It can no longer be claimed that the secular majority has acquiesced to the religious minority; there is no secular majority, only a negligible minority.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Afghan woman killed for giving birth to a girl
Some women in Afghanistan are abused if they fail to give birth to boys. This is the latest in a series of high-profile crimes against women in the country.
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Fox News “investigates” Rock Beyond Belief
Quotemine quotemine quotemine. I really appreciate you giving us a call.
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Death threats for Dutch satirist’s burqa song
Johan Vlemmix has stopped performing the song onstage and cancelled the option to order the shirts via his website.
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Shafias found guilty
All three found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder of Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52.
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Mark Vernon says the materialist world view must go
Science an act of faith? Science a belief system? But then how else to explain the grip of the mechanistic, physicalist, purposeless cosmology?
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University bows to Hindutva student group fatwa on film
Symbiosis University cancelled screening of documentary on Kashmir after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad raised objections to its ‘separatist’ nature.
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Jessica Ahlquist faces Cranston’s rage
New York Times asks, bullyingly, “Does she empathize in any way with members of her community who want the prayer to stay?”
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Alain de Botton wants to build atheist “temple”
To celebrate a “new atheism” as an antidote to what he describes as Professor Richard Dawkins’s “aggressive” and “destructive” approach to non-belief.
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William Dalrymple on last Tuesday afternoon in Jaipur
“Then they sought out our producer, Sanjoy Roy, and told him that they were prepared to use any amount of violence in order to stop Rushdie’s voice being heard.”
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The Pod Delusion with Jesus and Mo at LSE
James O’Malley talks to Chris Moos of LSE ASH.
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The Muslim Brotherhood
Maybe they won’t be so bad, people say nervously. Maybe they’ll be only a little bit bad. We hope so.
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Kentucky cuts education, funds creationism
Kentucky Governor is suggesting over $50 million in cuts to education – while preserving $43 million in tax breaks for Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter theme park.
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Giant ugly Jesus statue for Primrose Hill
Something to do with the Olympics and Rio de Janeiro, but the people of North London are not delighted.
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New Hampshire Republicans propose bills that prevent…
…police from protecting victims of domestic violence. That’s family values.
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Audio of LSE SU debate on Islamophobia
“It’s deeply insulting to ridicule a faith.”
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Women stripped and assaulted in Tahrir Square
They get grabbed, knocked down, stripped, beaten up, finger-raped – then told not to say anything because “it would hurt the image of the revolution.”
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Human rights groups monitor trial of Baltasar Garzón
AI, HRW, and IJC have all sent observers amid concerns that Garzón is being targeted because of his innovative use of international human rights laws.
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Threats stop even video appearance by Rushdie
Muslim groups attending the festival threatened violence if Rushdie appeared via video.
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Popehat on shut-uppery at LSE
The LSE Student Union’s statement on the matter is a master class in the mindset of censorious bureaucrats.