“In honor-based culture, people think that girls could become too independent and make their own choices if they educate themselves.”
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pakistan: female teacher murdered
Shahnaz Bibi was shot dead on Tuesday by two motorbike riders near the school where she taught in the Khyber tribal region.
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Syrian refugee women sold to men
“The Saudis usually ask for 12-year-olds.”
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Man jailed for killing a teenager by setting him on fire
A gay teenager with Asperger’s makes new friends, invites them to his birthday party, is bullied to death.
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Imams meet to talk about domestic abuse
There are pressures which may lead women to believe that leaving their husband is wrong, because it is their duty to be obedient.
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Another gang-rape in India
A Swiss couple were camping during a cycling trip when they were attacked by seven or eight men. The man was beaten and tied up while the woman was raped.
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Cardinal says child rape is not a crime but an illness
“Now don’t tell me that those people are criminally responsible.” Therefore the church should conceal and protect their activities?
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UN body agrees declaration on violence against women
A proposed amendment by Egypt, that would have allowed states to avoid implementing the declaration if they clashed with national laws, religious or cultural values, failed.
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Violence against women: legal reform is not enough
Making women’s wellbeing secondary to “harmony in the home” and treating violence as a private matter are two obstacles to progress.
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Soraya Chemaly on Steubenville and systematic tolerance for rape
Shame-based double standards make people think that girls who drink themselves blotto deserve what they “get“.
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Allen Esterson on Maintaining Scholarly Standards
It is now quite widely believed that Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife, played an active role in Einstein’s early scientific work.
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Leo Igwe giving a talk in London March 25
Nigeria’s most prominent humanist, and a human rights activist, will be giving a ground-breaking talk on ‘Breaking the Taboo of Atheism in Black Communities’.
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Segregation at UCL is no exception to the rule
Student Rights reports that several events at London universities have been advertised as “fully segregated.”
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Gender segregation collects the girls for easy access
Three men arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and false imprisonment at an Islamic girls’ school have links with the school, police said.
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The Guardian on gender segregation at UCL event
University College London said reports of segregation at the debate hosted by the Islamic Education and Research Academy on 9 March were worrying.
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Skeptical Science on gender segregation at UCL event
Attendees were rather astonished to discover upon arrival that two doors had been set up, one strictly for females and the other for males.
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UCL on gender segregation at iERA event
We do not allow enforced segregation on any grounds at meetings held on campus.
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Walkout in UCL over Gender Segregation at iERA event
The Islamic Education and Research Academy is an extreme Islamist organization, whose staff includes Islamist hate preachers such as Hamza Tzortzis and Yusuf Chambers.
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Mob destroys Lahore neighborhood over “blasphemy”
The mob attacked the houses in the provincial capital following allegations of blasphemy against a Christian man.
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South Dakota law will allow teachers to carry guns
The law’s backers say it will prevent mass school shootings.
