The Toronto Star sent a reporter who has for years celebrated the hijab and niqab to cover the trial of her father and brother.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Gita Sahgal’s speech at One Law for All rally
Beware when you hear talk of balancing of rights. Generally, it a code for denying women rights.
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Texas Republicans go for broke
Make gay marriage a felony! Legalize whuppin’ in public schools! Make Obama a non-citizen in Texas! Yee-ha.
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Jerry Coyne on one-sided dialogue
Many people have discarded their faith because its tenets were either philosophically insupportable or in conflict with the palpable facts about the world.
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Israel: Haredi schooling is under pressure
All they study is the Talmud.
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French world cup coach relies on astrology
How’s that going for him?
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Pakistan considering death penalty for Facebook CEO
Pakistani penal code makes “defiling Muhammed” a crime punishable by death. And that applies globally?
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Texas Republicans want to criminalize “sodomy”
Also want to make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple.
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Chris Mooney incites new round of atheist-bashing
“I rose and posed a question…how will you foster dialogue with the New Atheists?”
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Teach children the bible and protect them from ethics!
Once kids have a strong grounding in what “the gospel is all about, they won’t be so easily falling for the ethics material.”
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We notice things selectively
We don’t see everything there is, and we need to keep that in mind.
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Results of Cherie Blair inquiry ‘were covered up’
Office for Judicial Complaints told the public one thing, the NSS another.
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Margaret Drabble on Jane Austen
Finds Virginia Woolf on Austen almost as imbecilic as E M Forster ditto.
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Julian Baggini reviews Marilynne Robinson
What might look like subtlety is too often plain sloppiness.
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FGM in Northern Iraq
Girls who hear the screams and try to run away are dragged back for their turn.
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Zakir Naik to headline Toronto conference
In videos on YouTube, Naik advocates death to homosexuals and to Muslims who leave the faith.
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Leo Igwe on caste in Igboland, Nigeria
Nwadiala regard themselves as people of ‘pure blood’ and Osu as people of ‘impure blood’.
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London council drops prayer for poetry
Telegraph claims, “The vast majority of councils choose to start meetings with Christian Prayers.”
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Ayala says you can have it all
“If humans came about by evolution, then the Bible isn’t wrong when it says that humans were created in the image of God.”
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Clumsy cover-up in Cherie Blair case
The Office for Judicial Complaints sent its letter to the NSS second class.