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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Malaysian Woman Allowed to Leave Islam
That’s against the law in Malaysia, but the judge decided she had never actually converted.
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MF Husain’s Work Ruled Not Obscene
Hindu nationalist groups accused him of ‘hurting their religious sentiments.’
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Bush Cites God in Defending War Actions
His policies were predicated on the belief that ‘every human being bears the image of our maker.’
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Undercover Atheist Joins Hagee’s Church
Christian Zionism aims to align America with Israel so as to ‘hurry God up’ with Armageddon
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Girls’ School Burnt Down in Swat District
Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it on Sunday.
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Multifaithism is Bad for Women
The multicultural approach harms women; it focuses on relations between groups, rather than within them.
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Pragna Patel on the Problem with Multifaithism
At the heart of all fundamentalist movements is support for the patriarchal family.
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The Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right
Hayek is not as rational and irrefutable as the right would have it. He is a romantic, a serious deficit in a social theorist.
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Sleeper on Wieseltier on Amis
Wieseltier’s review is preening and melodramatic, an opera bouffe of a literary attack.
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Terry Sanderson on a Clash of Rights
Those of gay people and those of religious people who want to discriminate against them.
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Jesus and Mo Ponder the FLDS
Mo is shocked, shocked.
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How Forced Marriage Works
She loved her parents, they didn’t beat her, but she gave in to the incessant pleadings.
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Women’s Rights versus Religious Liberty
They are in tension.
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Parvin Ardalan Gets 2 Years Suspended Sentence
For a demo demanding equal rights for women on divorce, inheritance and child custody.
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Nussbaum on Philosophy and Shakespeare
Also psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. Hmm.
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Nick Bostrom Looks for the Great Filter
Perhaps the Great Filter is a destructive tendency common to virtually all technological civilizations.
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Carl Zimmer on Gene Networks
The more scientists know about them, the more there is to find out.
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Pretend Populists
Bogus ‘anti-elitism’ is a weapon against liberal Democrats. How does that work?
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NCSE’s ‘Expelled Exposed’
Not a documentary; anti-science propaganda to create the appearance of controversy where there is none.