HRW says Indian govt should investigate Narendra Modi for apparently endorsing the extrajudicial execution.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Children Accused as Witches in Nigeria
Tortured, driven out, killed, while Evangelical preachers drive around in Mercedes.
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Debate on Apostasy in Islam
‘Sir, if you become an apostate, your punishment is death.’
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Muslim ‘Apostates’ Threatened
Religious persecution of the kind Sofia suffers is increasingly common in Britain today.
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California Diocese Leaves Episcopal Church
Diocese of San Joaquin the first to break from US church over its relatively liberal views on homosexuality.
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What is ‘Cultural Understanding’?
Half the world can go on thinking it has a right to imprison and execute whenever it considers its feelings hurt.
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Stephen Law Discusses With Ibrahim Lawson
Religious education, critical thinking for children, the nuclear option in argument.
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Why Are Islam’s Moderates so Quiet?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali ponders the silence about ‘the Qatif girl,’ Taslima Nasreen, Gillian Gibbons.
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Austin Statesman on Texas Education Agency
‘An employee shouldn’t look like they are siding with one camp over another,’ Agency spokeswoman said.
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Barbara Forrest on Chris Comer’s Forced Resignation
One wonders why TEA would even want to remain ‘neutral’ concerning the ID movement’s goal.
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Galloway Goes Creationist
His baby doesn’t look like an accident of evolutionary chance to him. Ah – persuasive.
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Text of Romney’s Paean to ‘Faith in America’
‘We do not insist on a single strain of religion – rather, we welcome our nation’s symphony of faith.’
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NPR’s Science Friday Talks to Christine Comer
Way too brief and superficial, but interesting.
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NCSE Latest on the Comer Controversy
‘We were actually told in a meeting that if creationism is the party line, we have to abide by it.’
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The Abu Ghanem Trial
Hamda was the eighth female relative in six years believed to have been the victim of an ‘honor killing.’
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Publisher on Trial for ‘Insulting Turkishness’
Up to three years in prison for publishing a book promoting reconciliation between Turks and Armenians.
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Cleric Issues Orders to Taslima Nasreen
‘The apology must bear her assurance that she will desist from repeating such venomous writing that may have any inkling of blasphemy.’
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Hitchens on Romney’s Nonsense
Would he expect a Scientologist to be able to avoid questions about L. Ron Hubbard?
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Creationist Biologist Sues Over Dismissal
Suit raises the question: Can people work in a scientific field if they don’t believe in its basic tenets?
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Hitchens on Hanukkah
An explicit celebration of the original victory of bloody-minded faith over enlightenment and reason.
