Journalist and women’s rights defender held for peaceful activities supporting equal rights for women in Iran.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Reporters Without Borders on Maryam Hosseinkhah
Zanestan, a women’s online bi-monthly founded in 2005, has been closed since 12 November 2007.
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Payvand on Maryam Hossienkhah
The site of the Women’s Cultural Center was shut down by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
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Australia: 5 Liberals Hand Out Fake Pamphlets
Leaflets purported to be from an Islamic group thanking Labor for its sympathy for the Bali bombers.
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Saudi Rape Victim Tells Her Story
Saudi Ministry of Justice is defending a sentence of 200 lashes for the victim of a gang rape.
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Democratic Candidates Rebuke Saudi, Bush
Victim’s husband urges international media to put pressure on Saudi government to reverse decision.
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Riots in Calcutta Over Taslima Nasreen
All-India Minority Forum said Nasreen had ‘seriously hurt Muslim sentiments.’ And?
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Taslima Nasreen Leaves Calcutta After Riots
At least 43 people were hurt. Critics say she called for the Koran to be changed to give women greater rights.
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Human Rights Watch on Saudi Case
Judge banned the victim’s lawyer, who is Saudi Arabia’s best-known human rights lawyer.
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Stephen Law on Alain de Botton
Suggests that academic analytic philosophy is a waste of time, then is surprised at response.
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Nigel Warburton Recommends The Grasshopper
Bernard Suits combines witty parody of Platonic dialogues with serious philosophy about the nature of games.
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Todd Gitlin on What They Think of Us
To what degree is anti-Americanism attributable to the ruinous preoccupations of Bush?
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Controversy Over Mearsheimer and Walt Book
The main effect of the lobby, Tony Judt says, has been self-censorship.
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Fake Pamphlet was a ‘Prank’
It was just a bit of skylarking over a few beers.
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Rebecca Goldstein on Mark Lilla
Some of us have been taking the European Enlightenment a little bit for granted.
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All the President’s Powers
If we recalled the lessons of the nation’s founding, we’d stop falling for imperially-minded presidents.
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Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Admin
‘Unitary executive theory’ makes the president more accountable; secrecy subverts that.
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Xian Group Demands Blasphemy Prosecution
BBC’s JSO was ‘offensive, spiteful, systematic mockery and wilful denigration of Christian belief.’
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Normblog on Catch-23 for Atheists
If you’re an atheist you won’t convince a religious person, and if you’re religious you won’t want to.
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Police Accused of Trying to Stifle Debate
‘What appears to be an attempt to censor television, stifle investigative journalism and inhibit open debate.’