The NSS thinks that schools should be secular places and that religion should play no part in them.
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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Literary Prize Blocks Random House
Random House has exhibited cowardly self-censorship so Langum Charitable Trust won’t consider its titles.
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Pakistan Post Blasts Balochistan Senator
Defending barbarism in the name of tribal ‘justice’ is a crime in itself.
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Balochistan Govt Twists Facts About Murders
Seen as a bid to save the perpetrator, said to be the younger brother of a PPP cabinet minister.
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Obama Answers Science Debate Questions
The other fella hasn’t answered.
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Regent’s Park Mosque Preacher Says ‘Kill Them’
Adulterers, converts, gays, women who ‘make themselves like a man’ – kill them all.
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Pakistan: Senator Defends Murder of 5 Women
Baloch Senator Israr Ullah Zehri said ‘these are our norms which should not be highlighted negatively’.
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Baluch Tribal Traditions ‘Help Stop Obscenity’
Zehri told MPs to stop making such a fuss. ‘Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid.’
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What Does Humanism Mean?
Nigel Warburton asks Andrew Copson. One thing it’s not is some sort of quasi-religion.
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Women Imams Preach Killing of Gays, ‘Apostates’
‘He is Muslim and he gets out of Islam. What are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill.’
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‘Religious Beliefs’ Outweigh Medical Hygiene
Radiographer told to bare forearms or lose job. She believes her ‘diversity human rights’ were violated.
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Inside Orissa’s Communal Caldron
The underlying cause is the battle between Hindus and Christian converts over reservations.
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Secularists Are Not the Anti-Christ
Cardinal Brady is demanding the right to control the way of life of every citizen in every European country.
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Why Self-flagellation Matters
Those adults who engage in self-flagellation do so with a consciousness of the ceremonial nature of the act.
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Like Everything Else, It’s About ‘Choice’
If parents have the right to believe what they like, their children have the right learn that some things are wrong.
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Giordano Bruno
Once he mounted the pyre, a crucifix was held up to his face; he turned away angrily.
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Carl Elliott in Defense of the Beta Blocker
Especially good performance enhancers when the performance involves an anxiety-producing public setting.
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Stephen Law’s Book Club Starts
Even if religious leaders do have expertise on ethical issues, that doesn’t entail we should defer to them.
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Grayling on Religion and Self-inflicted Pain
Christianity and Hinduism can offer examples that make zanjir self-flagellation look like a haircut.
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No Eating at Council Meetings During Ramadan
‘No one religion should be accorded more status or influence than others,’ says Lib-Dem councillor.