Religious privilege trumps equality yet again

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

As reported in today’s The Telegraph, a sikh teenager who was excluded from school after refusing to take off a religious bangle has won her discrimination case at the High Court.
Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, was reprimanded for breaking the “no jewellery” rule at Aberdare Girls’ School in South Wales last year.
In court, she said wearing the [...]

The best person for the job

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

One must have been living under a rock for the last few years if you’re not aware of the increasing influx of pervasive religious attitudes into daily life. I’m not talking about living in a theocracy here - I live in the UK. I’m talking about in the ’secular’ West, where increasing scientific [...]

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