Author: Shahid Bolsen

France just banned “catcalling” among other offences in a new law spurred by a video-taped incident in which a Frenchman allegedly verbally accosted a young woman in the street, and when she told him to stop, he slapped her….hard. OK, here’s the thing. Laws already exist to prosecute him for slapping her. Or anyway, I…

There is no real practical difference between Islamists and secularists; just the different belief and values systems each uses to guide them in crafting man-made laws. The Islamists talk about #Shariah, but their entire governmental model, and almost any laws they would enact spring from human minds; let’s be honest. The differing belief systems matter,…