In one afternoon, the Vatican destroyed more than a decade of patient campaigning for condom use.
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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The Pope’s Horrific Ignorance
The ruthless cleric’s ‘teaching’ takes no account of women whose husbands are infected.
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An Epidemiologist Rebukes the Pope
Denying the fact that condom use reduces the spread of AIDS makes the pope seem either ignorant or malicious.
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Bible Only Way to Prevent AIDS, Says Pope
Experts recommend latex instead.
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Egypt, Pakistan Push Resolution Curbing Speech
Pakistan recently circulated a resolution ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’ to UN diplomats in Geneva.
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Russell Blackford on Human Rights
Freedom of speech is the most important freedom of all and should not be abridged without very powerful reasons.
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Our Eyes Can Deceive Us
Eyewitness evidence should be treated as trace evidence, subject to contamination, deterioration and corruption.
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AIG, Where Taxpayers’ Dollars Go to Die
The geniuses bet more than double AIG’s value that defaults would not become problematic.
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How Do They Justify This Outrage?
The bonuses are linked to performance; the performance wrecked the global economy; what bonus is owed?
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Judge Says: Don’t Call it ‘Honour’
A woman set fire to her child in attempt to incriminate her brother’s wife, who had escaped.
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‘Bullying and Intimidation’ by Secular Groups
‘Modern liberalism has strong totalitarian tendencies,’ says Catholic archbishop of Sydney.
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‘Chastity Squad’ Thug Sentenced to 4 Years
He was hired to assault and intimidate a woman who ‘defaulted’ on the proper haredi way of life.
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Vatican Backpedals on Brazil
Prelate, writing in Vatican newspaper, urges respect for the Catholic doctors.
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‘It’s Not Right to Betray Your Community’
So shut up about the rapes and beatings and forced marriage. Or else.
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Thousands of Girls Genitally Mutilated in UK
If they discussed it ‘they’d be seen as betraying their family and their community and culture.’
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Liberal Muslims Feel Betrayed by Labour
Bengali liberals view Jamaat-e-Islami as UK liberals view the BNP: the enemy of all their best principles.
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Stewart v Cramer
Cramer was pummelled like a rope-a-dope over his profession’s failure to be an effective watchdog.
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Reporters Without Borders on Kambakhsh
Includes a petition to President Karzai urging him to quash the sentence and release Kambakhsh.
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Norway: Woman Celebrates Women’s Day
Sara Azmeh Rasmussen burned her hijab to protest the oppression of women in Islam. [French]
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Man Claims to Cure AIDS With Water
Brian Marshall has allegedly been selling bottled water as a cure for the virus since late last year.
