by Heather Hastie | Dec 31, 2017 | Human Rights, Middle East, Religion, Tweets, Women
Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True’ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 8, 2017 | International Politics, Middle East, Religion, Tweets
Tweets are about the least important thing on my mind at the moment. On Wednesday morning I had a bad fall. Walking is never that easy for me, but now every step is agony. Still, that’s actually not the worst of my problems. 3½ hours later my landlord told me...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 24, 2017 | Great Britain & Europe, International Politics, Middle East, Russia, US Politics, USA
The official name of the Iran Nuclear agreement is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. It was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran on one side and France, Great Britain, China, Germany, Russia, and the US on the other. The...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 4, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, Women
Note to Readers: There are images of FGM and sexually explicit statements in this post. Yes, you read that right – an Egyptian imam says FGM (female genital mutilation), which he calls female circumcision, has economic benefits. What’s more, he has a doozy...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 30, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, Women
This video about requiring women to wear the hijab is from a tweet by Ali A Rizvi with the comment “How times have changed.” It’s from 1958 and has been around for a while, but I think it deserves as much attention as possible. It’s a portion...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 21, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, Women
Many people in this world still have extremely backward attitudes relating to women, and rape is a topic on which they expose themselves. For most of them it’s a product of their upbringing. They’ve often never had exposure to different opinions. But,...
