Pakistan erased Int. NYT cover story

Pakistan erased an entire International New York Times cover story By Chris Welch on March 22, 2014 12:53 pm Email 191Comments Don’t miss stories Follow The Verge 71 inShare Today’s edition of The International New York Times was stripped of its cover story in Pakistan. Instead of seeing a lengthy report on […]

Religious Police Go Far Beyond Saudi Arabia, Found In Nearly One-In-Ten Countries

Huff Post —  While Saudi Arabia is well-known for its “religious police” that enforce government-approved religious moral codes, from gender-segregation and the ban of alcohol to rules against women driving, a Pew Research Center analysishas found that similar religious police exist in nearly one-in-ten countries. Pew’s findings on religious police, part […]

Qutb, Maududi and the military

ET: If you can’t win the game, change the rules. This has been the cornerstone of the political ideology of religious groups from Egypt to Pakistan. It all started from Syed Qutb in Egypt and his mentor Maulana Maududi in Pakistan. Qutb, upon his return from the United States, became increasingly disturbed […]

The Politics of Witchcraft Studies

Suppressed Histories: by Max Dashu I would like to offer an alternative to the locked-in polarity between some of the more uninformed Wiccan takes on history and the denial by many academic historians that repression of social and cultural groups played any role in the witch hunts. Of course, the […]