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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Karzai Says He Will Review Family Law
If there is anything in contradiction with Shariah, he will take action in close consultation with clerics.
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Arab Liberals Denounce Islamist Al-Nafisi
Islamist membership leads to deepening of the abyss of hatred for others – even if this member holds 50 doctorates.
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Media Ignore UN Anti-blasphemy Resolutions
Surely this is a story worth covering.
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The Joy of Scanning the Scientific Literature
A barrage of studies that challenge your preconceptions, demonstrating the weakness of intuition.
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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.’
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Ultra-Orthodox Papers Edit Women Out
Two ultra-Orthodox newspapers altered photo of Israel’s cabinet; one replaced the two women with men.
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Chaudhry Calls For Probe of Girl’s Flogging
Chief Justice Chaudhry called the action a cruel violation of fundamental rights; Gilani calls it shameful.
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A Crappy Week for Women’s Rights
Erased in Israel, flogged in Pakistan, ground into the dirt in Afghanistan.
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Robert Lambert is Wrong
Islamists love to employ the idioms of ‘social justice’ and ‘moral obligation’ when confronting their enemies.
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MCB’s Daud Abdullah Sues Hazel Blears
They disagree over certain clauses of the Istanbul Declaration.
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Jeremy Paxman Confronted Daud Abdullah
Or rather, he didn’t.
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Shiraz Maher on UK’s ‘New’ Counterterror Policy
Is it right that liberal societies should endorse those whose values we would otherwise find abhorrent?
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Guardian Stands Up for ‘Mainstream Islamists’
‘British Islamists find themselves under constant scrutiny in Britain from Islamophobes.’
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Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban
Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled a 1998 law limiting marriage to a woman and a man unconstitutional.
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Iowa Supreme Court Unconvinced by ‘Experts’
CFI legal department filed amicus brief defending lower court’s exclusion of ‘expert’ opinions by conservative religionists.
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Voices Against Shariah Apologists
Resist the Taliban, Shariah Courts and violence against women in Pakistan.
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No Actually Let’s Not Do God
There is something crass and nasty as well as vulgar in Blair’s quantitative triumphalism.
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The Finest Tradition of Anglican Humbug
Compromise depends on people’s willingness not to push their own convictions too far.
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The Taliban v the Rights of Women and Girls
Human rights are not a sideshow. They are the whole game.
