The original charge was “enmity to God” but now they claim to have found 30 grams of “drugs.”
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Pakistan newspapers on the murder of Salman Taseer
The English-language papers condemn it; the Urdu papers say he was “controversial.”
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A philosopher of religion gives it up
“If you cannot take something seriously, you should not try to devote serious academic attention to it.”
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Another religious law punishes women
Aharon Friedman, an Orthodox Jew, refuses to give his wife a get. Only a husband can “give” a get.
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Declan Walsh on the murder of Salman Taseer
As he was led away Qadri told photographers he was “proud” to have killed Taseer because he was a “blasphemer”.
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Adil Najam on the murder of Salman Taseer
“Salman Taseer was killed by the intolerance, the hatred, the extremism, the vigilantism, the violence and the jahalat that now defines our society.”
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Jesus and Mo do their act
“Tonight we’re going to put dogma before reason and then act upon our conclusions without regard to the consequences. Everybody sing.”
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Lahore: protests at killing of Taseer
Dozens of supporters of the PPP took to streets in Lahore on Tuesday. Dozens.
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Murtaza Razvi on the murder of Salman Taseer
Taseer’s outspoken defence of Aasia Bibi made him a hate figure for extremist and Islamist outfits and parties.
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BBC on the murder of Salman Taseer
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the guard told police that he killed Taseer because of the governor’s opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law.
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Salman Taseer murdered by his own security guard
Governor of Punjab opposed Pakistan’s blasphemy law.
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Rebecca Watson on Christianity and healthy eating
And Conservapedia. See this picture of Chuck Norris? QED.
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Theocrats aren’t apathetic, so why are you?
The religious right brazenly claims the moral high ground, insisting that their biblical interpretations allow them to dictate “family values” to everyone else.
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Blair talks more stupid kak about religion
“Common to all great religions is love of neighbors and human equality before God.” Please.
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More science eduation: more on species
The problem is to explain why nature is discontinuous rather than continuous.
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Science education: Coyne on speciation
The “biological species concept” and its connection to what most evolutionists see as “the species problem.”
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Cairo: demonstrations protest sectarianism
Human rights activists and bloggers are organizing a silent stand along the Kornish of Cairo on Friday afternoon.
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Nick Cohen on Hungary and the EU
Fidesz was elected with a clear mandate for change. If change involves attacking fundamental rights, that does not appear to be Brussels’s concern.
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Ashtiani case may be dismissed
“She said she wanted to sue some of those involved in the campaign to free her for ‘bringing disgrace on me and the country’.” Terrific.
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David Foster Wallace and Wittgenstein
Though it represented a clean break from philosophy, fiction offered something comparable to the feeling of aesthetic recognition in mathematical logic.