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In a world where religious texts are considered to be beyond any and all criticism and are literally true then absurd directives are often picked up and promoted as a jolly good idea. Within the Quran we have this ayat … Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath […]

How should you beat your wife?

This entry was posted in islam religion and tagged domestic violence violence wife beating on May 29, 2016 by Dave

When faced with the reality of their abhorrent behaviour, especially when they appear to relish and delight in proudly promoting it, a rather natural thought is that they are simply crazy, or to be a tad more clinical, they are a gang of psychopaths. A psychopath is an individual who acts […]

Is ISIS simply a group of Psychopaths?

This entry was posted in islam People psychology religion Uncategorized and tagged belief ISIS psychology violence on November 23, 2015 by Dave

Publishers, whose very life blood is printing books, have been burning books in Bangladesh as a very public protest against the governments refusal to take any decisive action in response to the growing campaign of orchestrated murder that is being directed against writers. The Guardian Reports … Demonstrations have continued over fatal […]

Bangladesh publishers burn books in protest at killing of secularists

This entry was posted in Humanism islam People religion and tagged Bangladesh Bloggers Faisal Arefin Deepan Murder violence on November 4, 2015 by Dave

A common foundational idea of religious belief is the classic sales pitch – “here is a hideous problem within human nature, but I have a product that will fix it for you”, but if the problem itself is fictitious, then the proposed “solution” is attempting to fix a problem you do not […]

Is sin real – Are we really just a few heartbeats away from depravity and ...

This entry was posted in People psychology religion society and tagged human nature sin Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature violence on September 13, 2015 by Dave

Adam Walker, Spokesperson of the London based Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, has written an article in the Independent entitled “Are peaceful Muslims in denial about their religion?“, and there he makes a case for the Quran being fundamentally a non-violent text. Such a stance is of course to be applauded … oh but […]

Responding to Islamic Violence – Which Interpretation of the Quran is the right one?

This entry was posted in islam religion and tagged Adam Walker interpretation quran violence on March 7, 2015 by Dave

If you dig into the statistics concerning Islamic terrorism then what you find are some surprising facts. First, let’s start with the hopefully obvious observation. Almost every single day news reaches us of yet another barbaric atrocity that has been inspired and motivated by Islam. What should of course be […]

Islamic Terrorism – The Statistics and how we can tackle it

This entry was posted in islam psychology religion and tagged violence on March 2, 2015 by Dave