Daily Archives: November 26, 2010

Barbados Muslim Girls School, 14 year old student: “Nothing wrong with beheading, chopping off your hands, severe beatings”

What values are taught at Al-Falah Muslim School? “Hijab is compulsory… hide woman’s beauty as protection from rape.” “Beheading, chopping off your hands, severe beatings are Islamic rules, nothing wrong in it.” When a dozen or so girls from the … Continue reading

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Filed under Barbados, Culture & Race Issues, Education, Human Rights, Religion

Japanese company shows off Plastic to Oil machine

“This plastic is not garbage. It is oil, gasoline, kerosene.” You must watch this video of a small machine – about the size of a large coffee maker – that converts plastic trash into usable oil. Akinori Ito’s company ‘Blest’ … Continue reading

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Filed under Barbados, Energy, Environment, Science, Technology

Forbes picks up Adrian Loveridge article at BFP

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: we have no idea why articles from Barbados Free Press are being regularly picked up and republished or linked to by major news outlets like CNN, Sky News, USA Today, The … Continue reading

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