February 2011
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January 2011
“Organised religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.” — Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything)
snuffboy:
WikiLeaks exposes US complicity in murder,... →
janedoe225:
Perhaps the most damning cable is from Ambassador Margaret Scobey, dated January 15, 2009. The letter calls police brutality “routine and pervasive” and states that “police using force to extract confessions from criminals [is] a daily event.” Embassy informants “estimate there are literally hundreds of torture incidents every day in Cairo police stations alone.” The rampant abuse...
