Category Archives: Hindism
US: The scariest thing in the world…
This post is extensively linked. It’s tragic that there are so many examples of misogyny, but it’s great to see them all exposed in one place. Girls, these things happen because there are men with power who fear you and … Continue reading
Filed under Stupidity, Human rights abuse, Women, Catholicism, Sexuality, Abortion, Anglican/Episcopalianism, Islamicism, Institutionalised discrimination and bigotry, Fundamentalist Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hindism, Buddhism, Protestant sects, Orthodox Churches, Manufactured outrage, Mormonism, Science
Global: What people believe in depends on where they’re born…
… unless they use, you know, logic and stuff. Just saying. H/T to Jerry Coyne for the reference. Anders Jacobsens blog
Nepal: ‘Reassuring’ to watch corpses burn
SMH …Every day, scores of bamboo or metal gurneys carrying corpses are brought to the waterside by grieving relatives…. It was confronting to see a human foot emerging from a pyre as a body became engulfed by flame, but even … Continue reading
Filed under Euthanasia, Hindism, Mystical woo, Non-believers, Science, Stupidity
UK: Forced marriage, age five
BBC News A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK’s youngest victim of forced marriage. She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government’s Forced Marriage Unit in the last year. The figures have emerged … Continue reading
India: Woman killed for refusing to withdraw rape charge
Indian Express A month-and-a-half after a schoolgirl was reportedly raped in Betul, her mother was allegedly shot dead by the accused and his friends on Friday night. No arrests have been made so far. Imarti Uike, a 45-year-old tribal woman, … Continue reading
Pakistan: ‘Brand loyalty’ gets a whole new meaning
SMH Hopes for the rapid resolution of a controversy involving the conversion of a Hindu woman to Islam have been dashed after the Pakistan Supreme Court deferred the matter for at least three more weeks. The court ruled that Rinkel … Continue reading
India: Do as I say, not as I do..
…and what I do is watch porn in parliament. Slate Indian newspapers and television stations are having a field day covering what they have dubbed “Porngate,” the scandalous news that three ministers from the Indian state of Karnataka were caught … Continue reading
India: Murderers sentenced for ‘honour killings’ from 1991
BBC News A judge in India has sentenced eight men to death and 20 others to life imprisonment for three so-called honour killings that took place in 1991. The men were found guilty of murdering a Dalit boy and a … Continue reading
Australia: Tamil detainee suicides when refused permission to attend religious festival
SMH Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has denied that a Sri Lankan man who died in an apparent suicide attempt at Sydney’s Villawood Detention Centre overnight had been cleared of being a security threat. Mr Bowen said the man was still … Continue reading
Filed under Celebrations, Hindism, Human rights abuse, Protestors, Self-abuse
India: High Court bomb kills nine
SMH A bomb outside New Delhi’s High Court killed at least nine people and injured 45. Ambulances evacuated wounded to nearby hospitals and the blast site was sealed off by police. No word yet on the motivation: but does anybody … Continue reading
