Small group of singing supporters of the MDC marched through the city while the flyers clouded the horizon.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Majority of Indonesians Want Sharia
But ‘only’ 45% said women should be forced to wear hijab. Oh is that all!
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Gabfests About Islam and the West
Speaker after speaker called for some formal, internationally agreed restriction on defamation of religion.
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Talking is Different from Capitulation
Churchill did not object to Chamberlain meeting Hitler in 1938, he objected to giving the Nazis Czechoslovakia.
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Blackwater’s Deep Reverence for Islam
3 widows of US soldiers are suing over plane crash in Afghanistan. So – call for Sharia!
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Race and Patriotism as a Wedge Strategy
‘Clinton has manipulated ideas about race, but Obama has not manipulated similar ideas about gender.’
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Malaysia: Islamists Tell Women What to Do
No loud shoes. Segregated seating at the movies. Hijab.
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Jeb Bush Wants More, Worse Religious Schools
Bush has engineered two initiatives that would dilute language requiring a quality public school system.
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Regulating the ‘Professions’ of Alt Medicine
The main body of the report produced for the Government does not contain the word ‘placebo.’
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David Colquhoun on the Alt Med Report
The report shows an execrable ability to assess evidence, and it advocates degrees in antiscience.
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Regulation is Recognition
The greatest risk to the health of the NHS is approaching: the march of the alternative health industry.
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School Investigated ‘Abuse’ Based on Psychic
Psychic said a child whose name began with V was being molested; school called Victoria’s mother.
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Theodore Dalrymple Reviews Julian Baggini
Dalrymple is not sure that the intellectually sophisticated and critical are the most balanced complainants.
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What Darwin and Wallace Thought
150 years ago next week, a notion, more radical even than Marx’s, was set loose on the world.
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Ziauddin Sardar on New Koran Translation
Words things in a nicer way than the Dawood translation did. Also more accurately? Or not?
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UK Government Should Do More to Stop FGM
Ann Clwyd calls it an absolute disgrace that no one has been prosecuted under the new regulations.
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Secularism Meets Islamism on Big Brother
“This is nothing to do with religion!” “Tell it to Allah!”
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Poland: Priest Blocked Rape Victim’s Abortion
Priest, anti-abortion campaigners, doctors gang up on 14-year-old who doesn’t want a baby.
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Pew Survey Shows US Religious Credulity [link fixed]
Believe ‘many religions can lead to eternal life.’ All at the same time, but in different hats.
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Tsvangirai Pulls Out of Election
MDC says some 86 supporters have been killed and 200,000 forced from their homes by Zanu-PF militias.