She brushed aside honour killings with “when you look at countries like Australia and the US, the top killer of women is domestic violence. But we choose to refer to it as domestic violence..."
Topic: Human Rights
Opposing University Censorship in The Australian
We are on page 7 of today’s Australian in an advertisement protesting the UWA’s attempted censorship of Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg. We’re reproduced the ad below for those who don’t buy a hard copy Australian.
No place for medieval practice in our society
Some conservative Muslims treat women as chattels.
Some conservative Muslims struggle in a liberal society and sometimes, especially among young men, contempt for the host society bubbles to the surface.
So why do liberals cry for religious freedom when that freedom leads to the treatment of women as second-class citizens and emboldens young men? I, for one, will not defend another’s right to be illiberal.
