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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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A note about links
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New Forced Marriage Power Planned
Ministers may let third parties intervene in coercive relationships where victims are too scared to act.
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Call to Prayer Application in Oxford
A two-minute call three times a day. Ibrahim Mogra of the MCB says most residents get used to it.
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BHL on Grieving for Benazir
We should have seen many heads of state, to make the funeral a global demonstration for democracy and peace.
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UN Passes ‘Defamation of Religions’ Resolution
At the behest of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
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Keith Porteous Wood on Blasphemy Super-law
The individual’s rights are in great danger of becoming alienated in favour of group rights – often for religions.
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Universality of Human Rights v Cairo Declaration
The Cairo Declaration definition of human rights differs widely from those of the UDHR.
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Mediawatchwatch Reads the UN Resolution
‘The right to freedom of expression should be exercised with responsibility and may therefore be subject to limitations…’
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War on Xmas is War on Secularists
‘Yesterday’s Herod is today’s Dawkins and Toynbee, seeking the total extermination of all forms of Christianity.’
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NAS Tries to Close Science-Religion Gap
‘Acceptance of evolution does not require abandoning belief in God.’ Fine; next question?
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Kenya’s Humanitarian Crisis Grows
At least 180,000 people have been displaced by unrest.
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Ethnic Cleansing at the University of Eastern Africa
‘They demanded that all Kikuyus, Kambas, Meru, and Kisii people leave the university within two hours.’
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Meera Nanda on How India Sees Itself
‘Only 18 per cent Americans had no doubts about the superiority of their culture, compared with our 64 per cent.’
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Politicians Exploit Kenyan Tribal Differences
It is no coincidence that the people who usually perpetrate ‘tribal violence’ are unemployed young men.
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‘My Murders Better Than Your Murders’
Narendra Modi is implicated in the Gujarat killings, but Congress has a guilty past too.
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BBC Profile of Narendra Modi
Some call him the merchant of death.
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Ethnic Tensions Divide Kenya
Tribal feeling usually lies dormant in Kenya, but once it’s awake, things get bad.
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Jasvinder Sanghera on Forced Marriage
A girl of 14 was forced to marry an older man who raped her to conceive a child to make the marriage work.
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Celebrities Making Fewer Mistakes on Science
Sense About Science launched a drive for celebrities to check the facts before making claims.
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A C Grayling on the Importance of Autonomy
Are individuals capable of overcoming limitations to achieve by will and endeavour what they identify as good?