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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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Archbishop Defends Attack on Secularism
‘We ought to keep an eye on this trend’ of increasing secularism.
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Ali Eteraz on Why Not Sharia
Sharia courts are outgrowths of local communities which exert ‘piety-pressure’ upon average believers.
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Johann Hari on the Archbishop’s Sharia Problem
The claim that women can choose shows a near-total disconnection from the reality of Muslim women’s lives.
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Crooked Timber Defends the Archbishop
He is merely muddling and tinkering to achieve ‘rough fairness’. Very rough.
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Murder Plot Against Danish Cartoonist
Danish police have arrested several people suspected of conspiring to kill a Danish cartoonist.
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How to Be Wise
Don’t pretend to know what you don’t know. Watch out for the hemlock.
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Mo Speaks Up on Kambaksh and Blasphemy
Nobody has the right to blaspheme Allah; that is why there are Islamic Human Rights.
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Saudis Take Giant Step Toward Women’s Rights
A woman can now stay in a hotel alone as long as she carries identification. Whatever next?!
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Manila Women Fight Contraception Ban in Court
Petitioners have had many more children than they wanted because they could not afford contraception.
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Cardinal Connell Withdraws Legal Challenge
Withdraws attempt to withold documents from Government inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse.
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Archbishop Still Clueless About Secularism
Wants ‘Christians and people of other faiths’ to reflect on the putative relationship between law and religion.
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No Valentines in Saudi Arabia
No red items allowed, including flowers and wrapping paper. Rutting in the street thus prevented.
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UN Calls for Women’s Rights in Saudi
A Saudi delegation told the UN committee that human rights in the kingdom were based on Sharia.
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Ruth Gledhill on What the Archbish Wants
Be sure to read the para just below the YouTube links. Then tear your hair.
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Catherine Bennett on the Archbishop’s Miracle
His challenge to equality under the law was so comically extreme that it clarified the issues handily.
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Nick Cohen on Silencing With Libel Laws
Rich organisations and people can use British courts to suppress the freedom democratic societies rely on.
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Blogging Darwin
Every single week, we at Nature publish new research that reinforces and further enlightens the Origin.
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The Archbishop Clarifies
Christians cannot claim exceptions from a secular unitary system if they are not willing to accommodate other religious consciences.
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Matthew Parris Says the Archbish is Dangerous
Is consent real, unanimous, complete? Is there duress? Is there undue influence?