Tag: Slavery
Texas’s war on history
By Katherine Stewart May 19, 2012.
Print: The Guardian
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schools
The Women of Islam
Lisa Beyer December 1, 2009.
Print: Time
The way Islam has been practiced in most Muslim societies for centuries has left millions of Muslim women with battered bodies, minds and souls.
Jaycee Lee Dugard: Phillip Garrido, the religious fanatic with a dark secret neighbours never guesse
John Bingham August 28, 2009.
Print: Telegraph.co.uk
Phillip Garrido’s neighbours and clients knew him as a religious zealot who made bizarre claims about being able to to control sound with his mind but no one suspected him of one California’s oldest unsolved crimes.
The Varieties of Biblical Marriage
by Vorjack May 3, 2009.
Print: Unreasonable Faith
The concept of “biblical marriage” faces scrutiny.
Frankie Martin: America’s Islamic Slave Roots
Frankie Martin January 26, 2009.
Huffington Post
The case of Sapelo illustrates some of the deep links between Islam and America going back to the founding of the country itself.
On the evolution of Darwin
Philip Ball January 24, 2009.
The Guardian, UK
Among a glut of new works on the great naturalist, Philip Ball finds the claim that a hatred of slavery motivated his studies
