Man who founded tv station to fight Muslim stereotypes is charged with decapitating his wife.
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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Cleric Says Islam Abhors Domestic Violence
‘We categorically denounce it in all forms.’ Sura 4:34 not mentioned.
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Salil Tripathi on Disturbing the Universe
The Satanic Verses destabilizes the moral certainties of a universe set in stone; it celebrates imagination.
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A Unique Psychic Force
‘It is a proven scientific fact that thinking about something often causes it to happen. Some call this quantum physics.’
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Richard Wilson on Alison Des Forges
A personal connection.
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Maryam Namazie on Sharia
Sharia is why so many of us have fled and are fleeing Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Baggini on Hume on Faith or Reason
Faith does not simply plug a gap where reason fears to tread; it actively goes against all that reason tells us.
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Graun: Local ‘Hero’ Brings Sharia to Swat
Sufi Mohammad is not quite as bad as Fazlullah, oh hooray.
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March for ‘Peace’ in Mingora
Thousands of men marched for peace in Swat, led by the cleric who signed a deal to enforce Sharia.
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Taliban and Fazlullah Stalk Swat Valley
Little reason to hope Fazlullah and Taliban will be satisfied with agreement for limited application of sharia.
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Index on Censorship: India’s Culture of Grievance
Under S 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code, it is an offence to outrage anyone’s religious sensibilities.
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Vatican’s UN Presence Endangers Freedom
Vatican has some state privileges such as voting at UN conferences. No other religious body has that status.
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Archbish Says Public Agrees With Him on Sharia
However critics claim the Archbishop’s comments have made Muslim women worse off.
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Asylum for Pegah Emambakhsh
After a campaign by gay rights groups and MPs the Home Secretary agreed to reconsider her case.
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Sharia in Malakand
‘This is definitely a surrender,’ said Khadim Hussain of Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy.
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Boy Struck by Lightning Becomes Healer
Magic stone cures depression.
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Westboro Baptist Church Arrives in UK
Plans to picket sixth form college in Basingstoke for not hating fags.
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Obama Sends Churchill Bust Back to UK
They said he could keep it another four years, but he said no thanks.
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An Indian Blogger on Hari and Freedom of Speech
Statesman editors probably did not realize India’s secular Constitution is just a sham.
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Valentine’s Day: Shiv Sena Men Attack Couples
Bullies blackened the faces of many couples ‘behaving inappropriately’ in Aurangabad and Bijnaur.