Only by suppressing women can priests and imams hold down the power of sex, the flesh and the devil.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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“Institute for Ideas” calls “new” atheists witch hunters
Says we should tolerate the pope, complains of hysterical demonization of religious groups.
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Ireland: science minister backs anti-evolution book
Conor Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister of State for Science, is to launch a friend’s book that describes evolution as a scientific hoax.
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Remember us! a letter from Ashtiani’s children
“We don’t really know what would have become of us if we didn’t have Mr. Kian in Iran, and you abroad.”
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Maryam Namazie asks: whose culture?
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s culture (educated until 5th grade) who ‘wants to live’ or that of the Islamic regime of Iran that wants to kill her?
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Fella says sharia is just fine
“Rules on such things as adultery or fornication function almost entirely as moral exhortations.” Oh really?
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Iran: women on the frontline of the fight for rights
“”They were at the very forefront, leading the chanting of the slogans,” notes Maryam Namazie.
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Edge remembers George C Williams
“One of the most brilliant writers in the history of science,” says Steven Pinker.
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Why even atheists are defensive about Islam
And a terrific shout-out for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
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Nick Cohen: societies without god are more benevolent
If the denunciations of wicked atheists coming from today’s apologists for religion are any guide, the spirit of Iron Age Israel is abroad now.
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Yale rabbi says “faith” is mandatory for a president
“Faithlessness and nihilism are the greatest threats to humanity, and a leader who believes in nothing becomes Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot.”
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Ratzinger on Hawking: we totally love the dude
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says we always knew about the gravity thing but we weren’t supposed to tell.
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Stoning is not such a great idea
It is the law in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, and the 12 Muslim-majority states of northern Nigeria.
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Financial Times reviews Robertson on Ratzinger
A persuasive case for the prosecution, so persuasive that the reviewer may join the protests.
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Eagleton reviews Robertson on Ratzinger
Terry gets it right for once; no flattery for the pope or the Vatican.
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Belgian child abuse report exposes Catholic clergy
476 instances, 13 suicides, documented cases of abuse in almost every diocese and in virtually every school run by the church.
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Dublin: more graves found at mother and baby “home”
219 unmarked graves of infants who died of malnutrition and neglect have now been found.
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More on Ashtiani
The regime wants to fool people into thinking Ashtiani is safe; she is not.
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The lie behind ‘suicides’ of Egypt’s young women
Officially, Egypt has no “honour” killings. Young women may commit suicide, yes, but they are never murdered.
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Belgium: hundreds report sexual molestation by priests
Cardinal acknowledged that damage control often took precedence over concerns for victims in sexual abuse cases involving clergy.