Christians continue to be slaughtered in the Middle East. But as reports of genocidal atrocities mount up, our governments have found a new reason to sit on their hands. Christians, the theory goes, don’t have it as bad as the Yazidis. As ‘people of the book’, Christians enjoy privileged status. Rather than suffering the full extent of Islamic State’s depravities, they can pay a tax (Jizya) in return for protection. It sounds credible and contains just enough theology to bamboozle the secular population of the international community.
In the News
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September 5th, 2016
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September 5th, 2016
The Scottish Government is facing an open rebellion from families against its controversial named person scheme.
As MSPs return to work today, an exclusive poll for the Press and Journal shows that more than two thirds of people would not cooperate with their state guardian.
More than 70% also said they were not in favour of the scheme, which was knocked back by the UK’s highest court in July, with three judges branding aspects of it “unlawful”.
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September 5th, 2016
ISIS has outlawed the burka at their security centres in a northern Iraqi city, despite previously brutally enforcing a law requiring them to be worn.
The terror group have banned women entering the buildings in Mosul while wearing the full-face covering after a number of commanders were killed by veiled women.
Previously women in Syria and Iraq have been beaten or even killed by ISIS's 'morality police' for not wearing a veil to conceal their body and eyes.
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September 5th, 2016
A counsellor at the Dublin crisis pregnancy clinic exposed in an undercover Times investigation claimed that abortion could make a woman suicidal, frigid and obsessed with babies. She also said that a first-trimester foetus was more sensitive to pain than an adult.
An undercover reporter secretly filmed the exchange at the Women’s Centre in Dublin which has links to a Catholic anti-abortion group.
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September 5th, 2016
We have high expectations of our schools in Britain. We expect them to take our very young children, care for them, nurture them and turn them into numerate, articulate young people. We want schools to test our offspring, give them qualifications and make them ready for the workplace.
The other thing we expect is that they keep our children safe. So for many parents, the figures showing that a rape is reported every day of term in a UK school, and that girls are experiencing shockingly high levels of sexual harassment and abuse, are incredibly worrying. It’s also surprising that many young people are still leaving school having never been taught about sex and relationships, as demonstrated by the #SREnow hashtag on Twitter - a catalogue of stories about woeful education and appalling harassment.
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September 5th, 2016
A Dublin-based pregnancy counselling centre has been secretly recorded advising that abortions cause breast cancer and can turn women into child abusers.
A counsellor at the clinic, which is unregulated under Irish law, was filmed giving advice to an undercover Times reporter that was described as dangerous, outrageous and inaccurate by the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
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September 5th, 2016
There has been only one successful prosecution of forced marriage since it was criminalised two years ago, despite Theresa May’s pledge that new legislation would help to stamp out the “terrible practice”.
Figures also show that charges, prosecutions and convictions related to “honour”-based violence have fallen by up to 30 per cent in the past 12 months, causing concern at the Crown Prosecution Service.
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September 4th, 2016
I warned Malcolm Turnbull and others of the Left that saying yes to same-sex marriage would make it hard to say no to polygamy. How could we say no to any three adults marrying once we've agreed to any two? A new dating site for Muslim polygamists suggests that argument is about to start.
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September 4th, 2016
The former Bishop of Durham, the Right Reverend Dr David Jenkins, has died aged 91, his family has said.
Dr Jenkins died in Barnard Castle, County Durham, on Sunday morning. He had been living with Alzheimer's disease for many years.
The cleric and theologian was Bishop of Durham from 1984 until 1994.
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September 4th, 2016
British courts should be able to issue Islamic divorces via a specialised unit set up to protect the rights of Muslim women, a leading expert in sharia law will advise a House of Commons inquiry.
In recommendations to the home affairs select committee, Elham Manea, associate professor in Middle East studies at Zurich University, will also argue for mandatory civil marriages alongside religious ceremonies, and say imams who violate the rules should be given harsh sanctions.