‘This is about murder in the name of the father, the son, the blessed male members of the family.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says FGM is Forbidden
After an 11-year-old girl died while being chopped at a private medical clinic in southern Egypt.
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Jonathan Edwards Stops Believing in God
‘In some ways I feel more human than I ever have.’
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Akbar Ahmed is not Optimistic
Deoband thinking is winning.
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Petition to Congratulate PM for Rushdie’s K
This honour stands as a symbol of our commitment to ignoring Rage Boy.
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Belated Move to Ask Muslim Women to Speak Up
‘Oh, right – some of them are women, aren’t they; let’s ask them.’
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Islamist Groups Prompt Some ‘Honour’ Murders
‘They told her husband that if he didn’t put his wife in her place then they would do it themselves.’
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Ten Men Rage at Rushdie
We strongly deplore, say ten bullies.
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Let’s Stop Channeling Rage Boy
We may have to put up with the Rage Boys of the world, but we ought not to do their work for them.
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Paul Davies on the Goldilocks Enigma
We will never explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must be accepted on faith.
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Nick Cohen on the Anti-Rushdie Alliance
It remains astonishing how many people who profess liberal sympathies don’t get it.
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Pakistan Says Rushdie K Breaks UN Resolution
Claims Britain acted against the spirit of UN resolution 1624.
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That’s the Scale of the Error
Creationism is equivalent to believing that the width of North America is 7.8 yards.
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George Felis on What Atheism Isn’t
People who believe in God arrive at their moral views by exercising their own judgment.
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Jesus and the Barmaid on Theodicy
The barmaid is no match for the eloquence of Jesus.
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Do They Have Effigy Shops in Pakistan?
Jesus and Mo discuss the blasphemous knighthood, or is it the chivalric blasphemy.
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The New Physics Exam
1) Here is the equation; how does it make you feel? 2) Suggest how the two scientists could compromise.
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Tonight on Irrational Scare Program: WiFi Routers
After eating babies, the WiFi Routers will grow to enormous size and attack our cities.
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Garton Ash Gets It
‘The issue is whether people should be killed, or face a serious threat of being killed, for what they say or write.’
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Rushdie Has Nothing to Apologize For
Not the merit of his books, not his failure to be ‘grateful,’ not blasphemy, not apostasy; nothing.