“A lot of people had gathered,” Rimsha’s sister said, “and they were saying: ‘We will cut off the hands of the people who burned the Koran.’”
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The horrors of “conversion therapy”
“I was doing something spiritually and morally wrong that I would be punished for in the afterlife. And so there was a lot of fear and terrible desperation.”
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Pakistan minister offers bounty to kill film-maker
“I announce today that this blasphemer who has abused the holy prophet, if somebody will kill him, I will give that person a prize of $100,000,” the railways minister said.
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Australia: Catholic Church admits child sex abuse
Campaigners say the true number of abuse victims could be up to 10,000.
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Demands for global “blasphemy” law must be resisted
The uproar over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video is incredibly convenient and timely for OIC countries still bent on introducing an international ‘blasphemy’ law.
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Deeyah’s film about “honour” killing of Banaz Mahmod
Produced and directed by Deeyah, this documentary chronicles the brutal murder of Banaz Mahmod in suburban London in 2006, killed and “disappeared” by her own family.
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David Robert Grimes on homeopathy
It’s a good rule of thumb that any treatment that would have to violate the laws of physics to be viable is probably unlikely to be biologically effective
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Parents plead guilty in faith healing death of son
The boy, 16, died in pain from a burst appendix; his parents prayed instead of getting medical treatment.
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Child ‘marriages’ and Sharia courts: It must end now
There is growing evidence that young children – some as young at 5 years old – are being “married” to older men in Sharia courts across Britain.
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“They’re just words”
Indeed, just the verbal incantations of power, like law and code and everything else that made the world.
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CFI says global blasphemy laws are a terrible idea
“There is no reason to extend protections to beliefs, the reputations of figures dead for millennia, or the feelings of religious believers.”
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Mo finds The Onion Islamophobic
Because it doesn’t make a joke about Islam.
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Romney’s contempt for the 47%
They depend on government, they think they’re victims, they pay no income tax, it’s not Romney’s job to worry about them.
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Tea Party even less popular than atheists!
The Tea Party ranks “dead last” in a CBS poll, after even atheists.
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IHEU condemns faith-based violence
At the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council Sept 12, Roy Brown read a text by Leo Igwe, pointing out discrimination, oppression and violence against the non-religious.
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How To Exclude Women Without Really Trying
One way is to say let’s get more women into programming because that will make it more attractive for the men.
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Rage boys rage in Afghanistan, Indonesia
Student protesters were also mobilized to denounce the film in Iran, where Khamenei blamed the West’s “Islamophobic policies of arrogance and Zionism.”
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Judge throws out Wisonsin anti-union law
A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
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California: acupuncture as ‘essential’ health care?
Acupuncture, “for the treatment of nausea or as part of a comprehensive pain management program,” is included with a $30 copay per visit.
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Iran renews the fatwa on Salman Rushdie
Iran has seized on the current movie-rage to revive the death threat against Rushdie, raising the reward for killing him by $500,000.
