An Israeli activist and a UK journalist report.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Kelly ‘Sympathetic’ to Church Pleas
Church leaders are urging ministers not to put the rights of gays above the ‘rights’ of Christians.
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Bunting Tells Sen Why He’s Wrong
Cites ‘adoption’ by ‘lobby of vociferous aggressive secularists.’
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Catholic Church Interferes in School Tribunal
Atheist teacher who won case is not much pleased.
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Muslim Women Angry at Being Ignored
‘Community leaders’ and male-dominated national Muslim organisations fail to represent them.
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Look Out, it’s the Blitcons!
Ziauddin Sardar on Rushdie, Amis and McEwan. They’re critical of Islam. The horror, the horror.
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Dalits Remember Ambedkar
Most Dalits see Ambedkar as someone who challenged the very basis of the caste system.
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Abused Woman Talks to Tanzanian Media
Agnes Mbuyamajuu is among many women who suffer from domestic violence in Tanzania.
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Schools Under Attack in Thailand
Schools and teachers are targeted by suspected Muslim insurgents.
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Dennett and Minsky Discuss the Brain
‘We’re interested in it for purely curious, scientific reasons. We want to know how we work.’
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UN Urges Rights for Arab Women
UN Development Programme’s report reveals deep-seated discrimination against women across the region.
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Arab Human Development Report Launch
In 2002, the first Report identified women’s disempowerment as one of three critical deficits crippling Arab nations.
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Bérubé and Horowitz Together at Last
Three Horowitzes and eight or nine Bérubés.
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Science and Religion Duke it Out
‘How did religion acquire its extraordinary immunity against normal levels of criticism?’
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Pope Expresses Admiration for Muslims
Has he met all of them?
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Niqab-wearer to Give ‘Alternative’ Xmas Message
She is called ‘feisty’ and ‘an everyone who can articulate the views of British Muslims.’
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Headteachers Oppose Expansion of ‘Faith’ Schools
‘A great deal more anxiety about a formal linking of religion to politics and education than there was.’
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Fred Halliday on the Pope’s Visit to Turkey
On what authority do such potentates travel to hold forth on matters of contemporary international politics?
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Peter Singer Did Not Change His Mind
Defenders of biomedical research say the confusion shows the contradictions in the animal rights movement.
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Germaine Greer Declines ‘Plain English’ Prize
Kant’s ‘unsynthesised manifold’ ought to be known to ‘most reasonably educated Guardian readers.’