Month: February 2014

A national shame

Source: ET Police said the girl was tied to a tree at her home in Chak 151/10-R in Jahanian and set on fire. PHOTO: FILE Honour killing is everything but that. It has its roots in a perversion of the moral code where right and wrong are reversed, and mindsets […]

Ukraine’s Leader Flees!

Source: NY Times: Protesters stood guard near the presidential administration building in Kiev on Saturday. Darko Bandic/Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — An opposition unit took control of the presidential palace outside Kiev on Saturday, as leaders in Parliament said Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, had fled the capital a day […]

The ‘Islam is different’ argument

Washington Post: by Eugene Volokh — I have argued that many (though not all) of the things that are condemned as intrusions of Islamic law into American law are actually the applications of traditional American legal principles. Those who believe in equal treatment without regard to religion, I have argued, […]