So Egypt is doomed. Islamists control two thirds of the seats in the People’s Assembly. In other words, the Assembly is in the hands of avowed theocrats. The final results in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections confirm an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number …
Tag Archive: Theocracy
Jan 03 2012
Orthodoxy v freedom
Jonathan Turley was on the case in the Los Angeles Times in December. This week in Washington, the United States is hosting an international conference obliquely titled “Expert Meeting on Implementing the U.N. Human Rights Resolution 16/18.” The impenetrable title conceals the disturbing agenda: to establish international standards for, among other things, criminalizing “intolerance, negative …
Jan 03 2012
Wtf
I don’t normally like to agree with Republican Representatives, but I’m afraid this one time I’m going to have to. Actually I think I’ll see his bet and raise it. A US lawmaker has urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to push back against the “criminalization of speech deemed critical of Islam” at a meeting …
Dec 28 2011
We have to base our behaviour according to scripture
It appears that David Cameron is jealous of theocracy. He wants him some of that extra goddy power! Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK is a Christian country “and we should not be afraid to say so” in a speech in Oxford on the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible…. And he …
Dec 14 2011
Bishops run amok
Laura Bassett on the power of the bishops. Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women finds it troubling that a group of men that has historically denied women the opportunity to participate in leadership positions is exercising so much power over such a broad range of women’s reproductive health legislation.
Dec 10 2011
Tenets of Islam are not subject to change
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay went to the Maldives, and there she said some things. She said some things relevant to human rights. In an address delivered in parliament last Thursday, Pillay said the practice of flogging women found guilty of extra-marital sex “constitutes one of the most inhumane and degrading forms …
Dec 03 2011
More whacked-out causation
They seem to have a shaky grasp on what causes what, in Saudi Arabia. A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country. See? That’s bizarre. If Saudi women drove, babies would be born non-virgins? How? How …
Dec 01 2011
And they lived happily ever after
Oh how sweet, Hamid Karzai has pardoned a woman who was serving a 12 year prison sentence for…arson? Armed robbery? GBH? No; for being raped. That’s what women who are raped get in Afghanistan (and not only there): they get long prison sentences, and that’s if they’re lucky; the less fortunate ones get stoned to …
Nov 17 2011
It’s a holy city with sensitivities
What is theocracy fundamentally (you should excuse the word) all about? Men on top. Nothing else is as central, as obsessive, as enforced, as nagged about. Witness Jerusalem. Posters depicting women have become rare in the streets of Israel’s capital. In some areas, women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks, and buses and health clinics …
Nov 08 2011
18, 19, 20!
Oh hey, what exciting news, the Duggars are going to have child # 20 – that is, Michelle Duggar is pregnant with child # 20. Quiverfull strikes another blow for theocracy. The Quiverfull movement places emphasis on the importance of women submitting to their husbands and fathers, and is often recognized as a backlash to …
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