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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Enfin, French women are getting pissed off
Journalist Jean-François Kahn said he was “practically certain” that what happened was not an attempted rape, but “an imprudence…the skirt-lifting of a domestic”.
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Anjem Choudary says invitation to Hay is off
The “How the light gets in” Hay festival has informed him that due to security advice the invitation has been withdrawn.
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Anjem Choudary to speak at “How the Light Gets In”
Festival director Hilary Lawson said pushing unpopular views underground is “irresponsible and dangerous”. -
No rapture surprise and puzzlement
No sign of Harold Camping.
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The Observer on Leila Ahmed on hijab
“Observing strict dress became one means of displaying egalitarian principles and conveying the wearer’s strength and authority.” Srsly?
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Telegraph spots more persecution of Christianity
The General Medical Council reprimanded a GP for pushing his religion on patients. Telegraph says they could always just ask him to stop.
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Nick Cohen on libel law v free flow of information
It is not as if the judges had to intervene to protect the public from information overload on the banking collapse.
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Teacher pulled from class for some goddy reason
There was this song about god, and the teacher said explain your thinking a little more, and we can’t have that.
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India: mob blinds “witch” with scissors
Eleven people stormed into a residence and assaulted a woman they accused of witchcraft, blinding her and her father by stabbing them in the eyes with scissors.
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Tahmima Anam visits some madrasas for girls
Rabeya and Ayesha are at the mission because they are poor; it is the only place where they are sure to be safe from hunger, abandonment, predators.
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LGBT rights row undermines Jim Wallis
His detractors believe that his is largely a ministry based on media attention, painting him as a skilful straddler and self-promoter.
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Rapture parties planned
If Jesus returns, he’s welcome to attend.
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NY Times on Vatican’s pathetic “guidelines”
The continuing stress on church priority in what essentially are criminal offenses is disheartening, Times says mildly.
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Muslim convert charged with threats
Threats against “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the episode that discussed drawing Mo and portrayed him in a bear suit.
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Philippines: Catholic church throwing its weight around
Catholic bishops are threatening to excommunicate President Aquino over government plans to provide free condoms and sex education.
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Sydney Morning Herald talks to Leo Igwe
Few people know as well as Leo Igwe just how deadly irrational beliefs can be.
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Cambridge all in a lather
The priest has allowed girls to serve during a Latin mass. Several members of the congregation were so outraged that they walked out in protest.
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Damian Thompson pitches a fit
About women servers at mass at Cambridge. What is the chaplain’s point? Trendy bastard.
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Review of Reasonable Atheism
Aikin and Talisse maintain that core beliefs like religion and politics are exactly the sort of things that should be discussed in mixed company.