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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Rick Warren was only joking
When he tweeted “If they’re cute, it’s flirting. If they’re ugly, it’s harassment.” Amen.
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Woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan
Intisar Sharif Abdalla is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son.
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Dolan authorized payments to rapist priests
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of NY authorized payments of up to $20k to sexually abusive priests as an incentive to leave priesthood when he was archbish of Milwaukee.
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Tarek Fatah and Irshad Manji talk about multiculturalism
The two authors discuss culture and racism, what values Western society has allowed for modern society, and the practice of democracy.
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160 girls poisoned at Afghan school
Last week, more than 120 girls and three teachers were admitted to a hospital after a similar suspected poisoning.
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Witch-hunts: The darkness that won’t go away
Children who are accused of being witches by their families are often chased out of their homes. These abandoned children can fall prey to child trafficking and abuse.
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The angel Jibril speaks
And Jesus doesn’t get to choose what’s for dinner.
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Sentenced to death for singing and dancing at a wedding
“The local clerics issued a decree to kill all four women and two men shown in the video,” district police officer Abdul Majeed Afridi said.
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World Health Assembly discusses child marriage
The WHO finds that complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death in girls aged 15-19 in the developing world.
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Egypt: women’s rights are shrinking day by day
Men shout at hijabless women, “Just you wait, those who will cover you up and make you stay at home are coming, and then there will no more of this lewdness.”
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Opponents of this crop trial are blind to the food crisis
Preventing experiments such as this, where there is clearly a public benefit if it works, will do nothing to solve the coming food crisis of the 21st century.
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US states that ban atheists from holding public office
Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. “No religious test…other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”!
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Italy: bishops ‘not obliged’ to report sexual abuse to police
The Italian Bishop’s Conference (CIE) has issued guidelines on child protection that inform its bishops that they are ‘not obliged to report illicit facts’ of child abuse to the police.
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Morocco: more than 30,000 children employed as servants
The “little maids” are for the most part “badly paid and submitted to physical and economic violence.”
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Woman convicted in faith-healing death of son
In relying on prayer to heal her diabetic son, Grady, a member of the Church of the Firstborn, told police, “I didn’t want to be weak in my faith and disappoint God.”
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David Gorski on “Miracle Mineral Solution” and autism
It’s bleach. People give it to children with autism. Bleach.
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Catcalls, whistles, groping: sexual harassment in London
Nearly half of young women in London were sexually harassed in public last year, with many forced to endure unwanted male attention on buses and trains, a new study shows.
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Mali Tuareg and Islamist rebels agree on Islamist state
The Islamist group Ansar Dine, which has ties to al-Qaeda, has already begun to impose Sharia in towns such as Timbuktu.
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Vatican publishes rules for apparitions of Mary
Because there are totally rules about it.
