Report outlined harrowing allegations of assault; 21 residents claimed they were raped and beaten.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Review of Chris Mooney’s Storm World
Nuanced account of major areas of disagreement over possible effects of global warming on hurricanes.
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70th Anniversary of Nanjing Massacre
Some in Japan claim the massacre was fabricated or exaggerated.
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Deadly Religious Resistance to Vaccinations
It’s rare a newspaper actually manages to kill people, but Sir David King believes they may pull it off.
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Aqsa Parvez Wanted to Leave Her Family
Her brother saw her on the street without her hijab. ‘He’ll kill me!’ she said.
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Afghan Woman Call for Peace
‘They were indeed risking their lives, because we really did not know how we would be received.’
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Ali Eteraz Speaks Up for Rationalization
Believers will never say Islam is misogynist, therefore Ayaan Hirsi Ali shouldn’t either.
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Death Penalty for Failure to Submit
‘She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her parents wanted her to.’
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How Canada Let Aqsa Parvez Down
The hijab marks those wearing it as chattel, leashed to their fathers and brothers like a dog collar.
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Girl, 16, Killed for Not Wearing Hijab – in Toronto
Schoolmates said the Grade 11 student had rebelled against her parents recently by refusing to wear a hijab.
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K A Appiah on Experimental Philosophy
Not only are philosophers unaccustomed to gathering data; many define themselves by their disinclination to do so.
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Reading Tariq Ramadan
Political liberalism or comprehensive? Rawlsian or Voltairean? Room for overlapping consensus?
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Never Mind Democracy, Promote Secularism
The rise of the West had much less to do with democracy than with the rise of secularism.
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A Secular Age and Secularism Confronts Islam
Edward Skidelsky notes the trials of secularisation are far from over.
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Poor People Aren’t Hungry, They’re Fat
More money will only make them fatter.
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A Life of Ashes
There are more than 40 million widows in India, for many, their lives are ‘a living sati.’
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Death for Apostasy: the Penny Drops
‘If Muslim religious leaders in Britain are unwilling to speak out on this issue then we really are in trouble.’
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Gujarat Chief Minister Endorses Unlawful Killings
HRW says Indian govt should investigate Narendra Modi for apparently endorsing the extrajudicial execution.
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Jesus Says Atheists Attack the Easy Targets
Fred Phelps and Torquemada are hardly representative. Be fair.
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Mo Tells Barmaid She Can Question Anything
Except God, the Koran, and Mo’s status as Allah’s ultimate prophet. All else wide open.