Or is it.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Paris Welcomes Taslima Nasreen
Nasreen, under threat of death from Islamists who accuse her of blasphemy, will live in Paris.
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The Mullahs Are Afraid of Shirin Ebadi
She has been exposing government violations of human rights and defending rights activists.
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For Kurdish Girls: Genital Mutilation
‘We don’t know why we do it, but we will never stop because Islam and our elders require it.’
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WSJ Exonerates Community Reinvestment Act
The 1977 CRA wasn’t the cause, or even a major contributor, to the subprime mortgage debacle.
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You’ve Finished the Quran: Time for Suicide Attack
In the madrassa, Shakirullah memorized the Quran in Arabic; he relied solely on the mullahs’ interpretations.
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Girl Molester Considers Himself ‘the Son of God’
Bent, 67, admitted lying naked with two girls but said any touching was an act of religious healing.
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US: Majority Thinks Religion Can Fix Everything
‘Only’ 53 percent say religion ‘can answer all or most of today’s problems.’ Only?
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At Least It’s an Ethos
Language skills are valuable yet political and economic conditions put ‘anti-ideological’ pressure on universities.
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‘Bullying Atheism’ is a Threat to Public Debate
Believers are terrified they will be whipped and stripped of all their possessions and imprisoned.
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Gambia: Missionaries Sentenced to Year in Prison
Magistrate found the offences ‘very shocking’; no respect for the country, the government, the president.
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Mukoko and Others to Remain in Jail
The regime hopes their scars will heal before the trial.
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A Challenge to the Dutch Version of Tolerance
‘The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance.’
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Half of Catholic Adoption Agencies Obey Law
And other half refuse.
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Vatican Declares Itself Not Subject to Italian Laws
One day laws could legalize euthanasia or civil unions between homosexuals; horrors.
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Dieudonné Gives Award to Holocaust Denier
French comedian, known for anti-Semitic ‘jokes,’ gave the award for ‘insolence’ to Robert Faurisson.
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Gordon Brown Opposes Assisted Dying
Told Murphy O’Connor it was not for him to create laws to ‘put pressure on people to end their lives.’
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Review of Grayling’s The Choice of Hercules
Essays on what constitutes the good life, and whether both pleasure and duty have something to teach us.
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The Year in Books
Ted Hughes; the plot to murder Orhan Pamuk; Midnight’s Children; The Jewel of Medina…
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Dacey and Koproske on Islam and Human Rights
There is now an alternative human rights system, layered with exceptions, omissions, and caveats.