About 20 years ago I lived in the Netherlands. Amsterdam to be precise. I don’t know if it is still the same but finding decent affordable accommodation in Amsterdam is an onerous task – especially when you are on a budget, as I was. After some difficulty, I did find a fairly decent flat, but I left it, in the middle of the night, with my rucksack and all my possessions, because my landlord did not understand, nor did he want to accept, that I wasn’t interested in a sexual relationship with him. Fast forward eight months or so, and I am living in a new flat with a female friend of mine. Late one night, while my friend and I were sitting talking in her room, someone let himself in. He immediately decided to take his trousers off and walk in to the bedroom with a stupid “entitled” grin on his face. We left the flat, there and then, with our rucksacks and all our possessions. So, twice within a year I had to leave the place I lived because of nasty little men who thought they had every right to treat women as if we owe them sex. In both
Author: Anne-Marie Waters
Je Ne Suis Pas Secular: How Britain’s National Secular Society Is Now Just Another Pro-Immigration, Left-Wing Pressure Group
When I joined the National Secular Society (NSS), and was elected to serve on its governing council, I did so because I believed it was secular organisation. I believed its own claim that it was “Britain’s only national organisation working exclusively towards a secular society”. I assumed that its remit was to oppose the political influence of religion, and to maintain the principles of freedom of belief and freedom of speech that are inseparable from a truly secular philosophy. A secular society is one where religion can be mocked, ridiculed, and heavily criticised without any retribution from the religion itself (other than the right of its followers to respond to criticism), or from the state. It is certainly a fundamental facet of secularism that religious violence can and must be challenged, as well as any threat of religious violence. The National Secular Society has however shown that the issues central
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