Harry's Place

The Belfast Telegraph reports that victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests are very unhappy about new guidelines drawn up by the Vatican to deal with priests who abuse children.
Victims of paedophile priests reacted with fury yesterday after new guidelines from the Vatican insisted bishops, rather than police, should deal with [...]

This is a cross post by Dave Rich of The CST
Iran’s English-language station Press TV was censured by Ofcom this week for airing an interview with a jailed Iranian journalist which was obtained by force during his imprisonment. This is not the first time that Ofcom have ruled against Press TV, and the Iranian channel seems to [...]

Dan Littauer, Executive Editor of Gay Middle East interviews Frances Guy, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic, about LGBT rights in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East.  This interview follows her seminal statements in the UK FCO blogs and her meeting with head of Helem in Beirut in honour of the International Day Against [...]

Junaid Ahmed has served as a “youth co-ordinator” of the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), the East London-based Islamist group. He is also a trustee of the Islamic Forum Trust, a registered charity of the IFE.
Have a look at him in the video below in a speech titled “Heroes of Palestine”. He means [...]

Guest post by DaveM
First the US and EU called on Bashar al-Assad to reform, and he responded with tanks.
Now even his allies are joining in the chorus calling for reforms, without actually specifying what that would involve.
They’re not calling for a non-existent Nu-Bathist Liberal Syria simply because it seems like a good idea; they’re appealing [...]

The Labour Party has not only lost most of its individual donors since Ed Miliband became leader it is £10m in debt and  almost 90% of its funding comes from trade unions, according to figures released by the Electoral Commission. It’s a worrying state of affairs.
The high percentage of trade union cash is a [...]

From the annals of news unlikely to be reported on anti-Zionist “leftwing” websites, The Washington Post reports:
Arthur Goldreich, 82, who helped the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela hide on a farm by posing as his employer, died May 24 in Tel Aviv. No cause of death was reported.
In his autobiography, Mandela describes the South African-born Mr. [...]

This is a cross-post from Just Journalism.
Yesterday The Guardian’s Datablog published the results of the Global Peace Index, which ranks the ‘calm’ and ‘peacefulness’ of 153 countries across the world. The index takes into account a broad array of factors, including crime rates, internal and external relations and conflicts, arms sales, military size, democratic indices and social [...]

Gaddafi should be worried about what he might tell.

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
Anti-circumcision activists, also known as ‘intactivists’, are celebrating on the west coast. In November, San Francisco residents will consider a proposal to ban the circumcision of male children. If the measure passes, circumcision will be banned among males under the age of 18, and will be punishable by a $1,000 [...]