Hamdi Shakkour of Palestinian Center for Human Rights said they suspect the women were victims of ‘honor crimes.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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More Immunity for Religion, Islam in Particular
Malaysian government warns it could use anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who ‘insult’ Islam.
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Kidnaped Danish Journalist Released in Afghan.
Two German journalists missing, one killed.
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Shambo to be Killed; Monks ‘Warn’ Officials
‘They will have to physically desecrate a temple to get him. They will have to interrupt an act of worship.’
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Point of Inquiry Interview With OB
Truth, meritocracy, anti-intellectualism, the harm principle, Keats, the Santa Claus argument for God.
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Benson and Stangroom on Intellectual Adolescence
Contrarianism has a proud intellectual heritage, but in its postmodern flowering it became merely juvenile.
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Biologists Receive Threatening Letters
Police at U of Colorado say they know who sent threats to biology professors who teach evolution.
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Nigel Warburton on The Death of Socrates
Emily Wilson provides plausible explanations of why the Athenians were so ready to execute Socrates.
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Utilitarianism, Happiness, Mill
Roger Crisp, author of an acclaimed book on Mill, explains Mill’s utilitarian ethical theory.
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What US Voters Want
Gotta believe in God, but in the right, sane, normal way; none of this funny stuff.
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Does the Religious Majority Rule?
How quickly insiders can become outsiders.
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Jesus and Mo on Sophisticated Theology
What God is a metaphor for.
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It’s All Metaphor, I Tell You
If this god is a metaphor, why are people always building real monuments and cathedrals to it?
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James Ryerson on Rorty
His work was ‘welcomed by theoretically minded professors of literature and cultural studies.’
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Pressure from Neocons and Islamophobes
The remedy is to put the mosque at the heart of everything. Or perhaps not.
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‘Multi-faith’ Schools the Remedy for Segregation
Or perhaps not.
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Mo Explains the ‘Nurse Five Times’ Fatwa
The barmaid becomes lachrymose.
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Center for Inquiry Ontario
Building the atheist church basement.
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It’s a Colonialist Project!
No, it’s about writing off political stances that do not fit the strategic priorities of the west!
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A Converted Postmodernist
Browses in Blackwell’s, reads TPM, reads an ad for the Fashionable Dictionary, reads that, laughs.