‘Every day, more and more women are killed in Kurdistan while the authorities watch and do nothing.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Man Stones 14-Year-Old Daughter to Death
A distraught woman, crying uncontrollably, told the authorities in Zahedan her daughter had been murdered.
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Man Shoots His Sister to Death
Brother suspected her of ‘illicit relations’ so he killed her. Nice for her six children.
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BBC Notices Apostasy Problem
Sort of.
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HRW on Egypt and Freedom of Religion
An ID card stating no religion is not an option.
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Susan Jacoby on Anti-intellectualism
The problem is not ignorance but being pleased about it.
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Vaccines and Autism: Myths and Misconceptions
The anti-vaccination movement, based on bad science and fear-mongering, is more vocal and hostile.
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Picture Life Without Vaccines
‘No One Got Sick or Died from a Vaccine-Preventable Disease Today’ is not a very exciting story.
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Nigel Warburton Interviews James Garvey
Climate change presents us with a host of moral problems. Getting those in plain sight is part of the point of the book.
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The Internet Links Philosophy With its Roots
Mark O’Connell recommends philosophy blogs: Talking Philosophy, Virtual Philosopher, Stephen Law.
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Carlin Romano on Socrates
Isocrates practiced the philosophical study of ethics without the dogmatism of Plato’s Socrates.
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Jasvinder Sanghera on Forced Marriage
Some 300 girls aged 13-16 have disappeared off the school registers in Bedford alone.
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Wikipedia Ordered to Remove Images of Prophet
On two of the images, Muhammad’s face is veiled; on two others, his face is shown. A face, anyway.
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Normblog on Tony Judt on ‘Too Much Holocaust’
Judt has all these difficulties by way of honouring Hannah Arendt. It is hard to imagine a more unworthy tribute to her.
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Terry Glavin on ‘Freedom to Read Week’
The Vancouver Public Library seems to have confused free speech with providing a platform.
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The ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ is not Sufficient
More from Terry Glavin on Greg Felton and free speech.
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Terry Glavin Answers the Vancouver Librarian
Before Librarian’s letter, Felton’s invitation was more or less an honest mistake. Now it’s about ‘intellectual freedom.’
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VPL Provides an Internal Memo
Memo makes it clear that the library cannot distinguish between freedom and active promotion.
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The Archbishop’s Attack on Secularism
Sharia courts can be given full legal status only through the suspension of certain legal rights of a section of the population.
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Ziauddin Sardar on the Archbishop and Sharia
It is not just in the west that the sharia conjures up instant images of oppression and brutality.