Sahgal has devoted her career to exposing rights violations in Britain, South Asia and internationally.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why Did UK Not Ban ‘Bomb Detectors’ Sooner?
The British government imposed an export ban on the devices only after the BBC investigation.
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Reversing Female Genital Mutilation
At least 77,000 women and girls in the UK have been mutilated; around 24,000 girls are at risk.
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Kevin Rudd Rebukes Women Who Don’t Breed
All young women say they can’t, they’re getting a PhD. No really, he said that.
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‘The Muslim Brotherhood is Young at Heart’
Comment is Free sends another love letter to darling Islamism.
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Vicar Insists That Women Are Subordinate
It is ‘an eternal principle that women are physically weaker than men’ so men are the boss.
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Exciting Plans for Hijab Sculpture in Brick Lane
Let’s celebrate the subordination of women!
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Vatican Continues to Blame Irish Bishops
While ignoring its own role.
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Algerian Survivors of Islamist Violence on Sahgal
We, Algerains, thank Gita Sahgal for keeping up with the ideal and mission of human rights.
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Women Against Fundamentalism on Sahgal
We know from global experience that women’s rights are the first to be traded in political settlements.
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‘Faith’ and Science Used to Be Cuddly
Says an Oxford professor of science and religion in a lecture at the Templeton Foundation’s ‘Faraday Institute.’
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Moazzam Begg Calls Gita Sahgal a Fundamentalist
‘A victim can also be a perpetrator,’ Sahgal says. ‘It’s a very simple thought.’
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Amnesty’s Sam Zarifi Backs Gita Sahgal
Amnesty’s decision to suspend Sahgal while continuing its support for Begg has provoked criticism.
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Jerry Coyne on Templetonian Activities
Shaping explanations to fit inconvenient facts.
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54% of Girls in Deprived Areas Getting Pregnant!
Oops, make that 5.4%!
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Hitchens on Amnesty and Gita Sahgal
Amnesty did not defend IRA bombers and Khmer Rouge killers and Gens. Pinochet and Videla.
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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
New evidence that part of the history of radical Islamism was written in Berlin in WW II.
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Pope Scolds Irish Bishops Over Child Abuse
No mention of Ratzinger’s 2001 letter to all Catholic bishops telling them abuse was Church business.
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Freethinker Offers a Caption Competition
First prize is a copy of Does God Hate Women?
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Southall Black Sisters: Secularist of the Year
SBS can provide women with some time away from the all-powerful religious patriarchy.