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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.
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Gina Khan Interview on BBC Breakfast Sunday
Don’t miss it.
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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.
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The ‘Culture Wars’ Are Not About to Disappear
There are deep disagreements about the sources of moral authority, the nature of knowing, the ‘limits’ of science.
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Taslima Nasreen Talks to Tehelka
I am against all kind of fundamentalism, dogmas, bigotry and conservatism.I support free minds and free thought.
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More Fuss About Taslima Nasreen’s Visa
Muslim clergy and political leaders warned they would take to the streets if the state continues to shelter her.
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Protection Needed for Targets of Death Threats
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has appealed to the EU to create a fund to help protect people under threat.
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Dane Starts ‘Sorry, Mo’ Group on Facebook
‘That is why I apologise for being a Dane coming from Denmark,’ Anders explains.
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Cross-dressers in Sharia Court in Nigeria
‘Under Sharia law a man must dress like a man and woman must dress like a woman.’
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The Guardian on Tasneem Khalil
HRW accuses international community of ignoring Bangladesh’s clandestine detention and torture system.
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HRW Says Torture is Rampant in Bangladesh
Many of the people arrested under the emergency rules have been tortured to extract confessions.
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CNN on Tasneem Khalil
‘I’m going to tell my story again and again and again,’ Khalil told CNN. ‘It’s not only my story.’
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HRW Report on the Torture of Tasneem Khalil
‘They were hitting me so hard that Iām not sure whether it was just the force that hurt like this or if it was electricity.’
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HRW on Torture in Bangladesh
How the Bangladesh military abuses its power under the state of emergency.
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Pragna Patel on Religious Law and Women
The archbishop’s sentiments are indicative of those who call themselves liberal but are often the most insidious.
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Mary Ann Sieghart on the Joys of Sharia
Mortgages are one thing, women’s lives are another.
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HRW Pleads for Condemned Saudi ‘Witch’
Man said she made him impotent; she is to be executed.
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Archbishop Defends Attack on Secularism
‘We ought to keep an eye on this trend’ of increasing secularism.
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Anne Applebaum on a Western Prejudice
Every time police shrug when a Muslim woman complains of forced marriage, they are acting in the spirit of the archbishop.
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Hitchens on the Archbishop
‘There’s one law for everybody and that’s all there is to be said’ stands out like a diamond in a dunghill.