool. These words to live by returned to mind a few weeks back when I read a complaint piece on Apocalypto by a scholar specializing in Mayan civilization.

Aboriginal Sexism: No Didgeridoo for Girls September 3rd, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Cultural Relativism, Culture, Gender, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Patriarchy, Sexism, Social Exclusion, Social Inequalities, Social Privileges, Social Stratification, Symbolic Violence

Christ Against the Multiculturalists - Stephen H. Webb, FIRST THINGS, the journal of religion, culture and public life, 6 May, 2008. Sau despre cum multiculturalismul distruge educatia. Whether it is called multiculturalism, social constructionism, or left-leaning liberalism, the bottom line is that higher education in America these days promotes cultural relativism.

I've got to ask Why is the head of the Islamic Society of North America, an organization supportive of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood (PDF) and an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation on charges of funding Hamas, addressing the Democratic national convention today? Apparently, they don't know much about her -- or choose not to look.

I've got to ask Why is the head of the Islamic Society of North America, an organization supportive of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood (PDF) and an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation on charges of funding Hamas, addressing the Democratic national convention today? Apparently, they don't know much about her -- or choose not to look.

Last Friday the Muslim Council of Britain disassociated itself from the new mariage contract drawn up by the Muslim Institute with the aim of addressing gender imbalances in current Shari’a marriage contracts after having initially backed it.

Over 2000 people demonstrated in Iran against ‘honour’ killings, after a man killed his daughter for seeking a divorce from a marriage which she had been forced into with her uncle. More pictures here.

Internet companies have come under pressure from India’s Supreme Court to justify carrying advertisements for gender selection products: “India bans tests that allow people to know the gender of unborn children - a law designed to tackle widespread abortion of female foetuses.