Mixing with men, or men watching her run or fall down or laugh or cry or quarrel with another female athlete, or mount a horse, or practice gymnastics or wrestling.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Father, brother detained on charges of beating woman
They were released on bail on July 18, and on July 21 she was dead. What a coincidence.
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Russia: police raid sect living underground
Ages 1 to 17, the children rarely saw the light of day and had never left the property, attended school or been seen by a doctor, officials said.
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Talk of the Nation discusses harassment in gaming
“These are less and less isolated incidents.”
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Two Saudi women compete in the Olympics
But Saudi Arabia forces them to dress “in compliance with Sharia.”
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Men call Wojdan Shaherkani things on Twitter
“You do not represent the chaste Muslim woman,” tweeted Mohammed al-Barrak, a lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca.
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Russians uncomfortable with activist women
A case that should pivot on a specific legal question (“Does a violation of church protocol rise to the level of religious hatred?”) instead hangs entirely on emotions.
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Robert Hughes 1938-2012
You didn’t need to know much about painting to enjoy the elegance, wit and pugnacity of Hughes’ writing.
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Mali Islamists tell people to lump it
“People must accept that we will impose Sharia whether they like it or not,” a spokesman said.
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Florida preacher “heals” people by kicking them
In one interview, Bentley claims that the “Holy Spirit” told him to kick an ill elderly woman in the face with his biker boot.
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NASA safely lands Mars rover Curiosity
The spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars.
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Report on constitutions of majority-Muslim countries
Approximately 44% of the world’s Muslim population live in 23 majority Muslim
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Two historians check the work of Orlando Figes
“Historians are obliged to be especially meticulous in using generally inaccessible archive materials, but Figes cannot be fully trusted even with open sources.”
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UK: schools deny girls HPV vax on religious grounds
“Pupils follow strict Christian principles, marry within their own community and do not practise sex outside marriage.”
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Lawyer kills his sister for marrying a man
It was a love match, without the family’s permission, so bang, she’s dead.
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Colombia: acid attacks on women on the rise
“The violence here may be different, but it emanates from the same place. This
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Pakistan: cops force couple to parade naked in public
The man had reportedly been holding drink and dance parties during Ramadan.
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Sharia4Belgium says Peeters “dresses like a whore”
It’s not that men are harassing her, it’s that she is goading men.
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Jesus and Mo protest the Colorado shootings
In their own way.
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Somalia: famous comedian murdered
Abdi Jeylani Marshale used to make people laugh by impersonating Islamist fighters. He was threatened by al-Shabab last year.