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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Blackford on the Idiocy of ‘Defamation of Religion’
It is in the public interest that the truth and credibility of various religions be tested continually.
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Pakistan Agrees to Sharia in Swat Region
All un-Islamic laws against the Koran would be subject to cancellation and considered null and void.
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‘Will Sharia Bring Order to Swat?’
‘Many people in Swat are jubilant at the news.’
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Harun Yahya: Darwinism the Root of Terrorism
There would be no materialism without Darwinism. Islam is a religion of peace and love.
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Hey, Indulgences Are Back!
There is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per day. Damn, that seems harsh.
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Swat Government Agrees to Impose Sharia
So Taliban, having won, agrees to ten day cease fire.
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Russell Blackford in Support of Johann Hari
If we allow laws that prevent us criticising religion, we have given away the entire Enlightenment project.
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Buffalo Man Charged With Beheading His Wife
Muzzammil Hassan is CEO of Bridges TV, founded to ‘portray Muslims in a more positive light.’
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FGM in Somalia
Woman refuses infibulation for her daughters, husband leaves, daughters are bullied and called dirty.
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The Men in the Funny Costumes Are Displeased
Natural selection depends on a majority always missing the point. Then we kill and eat them.
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Enfeebled Free Speech Benefits the Powerful
Offence was now felt not only by the embodied person but on behalf of a deity strong enough not to worry.
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Muslim Women Activists Speak in Kuala Lumpur
Muslim women who demand justice are told that ‘God’s law’ is not open for negotiation or change.
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Crash Victim Fought for Justice in Rwanda
Alison Des Forges was one of the world’s foremost experts on the Rwandan genocide.
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Jesus and Mo Work on Their Bus Slogan
It nees to be both philosophically compelling and witty. Success!
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Jesus and Mo on Heaven and Hell
Mo’s heaven is boringly fruit-centered, but the hell is good – neck chains, dissolving bowels…
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Hamburg Man Convicted of ‘Honor’ Killing of Sister
Said he objected to the schoolgirl’s way of life, clothes, attempts to escape her family.
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Rwanda Genocide Court Stunned at Loss of Des Forges
‘Among the first to highlight the ethnic tensions that led to the genocide…Alison did everything humanly possible to save people.’
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George Packer on Alison Des Forges
Anything Des Forges did that was connected with Rwanda, she did with all her might.
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Bunglawala on the Fatwa and Geert Wilders
Calls to ban Rushdie’s book were wrong; could Wilders be another stick to beat Muslims with?