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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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‘Gulabi Gang’ Tackles Sexism in Uttar Pradesh
Locals unsurprised at a women’s vigilante group in this landscape of poverty, discrimination and chauvinism.
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Richard Jenkyns on the Idea of a ‘Canon’
More plausible to suppose a spectrum of creative ability than a sharp division between genius and the rest.
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Not All Religions Fret About ‘Playing God’
Some don’t have ‘God,’ some don’t object to playing the part.
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Leon Kass Offers Obscurantist Nonsense
‘Scientific ideas and discoveries are being enlisted to do battle against our traditional religious and moral teachings.’
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The Homeopath to Success
Why should it be that only those who believe in homeopathy are allowed the benefits of the placebo effect?
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3 Iraqi Cousins Behead Aunt and Uncle
Militant cousins considered uncle an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers.
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Taslima Nasrin is Now Homeless
Rajasthan government is awaiting a direction on where Nasrin would stay.
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Blair Feared ‘Faith Nutter’ Label
‘If he sees a very attractive woman his eye will wander.’ Oh good, he’s normal then.
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Muslim Women’s Group to Advise UK Gov’t
National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group is led by 19 women from a wide range of professions and traditions.
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Christian ‘Offended’ Over Steve Jones Lecture
‘As a Christian I am offended that the lecture…has so clearly been chosen to antagonise Christians.’
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Maker of ‘Undercover Mosque’ is Angry
Many of the mosques had a public image as moderate. Yet the preaching was antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist.
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Imam Beat Boy With Mop Handle
‘The highly-educated imam can reportedly recite the Koran word for word.’
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Morality and Religion Are Not One and Indivisible
Archbishops mistaken to think there cannot be any meaningful secular morality.
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‘Blasphemous’ Feminist Nasreen is Threatened
Nasreen is adamant that her work is not blasphemous but that it campaigns for the rights of women.
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Steven Rose Vomits Up Some Bile
Amis and Hitchens – Islamophobia – hate speech – criminal offence – feel they can get away with it.
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Hitchens on Amis, Racism, Reality
Mosques are distributing DVDs calling for the murder of Jews and Hindus; what price multiculturalism?
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Joan Bakewell Says Women Should Speak Up
It is not being Islamophobic to wish for our Muslim sisters the freedom from brutal constraints.
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Tsk – Falling Standards Again
Scientists contacted by Nature say that AS-level coursework would be unlikely to help a terrorist.
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Free Women Activists in Iran
Maryam Hosseinkhah, Delaram Ali, Ronak Safar Zade, Hanna Abdi, lashed and imprisoned.