Laws will give the Iranian government legal grounds to kill any citizens who choose a religion other than Islam.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Section Five: Apostasy, Heresy, and Witchcraft
Article 225-7: Punishment for an Innate Apostate is death. Article 225-8: Punishment for a Parental Apostate is death.
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Paul Gross on Florida’s New Science Standards
The compromise is a sop to voters who think some other way of knowing is equal or superior to science.
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Tom Flynn: Why the A Word Won’t Go Away
Mainstreamers have powerfully negative, largely noncognitive responses to atheism.
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Cultural Sensitivity Puts Rights at Risk
Prevents police, teachers, social services from protecting basic human rights for fear of upsetting ‘communities.’
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Biologists Join Philosophers in Moral Thinking
Marc Hauser, David Sloan Wilson, Samuel Bowles look at trolleyology, altruism, and moral behavior.
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Seyla Benhabib on Turkey’s Hijab Legislation
Unfortunate that reform of Article 301 (on ‘insulting Turkishness’) was dropped.
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Measles Cases at Record High in Britain
The only way to reduce impact of such outbreaks is to ensure uptake of MMR vaccine increases.
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Lookin’ Good for Jesus
The products included a “Virtuous vanilla” lip balm and a “Get Tight with Christ” hand and body cream.
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Turkey Begins Radical Revision of Hadith
Dept of Religious Affairs has commissioned theologians at Ankara University to revise the Hadith.
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The War Against Women Never Ends
In West Africa, as in so many places where rape was used as a weapon of war, it has become a habit.
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Steve Jones Disses Creationism
‘Creationism is boring and empty, and I usually ignore it, but this week at UCL it’s hard to do so.’
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Multi-secularism: The New Agenda
Multi-secularism seems to be the best strategy: adapting secular values to the societies in which they arise.
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Open Letter from American Feminists
Katha Pollitt notes: ‘Women’s rights are human rights’ was not a slogan dreamed up by David Horowitz.
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Nigeria: Human Rights Group Condemns Stoning
The group called for compulsory education of all sharia judges on the provisions of the UDHR.
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Hamas Bunny on Motoon Cartoonists
‘Assud: If they do it again, Saraa, we will kill them, right?’ Aww, how cute.
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The Indy Talks to Sayed Pervez Kambaksh
‘What they call my trial lasted just four minutes in a closed court.’
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How to Interpret Evidence
Atheists have a disease that makes them unable to see Angels of the Lord.
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Rafia Zakaria Reviews Books on Women in Iran
What to do when feminism gets entangled with orientalism and neo-conservatism?
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Ultra-orthodox News Media Delete Women
‘Spiritual committees.’ Rabbis. Modesty. Obscurity. Result: women Photoshopped out of pictures.