Pakistan is becoming more and more dangerous both for Muslims and non-Muslims. The most important for a person is survival, why to live in a place where there is a threat to your survival. If the blasphemy law is not reviewed by the state it will give birth to severe problems. The people of Pakistan are adopting extremist mindset, if ...

Definition – ‘the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).’ (Oxford Dictionary) As is understood from the definition above, gender is not a biological absolute. The human body has huge variety and specifically gender identity, a very wide range. When a child is conceived there is an almost ...

‘Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it’ (Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: Vintage 1991) The quote highlights the dilemma faced by women everywhere, every day. Men decide how women should dress, what they should wear, how they should behave, where they should go, what work she should do, how much ...

An irrational belief and adherence to a religion, religious text, more commonly termed ‘fundamental’, leads to extreme behaviour, often with dire consequences. Many religions develop fundamentalists, however, the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exhibit some of the worst traits of unquestioning faith in the world at present. It is important that people recognise these traits and try to combat ...

Empathy is the ability to feel another’s suffering or pleasure. It’s a real breakthrough in the evolution of sentient animals like ourselves and it has also been demonstrated by other animals, whales, dolphins, elephants, apes and more. It means we refuse to condone torture or inequality and we can vicariously enjoy each other’s happiness. It’s the one most salient emotion ...

Human rights are relatively new, conceived in the European ‘Enlightenment’ of great thinkers and humanitarians, developing through the centuries and becoming ratified through the adoption of the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris 1948. Human Rights are commonly understood to be inalienable, fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled, simply because ...

Since pre-history there has been a proliferation of gods and hence a need to name them. When Judaism abandoned the many in favour of the one (about 4,000 years ago), this ‘one’ god needed no name and thus it was deemed blasphemous to pronounce that name – YHVH or Yahweh or Jehovah. Since ancient/classic Hebrew has no vowel marks nikkud ...

If religious texts were completely free from the vagaries of interpretative meaning there would have been no wars, genocides, segregations or hate based on religious faith, for one simple reason…there would be no grounds for believers to argue about what ‘god’ wants or how they should live. Make no mistake, there is no one true text, no definitive right interpretation ...

Think of morality as a set of rules. These rules may be set by the government and manifested in laws or they may be determined by societal agreement in traditions. They are rules to live by, rules you believe in, rules allowing and enabling great gatherings of human beings to live together in harmony. Ethics are the originators of those ...