The burqa equates piety with the disappearance of women. The closer you are to God, the less I see of you.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Faked video gets black USDA official fired
Andrew Breitbart deceived millions of people by releasing only partial clips of Sherrod’s remarks at NAACP meeting.
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Peoria diocese wants to run the U of Illinois
The diocese and the St. John’s Catholic Newman Center tell the public university what it must do.
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Catholic organization pays teacher at U of Illinois
The St. John’s Catholic Newman Center hires and pays instructors of Catholic church history at a public university.
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Terry Glavin talks to Majabeen, a future doctor
Before she came to the orphanage, Majabeen had never been to school, so even now, she is only in Grade 6. But she is determined. -
Terry Glavin on universalism v culturalism
On the one hand Lauryn Oates, Sima Samar, Alaina Podmorow; on the other hand, “yes but.”
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Council tells schools how to enforce Ramadan
Stoke-on-Trent City Council issues an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools; no swimming lessons lest students swallow water.
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Science and religion as “ways of knowing”
If induction can’t be used to prove an absolute, is that really a problem that religion can solve?
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When men make lists of sexiest scientists
That sends a message about what the point of women is.
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Carlin Romano sniggers at Hitchens
What an ugly mind is here displayed.
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New Statesman interviews Ann Widdicombe
“I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw.”
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A heap of illiberal dreck in the New Statesman
Bryan Appleyard explains why religion is mandatory.
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Terry Sanderson defends secularism
Secularism protects us all from the authoritarianism that is characteristic of religion when it has temporal power.
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Archbishop explains why church excludes women
Women are just precious and darling, he said, but priests have always been men, and we can’t change that.
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Jason Rosenhouse asks: where’s the backlash?
The New Atheists are said to be bad for evolution acceptance and education, but the numbers show not the slightest evidence of a backlash.
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Johann Hari on Polanski and the “lynch mob”
It’s ok to drug and rape a 13-year-old girl as long as you’re an artist, we are told.
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“The New Atheists” have no evidence
“Think of the range of legitimate positions that can be taken on the question of whether earthworms are conscious.”
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Ratzinger’s office failed to act on child rape
Ratzinger was part of a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction.
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Clueless in Rome
“It’s not for canonical legislation to get itself involved with civil law,” one prelate airily declared.
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The Taliban war on women continues
When the Taliban told 22-year-old Hossai to quit her job, she refused to be bullied. She was shot and killed.