Media Round-up
Media Round-up is a daily collation of news and opinion relevant to secularism. Links may be provided to articles peripheral to secularism when we think they are likely to be of particular interest to secularists. Links are provided to external websites for information and in the interests of free exchange. We do not accept any responsibility for the content of those sites, nor does a link indicate approval or imply endorsement of those sites.
Sat, 06 Apr 2013
Sweeping anti-abortion bill goes to Kansas governor
AP, 6 April 2013
Keeping God out of science classes in an Obama administration
Religion Dispatches, 6 April 2013
Why North Carolina can’t have its own official church
LA Times, 6 April 2013
What can animals tell us about our morality?
Daily Beast, 6 April 2013
Federal judge orders morning after pill be made available to women of all ages
NY Times, 6 April 2013
Human rights groups fear crippling restrictions from Egypt’s new law
Guardian, 6 April 2013
Associated Press revises meaning of “Islamist” in its style book
US News, 6 April 2013
Paralysis or blood money? Skewed justice in Saudi Arabia
Guardian, 6 April 2013
Are liberals the AKPs 'useful idiots'?
Daily News, 5 April 2013
Fri, 05 Apr 2013
Blackmail allegations against Ratzinger could be more than speculation – NSS quoted
PolicyMic, 5 April 2013
Do religious symbols have a place at work?
Management Today, 5 April 2013
Male circumcision rituals leave two kids with herpes
NY Daily News, 5 April 2013
Islamism is winning the cognitive war – thanks to manipulative and gullible journalists
Telegraph, 5 April 2013
Three’s a trend? Death sentence dropped for third Pakistan blasphemy victim
Christianity Today, 5 April 2013
Newcastle United opens prayer room for Muslim players
Mirror, 5 April 2013
Rape is rape and Christianity isn’t the answer to it – NSS letter
Scotsman, 5 April 2013
Islam’s global civil war matters to us all
National Post, 5 April 2013
I used to be an Islamist
Commentator, 5 April 2013
North Carolina seeks an established church
The Atlantic, 5 April 2013
North Carolina’s theocrats unmasked
Richard Dawkins, 5 April 2013
Oregon priest sentenced for abusing 12 year old boy
Washington Post, 5 April 2013
Church covered up abusive priest’s history after he was given job as hospital chaplain
Chicago Tribune, 5 April 2013
Priest charged with indecent assault
Lancashire Post, 5 April 2013
New trial denied ex-priest convicted of raping altar boys
Berkshire Eagle, 5 April 2013
Italian priest defrauded hospital out of millions
AFP, 5 April 2013
Catholic Church denies concealing child abuse details in Darlington
D&S Times, 5 April 2013
UK students given book that says “every Muslim should be a terrorist”
The Commentator, 5 April 2013
Exclusive Brethren buy school site
EADT, 5 April 2013
Americans love the Bible (but can’t be bothered to read it)
Washington Post, 5 April 2013
Pakistani election candidates face religious vetting
WSJ, 5 April 2013
Air France fined for forcing non-Jewish passenger off flight
The Age, 5 April 2013
Turkey’s secularists worried by gigantic new mosque
Ansamed, 5 April 2013
Arrest of ‘blasphemous’ atheist bloggers sparks protests in Bangladesh
Examiner, 5 April 2013
Aid and abortion
Guardian, 5 April 2013
Thu, 04 Apr 2013
Children of devout parents are perfect targets for abusive priests
WA Today, 4 April 2013
Keighley nursery under fire for not enforcing halal food rules
Telegraph & Argus, 4 April 2013
Islamofascism – a real term for a real problem
Isocracy, 4 April 2013
Islamic cleric decrees it’s OK for Syrian rebels to rape women
Washington Times, 4 April 2013
Arrogant Catholic leaders have a desire “not to know” – abuse inquiry hears
The Age, 4 April 2013
Daily Mail lectures atheists about extremism
Daily Mail, 4 April 2013
New atheists guilty as charged over “Islamophobia”
Guardian, 4 April 2013
Pregnant Kurdish teenager could be killed by relatives
EKurd, 4 April 2013
Femen declare topless jihad against fanatics
Huffington Post, 4 April 2013
Pope patronises women and is praised for it
Jezebel, 4 April 2013
Sri Lanka’s secularism in danger from local Talibanisation
Asian Tribune, 4 April 2013
Amnesty condemns Egypt’s escalating crackdown on free expression
Amnesty International, 4 April 2013
Investigation ordered into blasphemy charges against actress
Egypt Independent 4 April 2013
After eight years in jail, Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy charge
Catholic Culture, 4 April 2013
Wed, 03 Apr 2013
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne says Catholic Church is "a force for evil"
Irish Central, 3 April 2013
