Humans don’t know everything, but does that mean religion can help? No.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Creeping Islamization in Turkey
‘Most people are more religious these days. They don’t want to eat pork, and they don’t let others produce it either.’
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Saudi Blogger Released From Jail
Fouad al-Farhan had used his website to criticise alleged corruption and call for democratic reforms.
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Army Major Threatens Atheist Soldier
‘People like you are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!’
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Charles Darwin Starts a Blog
‘Well there I was minding my own business in the Cafe of the Natural History Museum…’
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Jesus and Mo Have a Good Moment
Good night boys.
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A Mild Critique of Leon Wieseltier
‘Wieseltier has a meandering, conceptually confused, pointless essay in The New Republic…’
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Seumas Milne is Slightly Confused
He seems to think misogynist homophobic theocrats are right-on and their opponents are wicked.
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Sue Blackmore on Papal Social Calls
Sorry, we’ll be out that day.
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Maajid Nawaz Replies to Ziauddin Sardar
Sardar’s attack on the Quilliam Foundation was ill-informed in a number of ways.
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Zawahiri Accuses Iran of 9/11 Lie
Al-Qaeda did too so carry out the attacks! Iran’s just jealous of Osama! It’s so unfair!
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Egyptian Woman Calls for Strike via Facebook
It was a great success. Israa Abdel Fattah was arrested. New Facebook group ‘Release Israa’ has 3000 members.
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British Muslims for Secular Democracy
Alibhai-Brown: ‘this excessive culture of obedience is stunting the development of Islamic communities.’
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Court Rules Doctors Can Transfuse Infants
The parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses and refused to give their consent.
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Hitchens on Ratzinger
Reporters who can get off their knees might ask the pope if he is conducting his own foreign policy and, if so, in consultation with whom?
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Perpetual Minors
HRW draws on interviews with Saudi women to document the effects of these discriminatory policies.
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Saudi: Male Guardianship Policies Harm Women
‘The Saudi government sacrifices basic human rights to maintain male control over women.’
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Mormon Fashion Statements
The dresses are meant to show modesty and conformity.
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Why Ex-extremists Rather Than Never-extremists?
It’s troubling that former extremists are seen as the only people who know how to deal with extremism.
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Saudi Women Appeal for Legal Freedoms
Women forced to live as children, denied basic rights and confined to a suffocating dependency on men.