Anthony Glees says up to 48 British universities have been infiltrated by fundamentalists.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Creation Museum’ is Growing
Museum depicts literal reading of Genesis, which describes how God created the world in six days.
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Mock Anything Except Religion
Political satire is good fun, but religious satire makes people scamper away in fear.
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Anne Barton on Ron Rosenbaum on Shakespeare
The book is being widely read; but it is, in many respects, inaccurate and seriously misleading.
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John Gray on The Song Before It Is Sung
‘Humans may fashion their lives, but in some of their most vital decisions they have no choice.’
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Johann Hari on Mark Steyn’s Silly Fantasy
A masterclass in how not to resist Islamism.
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Report on Women’s Rights Seminar
Women standing up for their rights against a controlling and often violent religious establishment.
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Impunity for Violence Against Women
Look, if a woman never leaves home, she’ll never be raped, so if she’s raped, it’s her fault.
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UN Calls for End of Impunity
‘Violence against women is rightly termed the most common but least punished crime in the world.’
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Evangelicals ‘Speak Out’ Against Gay Rights
Evangelical Alliance says regulations will unfairly jeopardise expression of religion and belief.
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Michael Walzer Replies to Jerome Slater
Talk of ‘the political power of American Jews’ is a very dangerous trope.
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Johann Hari on Genuinely Comprehensive Schools
Voices of raw class privilege cast off meritocracy to demand privileges for People Like Us.
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Jesus and Mo on Certainty and Doubt
The barmaid isn’t so sure.
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Jesus and Mo on Knowing all the Answers
Or at least believing you know them. Good enough.
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Ehsan Masood on Multiculturalism in Canada
Canada has the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
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Religion and Secularism in Israel
Secular Israelis feel severely constrained by religious strictures.
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Nawal Al-Saadawi Takes a Break from Egypt
Sees appeasement of the MB leading to increased religionism in society.
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Swiss Court Convicts Turkish Politician
Of racial discrimination for denying that mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to genocide.
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Australian Muslim Group Tells Imams to Shut Up
Lebanese Muslim Association tells 5 clerics to stop talking to media.
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PBS et la Querelle Autour de Mme Einstein
‘Un bien mauvais service à rendre que de réparer les injustices d’hier par des approximations, des demi-vérités, voire de falsifications.’
