Monthly Archives: January 2016

Law chiefs give Crown Court judge permission to rule at SHARIA court set up by hardline cleric who led demonstration against Charlie Hebdo

Daily Mail: Judge Shamim Qureshi is a highly respected jurist at Bristol Crown Court He is also the leading legal figure at the Sharia Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Judicial authorities granted Judge Qureshi permission to sit on the MAT The MAT … Continue reading

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What All The Harassment Stories In Astronomy Really Mean

Professor Ethan Siegel writes: What you’re seeing isn’t a series of scandals indicative of a problem in astronomy; you’re seeing the astronomy community standing up, for the first time, with a commitment to righting one of the most longstanding wrongs … Continue reading

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Imprisoned For Speech

It’s shocking that this man has been years in prison simply for matters of speech. From Wikipedia: Simon Guy Sheppard[1] (born 1957) is a British political activist from Hull, England, who runs a number of websites promoting his far right, … Continue reading

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The Reverend Peter Ball Held On Child Abuse Charges

Comment: “Reverend Peter Ball (really) a very senior English Anglican cleric was recently imprisoned, at an advanced age, for various sexual molestations of young male acolytes who had sought his spiritual guidance. The Rev. Ball, was particular noted for his … Continue reading

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The Advantage Of A Written First-Amendment

Comments to Steve Sailer: * Proto-Victorianism starts with John Wesley’s Methodist revival. Methodists were encouraged to stop drinking and whoring, and lead productive, Ned Flanders-ish lives. Young Methodists were often thoroughly embarrassed by their foul-mouthed, hard-drinking grandparents of the Ben … Continue reading

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