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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Our World View Was Still Horriby Bipolar
‘We didn’t distinguish on the basis of colour, but on creed. The world was simply divided into believers and nonbelievers.’
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Caliphate Conference in Indonesia
The ideal form of government: it follows ‘the laws of God’ rather than laws designed by humans.
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The Islamist Dream Fills a Jakarta Stadium
‘Maybe not liberal democracy, but uncommon democracy; based on religious values.’
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Time for the Caliphate to Reign
‘Why do some Muslims not agree with the Islamic Sharia, even though it is for the own good of Muslims?’
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Skeptics Whup God in Bestseller Competition
Dawkins and Hitchens currently outselling pope. It’s a start.
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Police File Case Against Taslima Nasreen
‘Her writings have always provoked the religious-minded so we have registered a case for provocative literature.’
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Taslima Nasrin ‘Promoting Communal Enmity’
Hyderabad police have registered a case against her for allegedly ‘creating ill-feeling among communities.’
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‘We’ll Behead Taslima Next Time’
Threats violate Sections 503, 506, 350, 351, 352, 355, 120B, 153A.
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Oxford Warns Wycliffe College
Complaints of homophobia and misogyny have been levelled at Wycliffe’s leadership.
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NHS Cuts Funding of Homeopathy
The bold idea is that scarce money ought to be spent on treatments that work.
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November Conference at Center for Inquiry NYC
The Secular Society & Its Enemies: speakers include Hitchens, Singer, Kaminer, Tyson, Druyan.
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OUP Interviews Julian Baggini
OUP: If there is no God, why bother being good? Baggini: If there is a God, why bother being good?
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CDWRME Bulletin for July-August
Women in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Israel.
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Muslim ‘Protesters’ Attack Taslima Nasreen
About 100 protesters burst in, shouting that the author was ‘anti-Islam’.
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Muslim Lawmakers Attack Nasreen
She backed into a corner as men threw heavy objects at her head and threatened her with a chair.
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Gay Nigerians Face Death Penalty
Eighteen men have been remanded in prison after arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria.
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Dawkins Right on Alt Med, Wrong on Religion
Religion is about ethics, does not compete with science. Oh really?
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Libel Suits Silence Authors
Deborah Lipstadt on an appalling extension of UK libel law.
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Eric Alterman on Inequality in the US
Only in the US are the rich so powerful that their interests become ‘principles’ in political discourse.