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Baroness Warsi is Britain’s first Muslim woman to have a seat in the House of Lords and as such has a key role in the fight against discrimination of women and Muslims. This week, she’s been in the headlines regarding Britain’s changing relationship with Islam and the growing acceptance of Islamophobia as an acceptable form [...]
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The new president of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, has called homosexuality ‘unacceptable’. When asked about his views on the UN resolution decriminalising homosexuality, he replied: That matter is very sensitive, very touchy. As a Muslim, I am not in favour of it . . . it is not accepted by the [...]
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Taking a lead in the creation of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a bloc in the European Parliament, have the Tory party shown their true colours? If so, the colours are back to their traditional blue and the rainbow flag is nowhere to be seen. The bloc is designed to give conservative and right [...]
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When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]
One thing which I am very proud of is how so many of Western Europe’s states maintain a strict division between church and state. Even Italy, the country with the heart of Catholicism at its core, is taking great steps to make laws which match the modern world. So, I’m afraid that I got very, [...]
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I’ve avoided saying something about the pope’s statement on gender and the importance of saving humankind from of it largely since the speech is so vague that there are a thousand ways to interpret it. I honestly don’t know what the pope meant to say. I have my fears about what he meant, though, and [...]