Ayaan Hirsi Ali - War on Terror, or War on Islam?
Rated • 0 reviews • terrorism, video • youtube.com
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2blowhards.com: The End of Flashman
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"In the movieworld, it's pretty unremarkable for people to say that Cary Grant, a light comedian, was one of the great movie actors, if not one of the great artists, of the 20th century. (Incidentally, I'm OK with that judgment!) But when it comes to books, entertainers even of the most extraordinary quality get almost no respect, at least of the heavyweight kind."
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Quote of the Day - OregonLive.com: Religion
Rated • 1 review • history, witches • oregonlive.com
"There is no evidence that the majority of those accused were healers and midwives; in England and also in some parts of the Continent, midwives were more likely to be found helping witch-hunters. Most women used herbal medicines as part of their household skills, some of which were quasi-magical, without arousing any anxiety. There is little evidence that convicted witches were invariably unmarried or sexually 'liberated' or lesbian; many (though not most) of those accused were married women with young families. Men were not responsible for all accusations: many, perhaps even most, witches were accused by women, and most cases depend at least partly on the evidence given by women witnesses. Persecution was as severe in Protestant as in Catholic areas. The Inquisition, except in a few areas where the local inquisitor was especially zealous, was more lenient about witchcraft cases than the secular courts; in Spain, for example, where the Inquisition was very strong, there were few deaths. Many inquisitors and secular courts disdained the Malleus Malificarum, still the main source for the view that witch-hunting was women-hunting; still others thought it ridiculously paranoid about male sexuality. In some countries, torture was not used at all, and in England, witches were hanged rather than burned."
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