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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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Secular Hospitals Recommended
Panel recommends that France adopt a charter to keep religious traditions out of hospitals.
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President Jammeh of Gambia Undertakes Cures
‘I can treat asthma and HIV/Aids and the cure is a day’s treatment.’
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Persecution of Baha’is of Iran
Report finds more persecution since election of Ahmadinejad and resurgence of other conservatives.
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Lawrence Summers Notes That Science Matters
There is an increasing move away from respecting the scientific method in US schools.
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Poll Shows Some Interesting Views
74% of young Muslims think women should wear the hijab. 31% think apostates should be killed.
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Grayling Replies to Bunting
If this were 1950s Ireland, Bunting might not be writing anything.
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Blair Rules Out Exemption for Catholics
Kelly cites both sides’ ‘passionately held views, expressed with real conviction.’
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RCC the Representative of Liberty as Such
William Rees-Mogg notes how English Mill seems, how un-English Kant was.
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Church Now Plans to Create ‘Gay Rights Martyrs’
Will break law rather than close adoption agencies, then cite HR Act on freedom of religious expression.
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Cardinal Tries to Explain – but What is ‘Conscience’?
‘This is about the rights of the government to legislate, but is also about the rights of conscience.’
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Hitchens Reviews Cohen
Cohen started out trying to defend the honour of the left, and attempting to appeal to its better traditions.
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After Village Gang-rape, Mukhtar Fought Back
Such was her sense of outrage and injustice that she refused to commit suicide.
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Doctor Urges Muslims to Avoid ‘un-Islamic’ Vaccines
Breast-feed as the Koran says, eat Koranic food like olives, do ablution; you will have a strong defence system.
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Church Appears Profoundly Un-Christian
The Catholic Church, like many historic religious bodies, is not at the bottom of the heap.
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MCB Divided Over Holocaust Day
Organisations such as the Islamic Foundation and the British Muslim Forum will be represented.
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Call it Primitive Multi-culturalism
‘We grant the greatest respect, in fact a moral privilege, to conscience.’ But what is ‘conscience’?
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Dublin Imam Talks Sense, Gets Death Threats
Anti-apartheid activist fled Islamist death threats in South Africa, was shocked to find MB in Dublin.
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The Moral Maze on ‘Conscience’ and the Law
Johann Hari rocks.
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Vietnamese PM Visits Vatican
Seen as sign of future ‘diplomatic relations’ between Hanoi and Vatican. So much for secularism.