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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Martin Bright Disavows ‘Islamophobe’ Label
His argument is with government ministers who have failed to seek out other voices among Muslims.
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Reliance on MCB May be Convenient But…
Government is making a mistake if it hands the franchise of dialogue over to a single organisation.
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Pastors Charge Government With Christianophobia
‘The latest discrimination against Christians is the new law called the Sexual Orientation Regulations.’
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Letters Reject Communalism
‘Racial and religious divides can go too far and lead us away from good community relations.’
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Hindus ‘Yearn to be Understood as a Community’
Everyone else is a community, in fact the community, so Hindus want to be the community too.
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Pickled Politics on ‘Connecting British Hindus’
The report seems little more than an exercise by the Hindu Forum to make some noise.
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Indian Newspapers React to Mumbai Bombings
‘We almost never apprehend those who kill in the name of politics and faith…’
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France Observes Dreyfus Centenary
‘The fight against the dark forces of intolerance and hate is never definitively won.’
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Aaronovitch on ‘Mission Creep’ in Afghanistan
You go in to get rid of the Taleban and you end up risking lives just to educate women.
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HRW on Threats to Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
HRW documented 204 incidents of attacks on teachers, students and schools since January 2005.
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Human Rights Watch on ‘Night Letters’
3,000 (8%) of the 37,743 officially enrolled students in Zabul were girls in March 2006.
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Bombs Kill At Least 130 on Mumbai Trains
7 near-simultaneous blasts went off during rush hour in the suburbs.
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Francis Wheen on the Poet of Dialectics
Das Kapital a literary masterpiece: Gothic novel, Victorian melodrama, Greek tragedy, Swiftian satire.
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World This Weekend [audio]
Muslims who don’t want to join the MCB have a hard time getting a hearing.