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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Belfast court blocks forced marriage
The judge imposed a forced marriage protection order for the girls aged 12 and 14.
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Saudi cleric fired for advocating sanity
He suggested that women and men should be allowed to mix socially. Blasphemy!
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Brain-training games are just games
They don’t improve general cognitive abilities.
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Indonesia: court upholds blasphemy law
If Indonesia’s constitutional court had overturned the law, other religions would have been allowed to practice freely.
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The religious lobby and women’s rights
Why would a modernising ‘New’ Labour, which claims to uphold the rights of women and minorities, seek to expand the religious sector?
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Human rights discourse is the new secular religion
Anthony Julius is seriously confused.
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Somalia: no music on the radio for you
Islamists told all stations to stop broadcasting music because it’s “unIslamic.” All but two submitted.
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Media: where are all the women?
When women put themselves out there, the word “shrill” is applied to them. They are not called strong, they are called strident.
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The Nerds Are on the March
Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks. Be afraid, charlatans.
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Christian Group Wants the Right to Exclude Gays
Group requires members to sign statement of faith; statement forbids “sexually immoral lifestyle”; gays are immoral. See?
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Miami Selectively Censors Bus Ads
A ‘submission to God: Islam’ ad is fine; a ‘Refuge from Islam’ ad is taken down.
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Iran: Mullah Says Women Cause Earthquakes
The slutty bitches make men think about sex, and that causes earthquakes.
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Catholic Clerics Continue Blaming Everyone Else
It’s eroticism on TV and internet porn; it’s lecherous 13-year-olds who seduce poor helpless priests.
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Freedom From Religion Foundation celebrates
All presidents since 1952 have issued proclamations designating the National Day of Prayer each year.
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Archbishops and idiocy
“Good terminal care can usually achieve adequate pain control.” That’s nice, but the issue is what to do when it can’t.
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Eric MacDonald et al. debate ‘whose death is it?’
Also Sholom Glouberman, Jose Pereira, and Margaret Somerville.
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What the former archbishop really wants
The Christian conscience is so precious, virtuous and superior that it must trump all others.
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Theist Says: Arrest Richard Dawkins!
Because after all, Pol Pot was an atheist, so bust Dawkins.
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UK: Christians Threaten ‘Civil Unrest’
Carey and others demand the ‘right’ to discriminate against gays in the name of ‘religious freedom.’