It reminds him of “Tom Johnson.” Who, exactly, are all these people who call their opponents baby rapers?
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Azar Majedi on political Islam
At the Toronto conference on the effect of the globalization of political Islam on women’s rights.
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Dolls repainted in burqas – joke or criticism?
Artist Bronwen Gray, who designed the dolls, saw the anonymous repainting of her work in political terms.
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Saudi role-reversal comedy irritates men
A woman takes four husbands. Imams are not amused.
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Telegraph poisons the well
By using the epithet “Dr Death” in the headline.
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Militant atheists crush freedom
Mark Helprin is worried about “the rise of anti-religious orthodoxy.”
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Mohammed Mostafaei talks to the BBC
He says his long campaign for human rights and respect for the rule of law will continue, whether he’s inside Iran or in exile.
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Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
PZ explains why it’s much, much more complicated than Kurzweil thinks.
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How settling with the Taliban puts women at risk
If we’re going to be realistic, let’s at least face what the sacrifices would be.
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Bad Science: AstraZeneca exec admits “burying” data
Doctors and academics know there are only informal and ad hoc systems to deal with buried data, and these systems have clearly failed.
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NHS Tayside sacks 500, seeks homeopath
At £68,000 a year. Everybody should apply.
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Russian tycoon to employees: join church or lose jobs
Says the drought and fires are “punishment for the Russian people’s sins.” Doesn’t say how he knows.
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Pink Triangle outraged at the attack on Leo Igwe’s parents
PTT secretary George Broadhead said: “Mr Igwe has demonstrated his staunch support for LGBT rights.”
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See here, chaps, what Afghan chaps do is their own affair
Is it not presumptuous to insist that a proud, patriarchal society that has survived for 3,000 years should now instantly stop cutting women’s noses off?
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Surprise: jobless women don’t need babies
The need for abortion goes up in a recession because pregnancy doesn’t magically make women financially secure.
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Scots peer campaigns for biblical law
“The Bible is a unique resource as the foundational source book for Scotland’s legal system.”
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Taliban stones a couple in a crowded bazaar
“The Taliban warned villagers if anyone does anything un-Islamic, this will be their fate.”
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Clerical rape survivor “shattered” by pope’s decision
“If those two had stood up, children would have been stopped from being abused. The fact that the Pope doesn’t see that is the final straw for me.”
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Pope rejects resignations of Dublin bishops
Deirdre Kenny of the One in Four group, which supports survivors of clerical rape, called it an “extraordinary decision by the Vatican.”
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Four horsemen video
It’s non-believers who are the most indignant and outraged; what is that about?