But criticism of Islam is another matter.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why Another Look at the Zimbardo Experiment?
Because the Stanford Prison Experiment may explain a vast range of disasters.
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Joan Smith Defends Channel 4
Channel 4 was right to investigate Wahhabi influence in British mosques.
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Jesus and Mo Ask the Barmaid
If you don’t believe in God, why don’t you go around behaving selfishly and badly? So ha.
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The Barmaid Doesn’t Get the Identity Problem
Perhaps the pigeon does.
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Two Journalists Murdered in Somalia
Press freedom groups worldwide expressed horror at the ‘savage’ killings on 11 August 2007.
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Two Somali Canadian Journalists Killed
Somali associates outraged, saying both deaths were part of a deliberate campaign against the media.
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HornAfrik a Beacon of Integrity in Somalia
Mahad Ahmed Elmi’s talk show challenged human-rights abusers and warlords and extremists.
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Freeman Dyson on the Need for Heretics
Experts who talk publicly about contentious questions tend to speak more clearly than they think.
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Violence Against Women in Punjab
Statistics compiled by the HRCP: 172 cases of honour killing were reported in Punjab in 2003.
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Ex-Muslim ‘Foments Sectarian Antagonism’
According to the AP, anyway.
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The Bible is Crap Literature
The Good Book is not, as is so often suggested, a damn good read. It’s crap.
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Rorty’s Solution to a Basic Philosophical Question
His critique of universalism constituted a liberation but left no alternative to moral ethnocentrism.
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Police Investigate ‘Undercover Mosque’
‘Community leaders’ were ‘enraged’ by Channel 4 documentary.
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Why Are the Cops Collaring TV?
Undercover Mosque was great journalism. That the CPS thought it incited racial hatred beggars belief.
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Channel 4’s Kevin Sutcliffe Replies
The speakers were shown making abhorrent comments in mainstream Islamic institutions.
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Mohammed Shafiq is Outraged
‘Channel 4 should apologise immediately for the hurt they have caused those people.’
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Imams OK, Reporters All Wrong
Charges will not be brought against kuffar-hating clerics, but police report Channel 4 to Ofcom.
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The Police as TV Critics – Thumbs Down
Had anyone asked the police for specific examples to justify their grand claim, they would have been left wanting.
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Do the West Midlands Police Side with Islamists?
The Islamic state envisaged is not an ideal kingdom of heaven where the lion shall lie down with the lamb.