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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Taliban lash girl for refusing a forced marriage
Two Taliban men held her down while a third man whipped her.
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Bhatti had been receiving death threats
He had said fatwas had been issued calling for him to be beheaded, by extremist clerics who were allowed to spread messages of violence with impunity.
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Salman Rushdie on the secular revolution
At its most optimistic – this could be the moment when the Islamic world moves beyond Islamism.
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Pakistan: minorities minister murdered
Shahbaz Bhatti, an advocate of reform of the country’s blasphemy laws and a Christian, was killed by gunmen in Islamabad.
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Norway is going to hell
It’s that wicked high literacy rate.
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LSE investigates Saif Gaddafi plagiarism claims
Allegations have emerged that he used a ghost writer, and copied sections of his thesis.
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John Esposito says “mainstream Islamists” are fine
They just want normal mainstream humdrum theocracy, not the bad scary extreme kind.
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Child brides in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
One bad effect of early marriage is the exclusion of women from education in favour of domestic work and child rearing.
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Telegraph pitches a fit about secular law
How dare judges not enforce theocracy?!
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Woman with measles spent time at 3 airports
Too bad she hadn’t been vaccinated.
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An important question for Freeman Dyson
Why should the public believe a few lone heretics rather than the vast body of scientists who have a plethora of published work to back up their claims?
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Ron Conte says: foreplay is evil
Intrinsically evil, at that.
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Angela Saini on the god confusion in India
Given that India is intent on becoming a scientific superpower, why are these odd ideas tolerated?
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Texas school board re-writes history
“In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system.”
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Stop the tsunami of executions – add your name
Demand an immediate end to this state-sponsored murder that aims to intimidate the protest movement in Iran.
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Jason Streitfeld on public displays of atheism
For many atheists, atheism is first and foremost about the rejection of religious authority.
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Andrew Gilligan on the East London Mosque and homophobia
The rise of homophobic hatred in Tower Hamlets is caused by the growth of Islamism under the influence of the mosque and its parent, the Islamic Forum of Europe.
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Taliban methods in East London
Four Muslim men pleaded guilty to an attack on a religious studies teacher who taught Muslim girls.
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Pope continues interfering in women’s lives
Ratzinger announces that “abortion solves nothing.” It solves nothing he has to worry about!