Category: Uncommon Ground
Pseudo-progressives oppose depicting the harsh reality of young girls caught between the misogynies of two worlds, the Islamic and the Western.
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Andreia Nobre desribes how she was attacked in the street for discussing feminist issues. "Punch a TERF" is not a cute slogan, it is inciting violence.
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Despite living in one of the most secular countries worldwide, ex-Muslim secularists in France still face hate speech, death threats, and an idle government. Waleed Al-Husseini founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of France. He escaped the Palestinian Authority after torture and imprisonment in Palestine, fleeing to Jordan and then France. He is an ex-Muslim and […]
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In Ventimiglia, migrants live in squalid conditions, stuck in limbo, as they try to cross the border from Italy to France.
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A terrorist attack on the French Embassy in Burkina Faso on Friday, March 3, believed to be targeting the anti-terror force G5-Sahel has killed dozens. A jihadist terror attack on the French Embassy in Burkina Faso claimed dozens of lives on Friday, March 3. There were two attacks, with one on the French Embassy in […]
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‘Very Important Pedocriminal’ was the slogan painted on one protester’s back at the museum of cinema, Cinémathèque Française, as the venue attempted to host a retrospective of Roman Polanski’s cinema history. The 84-year-old French-Polish director’s films include Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist and The Ghost Writer. Polanski had been invited to present his latest film ‘D’après […]
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Founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of France, Waleed Al-Husseini, on the oppressed and terrible condition of ex-Muslims in France and in Muslim countries.
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Progressives everywhere can take heart from Emmanuel Macron's victory in France, but what relevance does it hold for progressives here in Britain?
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“More people worship the rising sun than the setting sun,” a young and ambitious Roman general is said to have quipped to the ageing dictator Sulla. For many in France’s Front National, the twenty-seven year old Marion Maréchal-Le Pen was the rising sun they saw as the future of their movement. But two days ago […]
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Waleed Al-Husseini founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of France. He escaped the Palestinian Authority after torture and imprisonment in Palestine to Jordan and then France. He is an ex-Muslim and atheist. Here is his story.
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