Inayat Bunglawala is a good example of what I mean by the extreme version of 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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Loudspeaker Plan for Oxford Mosque Not Popular
Neighbours think it might be a tad noisy and intrusive. And theological.
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Brian Whitaker on HRW and Honour Killings
Many governments that sign up to treaties such as CEDAW face resistance from conservatives at home.
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Brian Whitaker on Human Rights and Universalism
There is no room for selectively excluding some humans on the pretext of local circumstances or cultural norms.
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Past Imperfect
Charlie Wilson helped to bring down a project of secular modernisation. Clever.
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Ezra Levant to Alberta Human Rights Commission
The commission is acting as a censor. That’s human rights?
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Defiant Levant Republishes Motoons
Syed Soharwardy of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada filed a complaint.
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The Huckster’s Artful Dodging on Evolution
It is unacceptable for a presidential candidate to advocate a clearly unconstitutional educational policy.
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Children Baptised for Sake of School Place
‘A great compliment from the community at large to the quality of the Catholic school system.’
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Blasphemy Laws on the Skids
Archbishop of Canterbury will not oppose abolition.
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Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
Judicial authorities amputated the right hands and left feet of five convicted robbers this week.
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Jesus and Mo on How Fallible Humans Know
A moment of infallibility does the trick.
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Why Ratzinger is the Pope and Jesus is Not
Ratzinger has such clever ideas.
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Ben Goldacre on Clinical Trials
You can’t change your mind about what you’re counting as your main outcome after you’ve finished and the results are in.
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The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief
By Tom Flynn (editor), Richard Dawkins (foreword).
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Live Murder Inquiry in Shafilea Ahmed Case
Coroner believes the concept of arranged marriage was central to the circumstances leading up to her death.
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Shafilea Ahmed Feared a Forced Marriage
‘My parents are going to send me to Pakistan and I’ll be married to someone and left there.’
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God Says Stand Up Straight
‘Even many good, godly people have gotten into a bad habit of slumping and looking down.’ Blasphemers.
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How Silly is Mormonism?
Mormonism is no sillier than other religions, it’s just younger. (Hmm…)
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Kenya Isn’t Supposed To Be Like This
The electoral contest exposed an ethnic fissure whose depth was no secret to ordinary Kenyans.