A group dedicated to creating an Islamist dictatorship meets every weekend in Regent’s Park mosque.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Johann Hari Talks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
She has no time for what she sees as the ignorant, woolly Islam-is-peace message of Western liberals.
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Voices of Disbelief Off to the Publishers
Essays from 52 atheists including Baggini, Clark, Dacey, Grayling, Namazie, Edis, Law, Randi, Singer, Tatchell, Stenger.
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Nicholas Kristof on Acid Attacks on Women
Acid attacks are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia.
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Cincinnati Zoo Teams With Creationist Museum
PZ Myers urges everyone to contact the zoo; write to their education, marketing and PR departments.
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Johann Hari on Hip-hop Homophobia
A lot of stars are enraged closet-cases.
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Celebrity Terrorism
Mass murder in crowded railway stations and restaurants is easy, and it makes you famous.
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Five Survivors
‘I crouched along with my customers in the restaurant shaking in fear.’
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Kill Until the Last Breath
The Mumbai attacks were intended to kill 5,000 people.
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Mumbai Doctors Say Victims Were Tortured
‘It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details.’
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Bush Races to Prevent Worker Safety
New rule will make it much harder to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals on the job.
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UN Reports Taliban is Stockpiling Opium
In an effort to support prices and preserve a major source of financing for the insurgency.
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Bush Busy in Last Few Weeks in Office
Bush’s last-minute rules are focused, like a laser, on destroying US environmental standards.
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Bush Moves May Endanger Endangered Species
Proposed loosening controls on factory farm waste and letting power plants operate near national parks.
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Religious Riots Kill Hundreds in Nigeria
In Plateau State, Christians are regarded as being indigenous and Hausa-speaking Muslims the settlers.
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At Least 172 Dead in Mumbai
The gunmen killed everyone they could. The hostages were a sick joke, they were killed at the beginning.
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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death
Wal-Mart has successfully resisted unionization, but not crowds of shoppers.
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Suketu Mehta Asks: Why Do They Hate Mumbai?
‘Hindu and Muslim demagogues want the mobs to come out again in the streets, and slaughter one another in the name of God.’
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Malaysian Jailed for Torturing Indonesian Maid
Yim Pek Ha scalded Nirmala Bonat with boiling water and burned her with an iron for making mistakes.
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Having a ‘Costless’ Conscience
Delivering the people of Afghanistan back to the Taliban might not be a great outcome.