Does the president think that the veil and the burqa are also freely chosen fashion statements?… Read the rest
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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MHRA Licences Homeopathic ‘Therapy’ 
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pills are labelled ‘a homoeopathic medicinal product used with the homoeopathic tradition.’… Read the rest
Blair Begins ‘School Faith Scheme’
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face To Faith project’ does God with a vengeance.… Read the rest
Blair Thinks ‘Religious Literacy’ Will Help
Jun 10th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dialogue, different faiths, understanding, peace, Islamophobia, communities, deeper, beliefs.… Read the rest
Man Jailed for ‘Honour’ Killing of Sister
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hasibullah Sadiqi gunned down his sister Khatera and her fiancé Feroz Mangal.… Read the rest
Save the Salinger Archives
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It seems possible he could be typing out the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit over and over again.… Read the rest
Somalia: al-Shabab Destroying Graves
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sufi Muslims embrace music, dancing and meditation and are appalled at desecration of graves.… Read the rest
Islamist ‘Justice’ in Kismayo
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hundreds of people flocked to Freedom Park to see a man’s hand chopped off.… Read the rest
Align Those Chakras
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A visit to the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival: strapped in for some top-shelf bullshit.… Read the rest
BNP Leader Pelted With Eggs
Jun 9th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Number of people voting BNP went up slightly, with the party benefitting from collapse in Labour vote. … Read the rest
Muriel Gray on Obama’s Speech
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Surely the boldest way forward is to tell the uncomfortable truth instead of obsequious fawning. … Read the rest
OIC to Special Rapporteur: Watch Your Mouth
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He said restrictions on free speech should never be used to protect beliefs, including religious ones. Horrors!… Read the rest
Catholic Church Lectures Gays on Child Abuse
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Well they are the experts.… Read the rest
Bullying the Special Rapporteur
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The SR for the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression must shut up or else.… Read the rest
Pope Briefed on Ryan Report
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Listened carefully to what archbishop and cardinal said. Suggested ‘deep soul-searching.’… Read the rest
Catholic Theologian Reacts to Ryan Report
Jun 8th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Suggested part of the problem came from the church’s failure to develop a self-critical, thinking Christianity.… Read the rest
Obama in Cairo: The Religionizing of Politics
Jun 7th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Those who live in Muslim-majority countries seem not to be citizens or Asians or Arabs or Africans but simply ‘Muslims.’… Read the rest
It’s Men Who Hate Women, Not God
Jun 7th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Yes…the title is metaphoric.… Read the rest
Virtual Lecture at Second Life on Saturday
Jun 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Stephen Law presenting a lecture and Q&A about The War for Children’s Minds at The Open Habitat Project.… Read the rest
Homeopathy Killed a Baby
Jun 6th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Her parents treated her eczema with homeopathic ‘remedies’ instead of ‘conventional’ medicine. … Read the rest
