And the militant atheist hate campaign against him.
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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Ashtiani forced to do another tv “interview”
The judiciary system, the state television, and the diplomatic system have been mobilized against an imprisoned woman.
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Ashtiani’s son refused visit again
At Tabriz prison he was told: “Sakineh is still not permitted to visit with you. Stop bothering us and don’t come back.”
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Andrew Brown speaks up for the pope
“The invective thrown at the pope and his church over the last week must come partly from people who would like to drive religious faith out of public life.”
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Protest the pope on Saturday
Hyde Park Corner, 1:30 p.m. Be there.
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Seattle “Draw Mo” cartoonist goes into hiding
No more cartooning for Molly Norris!
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Brendan O’Neill defends pope from savage atheists
Those horrible new atheists think any kind of sexual abuse of a child by a priest is a bad thing. Can you believe it?!
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NPR calls pope-protesters “militant” atheists
Athiests call NPR militant pope-huggers.
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Has Karen Armstrong read Feuerbach?
The real irony is that Feuerbach’s argument is above all applicable to the elusive, ungraspable ‘God’ for which Karen Armstrong makes her case.
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Transcript of the pope’s disgusting speech
“We can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society…”
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“Temporary marriage” in Iran
The man pays the woman to “marry” him for an hour or more; no adultery, no stoning, no problems.
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Ratzinger compares atheists to Nazis
“As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget” to libel atheists every chance we get.
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Pope in UK, continues attack on secularism
Urges UK to “maintain its respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more aggressive forms of secularism no longer value or even tolerate.”
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Sweden: center-right government likely to win
Support for the government sharply picked up along with the economy’s performance, sending Reinfeldt’s alliance past Mona Sahlin’s opposition bloc.
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US to sell $60 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia
Yes, Saudi Arabia.
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Third Iranian diplomat resigns and seeks asylum
Farzad Farhangian joins Hossein Alizadeh and Mohammed Reza Heydari in Green Wave protest over 2009 election.
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Which invisible beings does our Leader believe in?
Obviously we cannot know what the supreme leader truly believes deep in his primary blood-pumping organ.
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Open letter to Facebook on Namazie and Ahadi
Their campaign to save Ashtiani is vital, so their accounts must be restored as a matter of urgency. [Namazie’s now has been, but Ahadi’s has not.]
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Ben Goldacre on the pope and Aids
Sabotaging an effective intervention which prevents a disease that kills 2 million people a year makes you a serious global public health problem.
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LRB on the Institute of Ideas gang
A Trotskyist splinter turned libertarian splinter.