Because there is no exception when the woman’s life is at stake. Ireland says this is sensitive and deep.
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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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Not festive reading for Catholic clerics in Dublin and Rome
How could they have allowed a man they knew to have a track record as a child abuser go forward for ordination as a priest?
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Witheld chapter of Murphy report to be published
Material on Tony Walsh was witheld because criminal proceedings were pending on charges of the sexual abuse of three children.
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Pope says Christians are the most persecuted
Cites “sophisticated forms of hostility to religion, which, in Western countries, occasionally find expression in the rejection of religious symbols.”
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Joseph Hoffmann on giving up on spirituality
Rule number one: it has to be easy. Rule two: it has to be available. Rule three: it has to be blendable.
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Jack of Kent on Pilger on Assange
Pilger cheerfully accuses others of criminal activity while briskly dismissing such accusations against Assange.
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William Chittick on the Islamic notion of mercy
“The Prophet said that God puts into hellfire only those who refuse to go anywhere else.” How merciful.
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A flawed museum show on “Muslim Heritage”
“1001 Inventions,” the literature says, “is a nonreligious and non-political project.” But it actually is a little religious and even more political.
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Natasha Fatah on the cost of Sweden’s kindness
Malmö was supposed to be a symbol of Sweden’s multiculturalism. But it is in danger of turning into an Islamist ghetto. -
Berlusconi hangs on by 3 votes
And riots erupt in Rome.
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Sudan’s “judiciary” launches “investigation”
Oh, you saw that? Well we’ll look into it right away. We’re shocked, shocked.
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Life with sadistic laughing bastards
In Sudan, watching men whip a terrified woman is a source of amusement.
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The “Islamophobia” myth
American Jews are far more likely to be the victims of religious hate crime than members of any other group.
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Pakistan: doctor arrested for “blasphemy”
A sales rep named Mohammed Faizan gave the doctor a business card; the doctor put it in the wastebasket. Blasphemy!
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Sweden bomber lived in Luton
He had a BSc in sports therapy from the University of Bedfordshire and a hobby of trying to explode people.
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Nigeria: court rules against Helen Ukpabio
Last year over 150 thugs from Ukpabio’s Liberty Gospel Church invaded a workshop on Witchcraft and Child Rights and attacked the organizers.
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Ghana: woman burned to death for being a “witch”
Ama Hemmah was allegedly tortured into confessing she was a witch, doused in kerosene and set on fire.
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Simon Blackburn replies to Sam Harris
It’s one thing to know the world, it’s another to care.
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Swedish police confirm terror attack
Elements in Somalia linked to al-Qaida have been recruiting young people from Sweden.
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“Your children — daughters and sisters — will die”
Deep, deep, deep anger in “the Muslim world” over Lars Vilks’s Mohammed cartoon. Boom.