Who’s next? Mugabe? Maulana Fazlullah? Laurent Nkunda? Warren Jeffs?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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ZLHR on Abductees in Zimbabwe
The abductees were removed from the prison to a secret location in a minibus with South African plates.
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Mugabe Regime is in Contempt of Court
Mugabe’s regime has ‘no intention’ of releasing Mukoko and the other opposition figures.
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Mukoko Being Held in Notorious Prison
Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says Mukoko is in Chikurubi prison without access to lawyers.
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Islam Online on Taliban Ban on Girls in School
Says other Taliban groups reject the ban, believe girls have equal rights to education.
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Ban Will Keep 40,000 Girls from School in Swat
The Taliban have blown up more than 100 girls’ schools in Swat in the past 14 months.
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Darwin Commemorations Celebrate Free Inquiry
Darwin’s ideas remain startling in their implications for prescientific modes of thinking.
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Taliban Also Forbids Polio Vaccs; Polio on Rise
‘Female education is against Islamic teachings and spreads vulgarity in society,’ says Shah Dauran.
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Taliban ‘Ban’ Female Education in Swat District
Teacher says they have also ordered women not to visit markets. They kill anyone who disobeys.
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Mukoko, Other Activists Remanded to Hospital
Mukoko is among a list of 32 human rights and MDC activists abducted by state security agents..
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Mukoko and Other Activists Missing Again
The police have refused to comply with the court order that Mukoko be taken to a hospital.
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Fears for Safety of Zimbabwean Activists
Judge ordered Mukoko and her co-accused to be sent to hospital but police ignored the order.
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Scruton Speaks Up for Midgley
Is dismayed that she joined ‘the disastrous attack on hunting with hounds’ though.
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Pakistan: Taliban Promise to Kill Girls in School
‘You have until January 15 to stop sending your girls to schools. If you do not pay any heed to this warning, we will kill such girls.’
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Conservative Anglicans Cheer Pope’s Assertions
The Catholic church ‘teaches’ this and that, the pope supports Catholic ‘teaching’; all good.
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Pope is Partly Right
Biology helps to shape gender; what follows from that is another issue.
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The Pope Takes the Low Road
Much of organised Christianity is powerful only when it is sanctioning the persecution of individuals.
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Rick Warren Whines About ‘Christophobia’
People who disagree with him are doing hate speech, people who agree with him are wrongly accused of hate speech.
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Jestina Mukoko Alive but not Safe
She and other activists appeared in court, charged with trying to overthrow the ‘government.’
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Saddleback Website Removes a Certain Item
‘Someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted as a member.’