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// Atrocities committed in the name of religion continue to plague the world. Despite many believers’ claims to the contrary, the fact that travesties of justice and violations of human dignity occur day in and day out on this planet, indicates that the religions of this world—established or otherwise—are still fostering psychotic behavior, as much [...]
// I recently visited a WordPress blog (which will remain unnamed to protect the innocent) in which a western woman wrote that in her travels in some regions of India, she had a tough time finding the women. She found few walking around in public, dining in restaurants or visiting the beach. Whenever she did [...]
// The recent news of financial crisis in the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world offers everybody the opportunity to take a closer look at that shining city in the Gulf. Dubai—that outwardly gorgeous, irresistibly tax-free haven of opportunity and prosperity—is, and has been for a long time, a profound sham. Perhaps nowhere [...]
// Many religious people like to claim that a development for the appreciation of human rights, civil rights, and the like originated from religion. They point to this passage in the Bible, or that page of the Quran, or the leadership of various religious figures from Bartolome de las Casas to Martin Luther King Jr, [...]
