New guidance is being published urging schools to identify signs of forced marriages ahead of the holidays.
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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Sarah Palin as ‘Diva’ and ‘Whack Job’
A public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded.
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Jesus and Mo on Science-Religion Compatibility
Dudes it’s so totally easy.
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Moses Just Loves the Burqa
Mo on the other hand suddenly finds his getting stuffy.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
‘I wanted people to never forget what a stoning really is.’ It’s not just one rock and it’s over.
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Johann Hari on ‘Does God Hate Women?’
After all the arguments for subordinating women have been shown to be self-serving lies, what are misogynists left with?
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Zeinab Huq on Sharia Up Close and Personal
Whatever the protestations of its fans, this system of law does not favour women.
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Madeleine Bunting on Science and Religion
No actually it turns out to be about ‘the New Atheists’ again. And ‘Ditchkins.’ Deep stuff.
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India: Gay Sex Decriminalized
The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which calls a same-sex relationship an ‘unnatural offence.’
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India: Activists Welcome Delhi Court Ruling
‘Families who use this section to scare their children and get them married forcibly won’t be able to do so.’
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Andrew Brown on How to Think About Sharia
‘Perhaps the autonomous adult is an idealisation, useful for some purposes, but misleading for others.’
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Grayling on Clerical Cruelty and Dogmatism
The question of what archbishops and rabbis do to subvert the ethical maturation of humankind has to be addressed.
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Bunglawala Says Sharia Courts Are Fine
Commenters point out the problem of inequality that Bugnlawala forgot to mention.
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Interview: Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk
Tired of religious people’s published musings about the struggle to find god? ’50 Voices of Disbelief’ can help.
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No Tent for God, No Sleeping Bag, No Smores
Plenty of games of ‘Find the unicorn’ though.
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Pope Delays Encyclical Because His Latin is Rusty
This encyclical will be the first written with the help of Google.
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Religious Bullies Try to Block Euthanasia Law
Archbishops of C and W and Chief Rabbi join to prevent people from ending terminal suffering.
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Full Text of ABC’s Wicked Letter
Hospices are better, he says.
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Male Victims of Forced Marriage
Dozens of men in NE England have contacted Karma Nirvana, which will open a new centre for both sexes.
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Newsweek Suggests 50 Books for Our Time
Including Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True; also Persepolis, Midnight’s Children.