Obscurantism

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• UK: The Census cuts non-religious people in half!
  5 November 2010, by siawi2
  Source: The British Humanist Association http://census-campaign.org.uk/
  THE CENSUS CAMPAIGN
  IF YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS, FOR GOD’S SAKE, SAY SO
  WHY YOU SHOULD TICK ’NO RELIGION’ IN 2011 IF YOU’RE NOT RELIGIOUS
  The census data on religion produced  (...)
• Gambia: religious & traditional values vs defenders of women’s bodily rights
  14 October 2010, by siawi2
  Following the arrest, and the detention of the Executive Director of GAMCOTRAP Dr. Isatou Touray, and her Assistant Amie Bojang Sissoho, families of the detainees are calling on the administration of President Yahya Jammeh to release the  (...)
• Turkey: Science State Council halts publication of evolution books
  25 January 2013, by siawi3

  The evolutionist books have long been listed as “out of stock” on TÜBİTAK’s website, but their further publication are now slated to be stopped permanently.

• Québec : une cinglante réponse aux analphabètes relativistes culturels
  2 March 2010, by siawi2
  SOCIOLOGIE DU VÊTEMENT 101
  par Daniel Baril, anthropologue, journaliste universitaire et militant laïque
  Le 3 février dernier, un groupe d’universitaires lançait son Manifeste pour un Québec pluraliste qui est un appel à l’acceptation des signes  (...)
• Arabie Saoudite : une réjouissante critique de ’la loi de dieu’
  28 janvier 2010, par siawi2
  Wajiha Al-Howeidar, une Saoudienne qui n’a pas la langue dans sa poche
  L’écrivaine saoudienne contestataire Wajiha Al-Howeidar sait mieux que quiconque les conditions draconiennes imposées aux femmes du royaume. Elle refuse notamment de s’estimer  (...)
• Malaysia : Islamic or not, caning women is just not right!
  18 March 2010, by siawi2
  Source : http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/news/general/3392-islamic-or-not-caning-women-is-just-not-right
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:42 By Jeswan Kaur
  Something has gone wrong, if speaking on behalf of oppressed Muslim women by  (...)
• USA: Abortion Amendment ’Throws Women Under Bus’ Say Activists
  1 December 2009, by siawi2

  Rights advocates Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill.

• Indonesia: Government official blames people’s ’immorality’ for natural disaster
  1 December 2009, by siawi2
  MINISTER SAYS IMMORALITY CAUSES DISASTERS
  Source: BBC News 30/11/2009 4:59 pm
  A government minister has blamed Indonesia’s recent string of natural disasters on people’s immorality.
  Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring said  (...)
• Attack on Biology
  28 June 2007, by siawi

  Clearly science needs close and ongoing scrutiny, and in the past decade or two there has been a healthy boom in science studies and criticism. Scholars such as Evelyn Fox Keller, Sandra Harding, Emily Martin and Donna Haraway have offered useful critiques of the biases and ethnocentric metaphors that can skew everything from hypothesis formation to data collection techniques. Feminists (one of the authors included) have deconstructed medicine and psychology for patriarchal biases; left-leaning biologists such as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and Ruth Hubbard have exposed misapplications of biology to questions of social policy. However, contemporary antibiologists decry a vast range of academic pursuits coming from very different theoretical corners — from hypotheses about the effects of genes and hormones, to arguments about innate cognitive modules and grammar, to explorations of universal ritual form and patterns of linguistic interaction. All these can be branded as “essentialist,” hence wrongheaded and politically mischievous. Paradoxically, assertions about universal human traits and tendencies are usually targeted just as vehemently as assertions about differences: There are no differences between groups, seems to be the message, but there is no sameness among them either.

• Aceh: Three Lashes for Selling Cooked Rice During Ramadan
  6 October 2010, by siawi2
  Source: Jakarta Globe, October 2, 2010.
  http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/three-lashes-for-selling-cooked-rice-during-ramadan-in-aceh/399256
  by Nurdin Hasan
  Jantho, Aceh.
  With heads bowed, two young women walked toward a wooden stage outside  (...)

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