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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Birmingham
“Imams and Mullahs ignore our plight, and the community labels women ‘mad’ or ‘heretic’ or ‘loose’ when they stand up for their rights.”
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Telling the Truth About the Armenian Genocide
‘Not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.’
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Taj Hargey Takes on the ‘Muslim McCarthyists’
‘Progressives like me are described as heretics in order to ruin our credibility.’
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Ben Goldacre’s Missing Chapter on Matthias Rath
How Rath and Mbeki combined to block treatment by anti-retroviral drugs in South Africa.
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HRW: Rescind ‘Provider Conscience’ Rule
Freedom of conscience should not be used to trample on others’ rights to life and health.
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Bush’s Lawless Interior Department
Of all the corruption of the Bush years, none is more shocking than the scandals and cronyism at Interior.
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The Right to ‘Defame’ Religions
An insidious blurring of categories compared to the more rigorous language of the UDHR.
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Blair Tuts at Vatican Policy on Gays
So why did he convert?
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Yeshiva Student Strips in Store to Protest…Uh…
Guy gets naked to protest sale of foods Jewish law prohibits on Passover. It doesn’t work.
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Say No to State Religion in Pakistan
Support the campaign to say no to state religion in Pakistan; sign the statement and wish them luck.
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Caspar Melville Replies to Madeleine Bunting
What does she add in her latest strike against the godless heathens? Not much.
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Vermont Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
The Vermont Legislature overrode Gov. Jim Douglas’s veto of a bill allowing gay couples to marry
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Clerics Ban Women Dancers From Festival
Organisers of the festival in Sindh have had to cut the 10-day festival to 3 days because of the threats.
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Texas Freedom Network Looks Ahead
Creationists will use the flawed standards to force publishers into dumbing down instruction on evolution.
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Spain, Universal Jurisdiction, War Crimes
A federal court in Miami recently convicted Chuckie Taylor of torture that occurred in Liberia.
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Kambaksh Hopes While Karzai Flails
Kambaksh wants an Afghanistan where women have the right to live as human beings.
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Bunting Pitches Fit About ‘New’ Atheism
‘The New Atheist debate has drowned out any other kind of conversation about religion.’ Really?
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Bryan Appleyard Reviews Kenan Malik
Splitting the world into ‘communities’, celebrating difference at all costs, is a counterEnlightenment strategy.
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Antarctic Ice Bridge Breaks
‘A strong indication that the warming on the Antarctic is having an effect on yet another ice shelf.’