Author: ZilSu

Somaliland – An African and Muslim success story

25 June 2007 Somaliland is an African and Muslim nation that is embracing peace, democracy, human rights and economic development. Peter Tatchell interviews Dr Mohamed-Aar A Mohamed of the Somaliland Research Society UK and Lulu Farah of the Somaliland Forum UK. In contrast to the war, chaos and human rights abuses in Somalia, the independent […]

The global resurgence of religious intolerance

16 June 2007 From Washington to Baghdad and beyond, religious intolerance is making a comeback; threatening democracy and human rights. Peter Tatchell interviews feminist commentator, writer and secularist, Joan Smith. Two centuries after the Enlightenment, religious ignorance, superstition, sectarianism and prejudice are on the rise again. Reason, science, liberalism, democracy, secularism and humanitarian values are […]

Monarchy v Democracy – time for an elected Head of State?

14 June 2007 Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay sets out the case for an elected head of state Hitler may have lost the war, but a monarch of German descent sits on the throne of Britain. Queen Elizabeth II is a descendant of the German Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The real issue is, of course, not […]