If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.
It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.
Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.
I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.