Month: October 2014

About the Open University

About the OU The Open University’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. Read About the OU, and visit the OU in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotlandand Wales. Research at the OU The OU does world-leading innovative research and development which influences policy and enriches lives. Find out how research […]

Bill Maher’s horrible excuse: Why his defense of Islamophobia just doesn’t make any sense

For all his odes to liberal ideals, Maher’s latest effort to demonize Muslims reveals a disturbing, illiberal truth by Myriam Francois-Cerrah Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Her words seem […]

We’re Doing Bigotry Wrong

Fake apologies ask us to pretend that prejudices are shed as easily as coats Recently, Charlotte Lucas – co-founder of Lucas Oil, the corporate namesake of the Indianapolis Colts’ football stadium — took to her Facebook account to comment on unchecked minority rule in America. “I’m sick and tired of minorities […]

Pakistan’s Original Sin

FP Asia:  The fields of Hampshire are usually associated with blazing crops of rapeseed and fragrant lavender. But on the final weekend of August, over 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world converged on Oakland Farm in East Worldham to attend Jalsa Salana, the biggest Islamic convention in the […]