PC461 July 2009 Opinions
- Asked for trouble and got it

Sayed Pervez Kambakhsh jailed for stirring up stuff by handing out texts saying that the religious were abusing Ilsam in exploiting women's rights

- He was sentenced to death for downloading and distributing a report criticising the treatment of women under Islamic Law. A religious court found him guilty of blasphemy. He was tried behind closed doors and without legal representation in Mazar-e-Sharif.

- but really I have little sympathy for him; he must have been mad to expect respect for human rights in Afghanistan. The response of the authorities is immoral, but predictable

.. Trollope quote - "tread on it and bruise it"

- "With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it"

- How strange - he say to get the best from a woman do something bad then ask for for forgiveness ..maybe a huge element of truth

Secret Internet Censorship
- I noticed that in India many of the the Skeptical or humanist websites, either wouldn't load at all, or were very slow to load ..this seemsed very suspicious to me as outside the country they work OK, but viewers inside thhe country would often think ah this site doesn't work any more

- Then in the Ukraine I notice the website of someone who blogs on Russian politics/business would never load, but when you use a proxy server it immediately appears. Then today I notice that an Indian skeptic site has a google warnng Malware detected on this site so it won't load. Yes of course one of the best ways of blocking a site would be to hack it, and include 20 characters which Google detects as a malaware warning "Reported as an attack site"..and whmph the page is blocked legitamtely.

Indian Humanist Articles
- I just read an online magazine I had forgotten I'd downloaded ... THOUGHT&ACTION Journal From www.antisuperstition.org ...pretty good - "Reported as an attack site"
... Especially Meera Nanda's Article about car pujas and promotion of religious tourism leading to stampedes

check - periyar.org.in/TheModernRationalist "Reported as an attack site"
nirmukta.com seems working

- check Ms. Uma Bharti, is she the "untouchable" dalit politician who is building the $250m temple ? I heard that on the radio, but cant find confirmation yet it will surprise most foreigners who think that India is poor that temples like Tirupati receive $350m evry year and in fact it just received a $250 golden crown from a stell millionaire

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