It’s not Spellberg’s fault, it’s Random House that made the decision.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Professor’s Helpful Warning
Faegheh Shirazi, of UT’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, understands decision not to publish.
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Child Starved to Death for not Saying ‘Amen’
Members of ‘Mind Ministries’ viewed the child, age 21 months, as a ‘demon.’
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Mick Hume on Pre-emptive Grovelling
Fearful self-censorship in the name of liberal values is worth intellectual rioting.
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Debating Democracy Promotion in China
Daniel Bell and Michael Walzer on whether liberalization and democracy should be imported.
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HRW Urges: Press Zimbabwe to End Abuses
HRW report ‘They Beat Me like a Dog’ describes killings, beatings and arbitrary arrests by ZANU-PF.
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Solidarity Against Western Colonialism
Feminists who think hijab is oppressive to women want to bomb them into submission. Yee-ha.
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Fruitlessly Mocking Nutriwoo
The newspapers are so overrun with food pseudoscience there’s no point in documenting it any more.
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Blame Everyone but Yourselves
Food has become the bollocks du jour, with no regard for accuracy whatsoever.
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BBC on Jewel of Medina
Spellberg said she felt it was her duty to warn the press of the novel’s potential to provoke anger.
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Threats of Violence Force Conference to Close
Kuala Lumpur: ‘protesters’ say forum on conversion would undermine Islam, threaten to storm building.
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Malaysian Court Rejects Bid to Leave Islam
Appellant not legally recognized because her Chinese name no longer existed after conversion to Islam
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Court Rejects Convert’s Renunciation of Islam
Lim sought ruling that she had the right to renounce Islam under Article 11 of the Malaysian Constitution.
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Total Politics Interviews Johann Hari
We’re all born involved in the political world, whether we like it or not.
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Denise Spellberg Explains She is an Expert
‘I felt it was my professional duty to warn the press of the novel’s potential to provoke anger among some Muslims.’
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‘Quite Deliberately Provocative’ Says Spellberg
Spellberg told the Guardian she is receiving hate mail accusing her of acting as a censor for Muslim jihadis.
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NPR Visits Camp Inquiry
If skeptics are in the majority at Camp Inquiry, they’re often alone in their schools and neighborhoods.
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New Sharia Marriage Contract in UK
‘A married Muslim couple will now have equal rights.’
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Dawkins Takes Issue With Libby Purves
‘Unjust, to the point of outright mendacity.’
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Sherry Jones Never Expected a Fatwa
Ballantine hoped academic blurb would show the novel wasn’t just fluffy romance. Oh well.