Fatwa declares that Muslim women must stay at home and must not go out ‘uncovered.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Norman Geras on Crimes Against Humanity
The actual state of international law is not the same as a philosophical underpinning.
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‘Design’ is the Wrong Word
Even talk of the appearance of design is misleading.
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Sasha Simic on the Joys of the Cairo Conference
‘There were speakers from various political traditions: Hammas, Hizbullah, the Muslim Brotherhood…’
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On the Brink of Islamicization of Indonesia
FPI activists almost as audacious as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or Malaysia’s religious police.
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Simon Blackburn on Baudrillard
No sooner has the real moment gone than the work of memory begins, selecting, massaging, spinning.
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Grayling’s Question Time: What is Time?
There has never been a time when philosophers were not interested in time.
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Hard Wordes in Plaine English
Scott McLemee on a new edition of the first English dictionary, published in 1604.
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Statistical Errors in a Serial Murder Case
If you multiply p-values together, then harmless incidents rapidly become dangerously unlikely.
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Ben Goldacre on What to Do With the Articles
With real evidence, we are all better placed to communicate the truth behind the news.
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Madrassa Students Busy in Islamabad
Burning CDs and DVDs, loitering at traffic lights to tell women to stop driving.
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Human Rights Activists Rally in Islamabad
Protesters urged authorities to curb the rise of extremist forces promoting intolerance and violence.
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Sharia Gangs Bully and Threaten in Islamabad
Creeping campaign to Talebanise Pakistan has spread from the Afghan border to the capital.
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Jesus and Mo Test Dawkins’s Truth Claim
And triumphantly falsify it, so ha.
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PrayerFlight
What a special weekend for our airplanes to be in the air, interceding on behalf of the people of Ohio.
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Walter Isaacson on Einstein and ‘Faith’
He did believe in God – not the usual God, but – um – er – well he had a sense of awe.
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Happy Cruciversary
It is the culmination of a plan set in motion at the dawn of time. And what a plan it is.
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Dutch Philosopher Spending a Week in a Barrel
Parts of a week anyway. Well, a few hours most days.
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Ugandan Adultery Law Thrown Out
Because it treated women and men unequally; sections of inheritance law also void.
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Howard Gardner on the Need for Five Minds
Disciplined, synthesising, creating, respectful, ethical. Respectful? Yes.