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 | Sep 27, 2017 | Human Rights, Tweets, Women
As you can see, there’s a new name in the title: Homily. I’m not sure how that’s going to work – I’m just trying it on for size at this stage. The content of the post won’t change. There’ll still be plenty of tweets on...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 9, 2017 | Religion, Women
Short answer: No, Islam is not a feminist religion. There are more and more women who are trying to convince us Islam is feminist. Their logic seems to be they’re feminist, they’re Muslim, therefore Islam is a feminist religion. But as we all know,...
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 | Aug 7, 2016 | Religion, Terrorism
I saw this Letter to the Editor in George Takei’s Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not sure which newspaper it’s from, but it’s probably an Australian one because the writer is from Kalangadoo, which is a tiny settlement in South Australia....