Does the president think that the veil and the burqa are also freely chosen fashion statements?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
-
MHRA Licences Homeopathic ‘Therapy’
Pills are labelled ‘a homoeopathic medicinal product used with the homoeopathic tradition.’
-
Blair Begins ‘School Faith Scheme’
‘Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face To Faith project’ does God with a vengeance.
-
Blair Thinks ‘Religious Literacy’ Will Help
Dialogue, different faiths, understanding, peace, Islamophobia, communities, deeper, beliefs.
-
Man Jailed for ‘Honour’ Killing of Sister
Hasibullah Sadiqi gunned down his sister Khatera and her fiancé Feroz Mangal.
-
Save the Salinger Archives
It seems possible he could be typing out the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit over and over again.
-
Somalia: al-Shabab Destroying Graves
Sufi Muslims embrace music, dancing and meditation and are appalled at desecration of graves.
-
Islamist ‘Justice’ in Kismayo
Hundreds of people flocked to Freedom Park to see a man’s hand chopped off.
-
Align Those Chakras
A visit to the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival: strapped in for some top-shelf bullshit.
-
BNP Leader Pelted With Eggs
Number of people voting BNP went up slightly, with the party benefitting from collapse in Labour vote.
-
Muriel Gray on Obama’s Speech
Surely the boldest way forward is to tell the uncomfortable truth instead of obsequious fawning.
-
OIC to Special Rapporteur: Watch Your Mouth
He said restrictions on free speech should never be used to protect beliefs, including religious ones. Horrors!
-
Catholic Church Lectures Gays on Child Abuse
Well they are the experts.
-
Bullying the Special Rapporteur
The SR for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression must shut up or else.
-
Pope Briefed on Ryan Report
Listened carefully to what archbishop and cardinal said. Suggested ‘deep soul-searching.’
-
Catholic Theologian Reacts to Ryan Report
Suggested part of the problem came from the church’s failure to develop a self-critical, thinking Christianity.
-
Obama in Cairo: The Religionizing of Politics
Those who live in Muslim-majority countries seem not to be citizens or Asians or Arabs or Africans but simply ‘Muslims.’
-
It’s Men Who Hate Women, Not God
Yes…the title is metaphoric.
-
Virtual Lecture at Second Life on Saturday
Stephen Law presenting a lecture and Q&A about The War for Children’s Minds at The Open Habitat Project.
-
Homeopathy Killed a Baby
Her parents treated her eczema with homeopathic ‘remedies’ instead of ‘conventional’ medicine.