Posted on July 17, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
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While for some Americans religious beliefs remain an obstacle to their support of marriage rights for gays and lesbians, many of those same Americans have a tough time reconciling their religious conviction and compassion with the idea that a child may remain homeless in spite of the fact that a loving home exists in which [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions. Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist
An honor killing is a murder, carried out by a family to punish a female family member who has supposedly brought dishonor on the family. The acts which are the cause of [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Posted on July 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Posted on July 9, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The term Sharia literally means “path” or “way” (”way to the water source”). So, originally, it wasn’t a legal code or a set or rules as it is now. With the passing of time, the word has come to mean the body of legal rules which were produced through a very long process of scholarly [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
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Religious liberty or the freedom of religion and belief is a human right. It is the right to be protected against coercion in matters of religion, to be free to practice and profess a religion of your choice, in private as well as in public, to change your religion, or to practice no religion at [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(photo showing the excavation of mass graves in Srebrenica)
Genocide is the deliberate, systematic and violent destruction of a group (an ethnic, racial, religious, national or political group). This destruction can take many forms:
the outright murder of (the majority of) the members of the group
inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction
measures intended to prevent [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
I’ve written before on discrimination, especially gender discrimination (also here) and discrimination based on sexual orientation. This post tackles the subject more generally.
Discrimination, in its non-political and non-legal sense, simply means the recognition of differences. In the political and legal sense, it means unjustifiable differences in treatment between groups of people, most often the unjustifiable [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
“False doctrine should be checked on its first appearance; the civil power should unite with the church in punishing those who dared to attack the established religion, and such only were punished by the Inquisition.” Samuel Johnson, aka Dr Johnson.
“Religiously wrong, a motive of legislation which can never be too earnestly protested against. Deorum injuriae [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
