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Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
The mantra implies that if FGM did have health benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad after all.
One of the more perplexing idiosyncrasies of American political discussion is the tendency to conflate liberal and radical leftists.
We should be promoting a response that saves lives, defends human freedom, acknowledges our responsibilities, and honours our liberal history.
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important.
Let’s face it: there is no logical, consistent way to approach renaming of buildings — especially when the protestors, themselves, are opposed to logical discourse.
The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.”
Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
The problem isn’t that that is completely unwarranted, it might be, it might not be. The problem is that shielding us from the truth is utterly counter-productive.
This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.
The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging.