Most of Uganda’s freethinkers keep their skepticism in the closet, but not James Onen.
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.
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Doonesbury at 40
Slate looks back.
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“Halal” hairdressing
Once your hair is dressed, you plaster it down with bandages. All very sensible.
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Leo Igwe pays tribute to Norm Allen
Allen encouraged many Western humanists to look beyond their borders and appreciate humanism from an African perspective.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali at National Press Club
“Is Islam a Religion of Tolerance?” No.
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Michael Zimmerman scolds Jerry Coyne
But the goal is more than just getting people to accept evolution and science. The goal is the promotion of reason.
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Mo is upset about militant atheists
Always complaining, never helping.
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Stanley Fish on sharia and liberal universalism
Liberal universalism has superficial respect for everyone (as long as everyone is superficial) and deep respect for no one, according to Fish.
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Statement from counsel in lawsuit against Timonen
No direct donations have been misappropriated.
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The numerology of real estate
These buyers are happy to pay a premium or forgo a better apartment just to get that “lucky” number.
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Wilders trial has backfired in every possible way
His defense includes calling expert witnesses to testify on the accuracy of his views of Islam.
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The rise of “Taliban Catholicism”
Reactionary Catholic bloggers monitor “traitorous” nuns and priests who are not Catholic enough.
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Blair’s sister-in-law converts to Islam
She went to Qom and felt “a shot of spiritual morphine,” so now she doesn’t eat pork.
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Dawkins’s foundation sues Timonen for embezzlement
RDF filed suit in California calleging that Timonen, who ran its online operation in America, stole $375,000 (£239,000) over three years.
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Speakers at the Global Peace and Unity shindig
Home page says “it’s recognised as the biggest multi-faith gathering of its kind anywhere across Europe.” Multi-faith?
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Tories shun the “Global Peace and Unity Event”
It’s billed as “multicultural” but it features a lot of homophobic misogynist fans of al Qaeda.
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Gay woman forced to marry to “protect honour”
The Forced Marriage Unit has received hundreds of calls from young gay men and women who fear being forced into marriage by their family.
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Pakistan: Islamists resist sexual harassment law
If a woman doesn’t obseverve “modesty in accordance with the teachings of the holy Quran and Shariah” she deserves to be harassed.
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Clarence Thomas, how about an apology?
Another witness steps forward. “He has manufactured a different reality over time. That’s the problem that he has.”
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“Hang them”: Uganda tabloid names gays
A list of Uganda’s 100 “top” homosexuals, with a yellow banner athat read: “Hang Them.” Alongside their photos were the men’s names and addresses.