Another father who allegedly became outraged at his wife and daughters for dishonouring him and his religious and cultural beliefs.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fury in Pakistan over attack on Malala Yousafzai
It has been condemned by most of Pakistan’s major political parties and human rights groups including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Amnesty International.
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Loon wants death penalty for “rebellious children”
“The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21,” Charlie Fuqua wrote in his book God’s Law.
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Pakistan: girls’ rights activist, 14, shot
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman told the BBC that they attacked her because she is anti-Taliban and secular, adding that she would not be spared.
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Galloway sues National Union of Students for libel
The NUS called him a rape-denier after he said Assange had been accused of nothing more than “bad sexual etiquette”.
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Robin Morgan and Mona Eltahawy talk
“With a president from the Muslim Brotherhood movement and a still very powerful military, we’re caught between a very bad rock and a very horrible hard place.”
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Theocrats want both tax exemption and political partisanship
That’s unconstitutional, but theocrats don’t care about that.
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Boy chained at madrassa to stop him running away
The police said that the madrassa management had chained the boy a few days ago to prevent him from escaping.
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Germany: new law would permit religious circumcision
Because it’s religion that counts, not the rights of children.
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Ritual circumcisions resume in Germany
Yay! Parents allowed to have their infant boys trimmed again.
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Dalia Ziada warns Egypt’s revolution is backsliding
“I don’t believe there can be a democracy unless women are properly in power,” she said in a speech at Tufts University yesterday.
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Golden Dawn, Greece and blasphemy law
Golden Dawn’s popularity has been rising, so it can influence the public agenda, with help of populist Greek media and government’s fear of losing conservative voters.
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Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg review Thomas Nagel
The sciences that have worked so well for us are precisely our benchmark for what we know and what is rational; they’re the things that are keeping us “afloat.”
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LSE ASH retains its right to free expression
The cartoons will not be removed from the LSESU ASH page, nor will the prefix LSESU be removed from the society’s name.
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Students ejected from event for naming a pineapple Mohammed
The Reading University Atheist, Humanist, and Secularist Society had a stall that included a pineapple labeled “Mohammed.” You know the rest.
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26 complaints about What Doctors Don’t Tell You
The Nightingale Collaboration submitted complaints about 26 adverts in WDDTY to the Advertising Standards Authority. This may be a record.
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Jerusalem bus company Egged drops all advertising
“Egged has not given in to the Haredim. This is purely a business decision.” To avoid vandalism by the Haredim.
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Egypt: 2 children arrested for “desecrating” the Koran
One is 9, the other is 10.
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The kissing sailor and the unconsenting nurse
It turns out that was an assault, but it doesn’t do to say so.
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Salvation Army church propagandizing teenagers
Why would a church show D’Souza’s anti-Obama propaganda to teenagers? Their tax exemption requires them to be politically neutral.