Insurance Clerk Shows Islamophobia – Is Overruled… sorta

It was in my newspaper the other day – I found the story in English for your edification: This story out of Germany which had me boggled. I was reading it with incredulity. Not at the racism and islamophobia – I know those things exist, and that people are actually like that. But I was [...]

I get comments…

TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of rape, violence, death, abuse, hatred and invocation of “my cause is more worthy than your cause”. If you’re not up for an infuriating comment, and an infuriated response-post. Please save your spoons for something more productive and sensible. This one has been bugging me for weeks, and I needed to get [...]

No one would ever…

In a discussion elsewhere the case of the Mohammad cartoons came up. I’m not going to go into the issue of whether it was right or wrong of the newspaper to publish them. I’m too tired, busy and distracted to revisit that one right now. However, in that discussion elsewhere, it was stated that an [...]

We don’t dislike you, we just don’t like you.

Islamophobia is becoming more and more accepted and ingrained into life here in Europe. In Denmark we have the usual right wingers crying wolf every time someone with slightly darker than standard Nordic skin does something they disapprove of. In Switzerland they took it to a new level. They actually voted and the general Swiss [...]

Freedom of Religion?

There I was in the middle of writing and editing another post (will appear at some point), when news out of Germany reached my ears. And I was appalled. Horrified even. High court deems Berlin shop hours unconstitutional

Freedom of Speech no longer

In Ireland legislation to ban blasphemy has been passed. This is a huge step backwards for the Catholic nation in the Atlantic. The law not only makes blasphemy illegal and punishable by a considerable fine, it also grants the police the right to enter and ransack premises, where blasphemous material is suspected to be kept, [...]

Islamophobia in the name of Freedom

There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish): I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned. Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. [...]

Thou shalt not kill…

via Morrigan Reborn God Clarifies Go read. It’s awesome.

Dog Saves Baby

BBC writes: An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies. The country’s media are calling him “the miracle baby”. He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires. She is [...]

Abby and heteronormativity

As we’ve seen before with the Dear Abby column, sometimes she gives fine advice, and sometimes she assumes so many things about people that can’t sensibly be assumed. Take this latest entry: DEAR ABBY: I am 14 years old and the daughter of a successful businessman. Daddy recently announced that we have been invited to [...]