‘Forced marriage is a form of domestic violence and a human rights abuse.’
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
Inevitably links go out of date.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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Foreign Office on Forced Marriage Unit
‘Forced marriage is not a religious or cultural issue – it is a global human rights abuse.’
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Home Office: ‘Faith’: Forced Marriage
‘Forced marriage is an abuse of human rights and cannot be justified on any religious or cultural basis.’
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Intelligent Design and Stupid Education
Cultural critics of ‘the dominance of the scientific elite’ lay the groundwork.
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John Gray on Dennett and Wolpert
Relies on claim that belief is peripheral to religion, and calls others ‘naive’. Hmm.
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Letters on Wiesltier’s Review of Dennett
Everyone thinks it’s stupid and bad and awful. Very pleasing.
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Anti-abortion Group Posts People’s Addresses
Call people ‘baby murderers’ then provide their addresses. Nice.
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Education Ministers Say Silly Things
Worker needs not vocational knowledge but research skills, imagination, rigour in thought and argument.
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Taliban ‘Roving Envoy’ Goes to Yale
Blames Ministry of Vice and Virtue, though he defended it in the past.
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South Park’s ‘Inappropriate Ridicule’ of Religion
Of Scientology, that is. ‘He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion.’
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Dawkins on Selfish Gene’s 30th Anniversary
‘Many critics, especially vociferous ones learned in philosophy, prefer to read a book by title only.’
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The Court Laughed in Their Faces
Two blunt sentences in Kitzmiller decision punctured an illusion crafted by proponents of ID.
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Marek Kohn on Breaking the Spell
Scientists must develop accounts of how religion arises from the way the mind works.
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Interview With Daniel Dennett
‘There were too many presumptions in the air about the elevated status of religious presuppositions.’
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Bruce Bawer’s Pamphlet on Islamism
Eric Weinberger suggests Europe may get Ulsterization rather than Balkanization.