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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Relatives Found Guilty in Banaz Mahmod Case
She tried repeatedly to warn police that her life was in danger, even naming the likely killers.
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Satire: Islamic London Would Be a Better Place
It is satire isn’t it? Surely?
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Alia Malek Interviews Flemming Rose
‘When we want a comment now, we will not go to the radical imams that used to speak in the name of all Muslims.’
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Pankaj Mishra Reviews Martha Nussbaum
Nussbaum is particularly concerned about the situation of women in contemporary India.
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Release Haleh Esfandiari
Open letter by 139 writers, including scholars of Iran and the Middle East.
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Four Charged With ‘Familial Homicide’
‘A woman who was beaten to death by her new husband after an arranged marriage.’
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CFI Offers Secular Equivalent of Bible Camp
Impressive line-up includes philosopher Paul Kurtz, famous skeptic Joe Nickell, and others.
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Richard Rorty 1931-2007
In April the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Thomas Jefferson Medal.
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Todd Gitlin Remembers Rorty
‘The philosophical arguments in my head were often arguments with him.’
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Sue Blackmore on Faith and Reason
Blair says religious faith is not inconsistent with reason, Blackmore says yes it is.
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Blair’s Speech to ‘Islam and Muslims’ Conference
Important to show that religious faith is not inconsistent with reason, or progress, or celebration of diversity.
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Alternative Therapists Muzzle a Critic
Colquhoun forced to remove Quackbusters from the UCL servers after complaints from alternative therapists.
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Hooray for the ‘New Sanhedrin’
‘The idea of an authoritative religious body independent of political bias appeals to a community that yearns to follow God’s law.’
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Hindu Monopoly Declared
Governor of Andhra Pradesh has banned propagation of other religions in Hindu ‘holy places.’
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Paul Kurtz on Moral Education for Secular Children
Cites Stephen Law’s The War for Children’s Minds as helpful guidance.
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Life in Saudi Arabia
You can’t stay here. Get out. The men can see you. Go in there. You can’t come in here.
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Jesus Wants to Argue with the Barmaid
But when it comes to Swinburne on suffering, he finds it difficult.
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Teaching Assistant Sues School
Claims religious discrimination. Refused to hear child read Harry Potter book.
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Ronald Aronson on the New Atheism
About 25% of Americans must be getting fed up with being routinely marginalized, ignored and insulted.