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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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School Bombers Say Girls Should Stay Home
Bombers have destroyed over 70 state-run schools in NWFP, affecting more than 17,000 students.
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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.
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Shahed Amanullah Speaks Up for Free Speech
No one has the right not to be offended, nor to live without the uncomfortable opinions of others.
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Austin Statesman on Denise Spellberg
Shahed Amanullah partly shares Spellberg’s concerns but opposes the idea of not publishing the book.
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Alberta HRCC Rejects Motoons Complaint
Human rights and citizenship commission’s Gundara wrote the cartoons are very bad but not gratuitous.
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Calvinists Block Sunday Ferry Service
Not content to stay off ferries themselves, they must force everyone else to stay home too.
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Ezra Levant on Needing Permission to Publish
Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities hijacked a secular government agency to prosecute ‘blasphemy.’
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Musharraf Faces Impeachment Bid
Sharif and Zardari promise to restore judges sacked by Musharraf if impeachment succeeds.
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Necla Kelek on Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan’s initiative against forced marriage is an attempt to contain and advise Muslim girls in an Islamic manner.
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All Devout Muslims, All Face Same Dilemma
Whether to earn money working for haram Westerners and get an education, or be pure and uneducated.
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Dawkins Evangelical Atheist
Also celebrity fundamentalist atheist. Yak yak.
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Geert Wilders on The Choice [audio]
From a heavily guarded studio.
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Random House Cancels Aisha Novel
Academic tells friend ‘the novel “made fun of Muslims and their history,” asks him to warn Muslims.
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Rosie Bell on the LRB and Verso’s List
Voice of Hezbollah; The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Holocaust Industry.
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Using the UN to Stifle Free Speech
OIC aims to empower governments around the world to punish anyone who ‘defames’ Islam.
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Southall Black Sisters Won Its Challenge
‘Secular spaces are literally being squeezed out of minority communities.’
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More on ‘Defamation of Religion’
With the kind of global blasphemy laws in this resolution, anybody could sue for hurt feelings.
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Iran Suspends Execution by Stoning
The stones used must be big enough to cause pain, but not to kill immediately.
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Secularism and Equality
Special exemptions for religion are the opposite of equality before the law.