There’s this scene with a belly dancer, see, and the music is a song that mentions Fatima. Blasphemy!
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Honda releases a car “for women only”
It’s pink.
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Samira Shackle talks to Mukhtar Mai
“As long as I live, I will keep fighting for the rights of women. Rape and cruelty happens everywhere, but here there is no justice for women when they fight.”
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Poland: bible-tearer may have acquittal overturned
Tearing up a bible at a rock concert is “the crime of offending religious sensibilities.”
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Broadcast journalist’s open letter to Dear Mr Misogynist
”There’s a reason why you don’t hear women on commercial talkback radio,” he said. ”No one wants to hear the whiny sound of a female voice. Us blokes get enough nagging at home!”
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Kunwar Khuldune Shahid on blaming the ideology, part 2
Women were ordered to be killed for conspiring against the religion by their ideological predecessors, so is it entirely the Taliban’s fault for following precedent?
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Turkish police fire tear gas at secularist march
Thousands of secularists protested at a banned rally in Ankara against what they see as an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist government.
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Here comes the hurricane theodicy
Israel. Teh gaze. Abortion. Hard Left Fascism. Teh gaze. Don’t forget teh gaze.
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Carl Zimmer in praise of the big old mess of science
When you find yourself captivated by someone talking to you about science in a way that makes you feel everything’s wonderfully simple, go look for the big old mess.
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India: a rape, Dalits, silence, intimidation
Higher-caste men gang-raped a Dalit girl, took pictures and passed them around. Her father saw them and killed himself.
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A fragmented approach to eliminating violence against women
As politicians squabble about sexism in modern Australia, action on violence against women must be more visible and better-coordinated.
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Church bombed in Kaduna, Nigeria
At least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in the suicide bombing in northern Nigeria.
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The Savile investigation expands
Gary Glitter has been arrested on suspicion of sex offences by police investigating Jimmy Savile abuse claims.
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Pessimism on Greece and Golden Dawn
What has depressed much of Greek society – from the liberal centre right to the liberal left – is the rapid rise of Golden Dawn.
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Malala’s father is optimistic about her future
Doctors at Queen Elizabeth hospital said she was still weak but stood every chance of making a good recovery.
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Malala is making great progress
Dr Dave Rosser gives a press conference, and so does her father Ziauddin Yousufzai. “Can she sit her exams?” “Yes, probably.”
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Malala is speaking; no signs of brain damage
Her parents are now in Birmingham to be with her.
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Mass. Supreme Court will hear “under God” pledge case
The plaintiffs claim daily classroom affirmation that the nation is “under God” violates state constitutional prohibitions against religious discrimination.
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Shehrbano Taseer on Malala Yousafzai
A repressive mindset has been allowed to flourish in Pakistan because of the madrassa system set up by power-hungry clerics.