Christian radio station rebukes costumes at school; cites ‘traditional family values’ and ‘Biblical values.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Wafa Sultan Forced Into Hiding
Sultan joins a growing list of public critics of radical Islam facing death threats.
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Standing Idly By While Rights Are Undermined
By seeking to criminalize free speech, the resolution stands in breach of the UDHR.
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Hitchens on Belief in Belief
Is it not possible that the missionaries of ‘faith’ regard the objects of their charity as mere raw material?
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Mass Rescue at Fundamentalist Compound
Authorities remove more than 220 women and children from polygamous Mormon ranch in Texas.
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Convenient Untruths
Humans have a remarkable ability to tune out facts that don’t support pre-existing beliefs.
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Human Rights and Free Speech Rights
A group of students filed a complaint against Maclean’s for a piece they feel violated their human rights.
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Matthew Parris Corrects Blair’s Homework
Define your terms. What’s your evidence for this? How do you square this with para 2? What does this mean?
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‘Psychics’ Fight New Consumer Laws
Promises to raise the dead, secure good fortune or heal via laying on of hands all at risk of legal action.
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Grayling on ‘Explaining Religion’
The concept of religiosity will need clarification before a computational model of its dynamics is possible.
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Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Report
2007 proved to be one of the worst years for human rights in Pakistan’s history
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Two Men Get Months in Prison for Killing Woman
Tribunal reduced the murder charge to a misdemeanour: defendant was defending ‘family honour.’
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Unprecedented April 1 Victory for Rationalism
Catholic priests in Gateshead will be required to read out a disclaimer prior to Communion.
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‘Abortion’ Search Term Blocked on Website
Under Bush policy, USAID denies funding to NGOs that promote abortion.
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Blair Says How Useful Religion Is
‘Faith is reduced to a system of strange convictions.’ But without strange convictions, what is ‘faith’?
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Zadie Smith the Dream, Naipaul the Nightmare
For a successful immigrant writer to take the positions he did was seen as a special kind of treason.
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Steinbeck’s Reputation
Required reading in US schools, ignored everywhere else.
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Khadim Hussain on the Tribal Areas [scroll down]
The Sharia Nizam-i-Adl Regulation 2008 would make the courts subservient to the clerics.
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Farish Noor on ‘Heftier Penalties’ in Malaysia
Let the cameras of the international media film Malaysians being whipped by the morality police.
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Austin Dacey Reviews Charles Taylor
There are plenty of naturalistic explanations for the transcendent urge.