“I was told by my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to attack my enemies, and I did so.”
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why atheists are fed up
It’s because of all the bashing.
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Nick Cohen on the BBC on Amnesty International
It could not spare the time to interview Gita Sahgal or ask how an organisation that was once the pride of the liberal world has ended up preferring Islamists to feminists.
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Peru has tallest Jesus!
It’s taller than the one in Poland so ha! The one in Swiebodzin is 36 metres and the one in Lima is 37 so yaboosucks!
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Islamists winning in Egypt
One Salafist explained how she slowly converted to wearing a niqab. “It just takes time,” she said reassuringly. “You get used to it.”
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Terry Eagleton recycles his own dud jokes
And generates new stupidities.
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Italy: small firm downsizes by firing women only
“We are firing the women so they can stay at home and look after the children. In any case, what they bring in is a second income.”
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Barmaid demonstrates how the backlash works
Jesus and Mo play their parts obligingly.
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Saudi Arabia: Indonesian maid beheaded
Indonesia is stopping all maids from going to work in Saudi Arabia after the beheading of a maid last week for murdering her allegedly abusive employer.
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South Africa and ‘corrective rape’
“They were walking behind us. They just started swearing at me screaming: ‘Hey you lesbian, you tomboy, we’ll show you.”
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Secular law under threat in Rhode Island
The proposed “religious exemption” in RI would go well beyond New York’s.
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Hitchens on Bachmann
There is nothing about a bucolic upbringing that breeds the skills necessary to govern a complex society in an age of globalization and violent unease.
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The ‘Gandhi of Palestine’ awaits deportation
Salah’s British supporters blatantly lied about the revolting views which led to this action, though they have been documented in many places.
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On Greg Mortenson and Nicholas Kristof
Both seem to view themselves as secular saints. They extol their own gallantry and compassion as much as, if not more than, the causes they trumpet.
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No separation of church and state for Kansas
Brownback has thrown his support behind a “faith-based” program intended to make sure parolees don’t go back to prison.
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Another sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan
Twenty-nine-year old Abdul Sattar was sentenced to death on 21 June.
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Artist says SHE is offended by blasphemy fuss
Lopez said that she’s offended by people taking offence to the piece, and quite right too.
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Mosque breaks promise on homophobic speakers
It took the East London mosque just eight days to break its latest promise.
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NY bishops pitch a fit about same-sex marriage
Bishops issue a statement saying “we realize that our beliefs about the nature of marriage will continue to be ridiculed.” Srsly.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali answers questions
Very damn well.