Arrested after writing an article in Spanish newspaper criticizing Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Islamists Target Other Muslims
Expanding the criteria for apostasy, blasphemy, heresy, all subject to punishment or death.
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Bernard Lewis on Women and Islam
Women not thought important enough to get brain-deadening indoctrination that passes for education.
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Witch Killing in India
There are scores of women who have been branded witch by villagers and tortured.
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Bless This Fabulous Kitchen
Vicars join real estate agents to bring Anglican feng shui to garage-blessing.
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Nick Cohen on Bigots, Racists, Worthless Buffoons
So why does the BNP keep getting elected?
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Marching Backwards Again
Religious opposition to contraception is the next big thing. Whoopee.
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Bishops to Fight Assisted Dying Bill
So if you have to die helpless and in pain, thank the bishops.
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Friends Fear Jahanbegloo Has Been Tortured
Friday it emerged that the philosopher has been seen at least twice in the medical clinic at Evin prison.
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ICA Talk May 17: Does Truth Matter?
Simon Blackburn, Stephen Law, Nick Cohen; Jeremy Stangroom chairs.
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Animal Pain Counts, Animal Life Doesn’t
Ethical consumers tinker with purchasing decisions to feel virtuous, rather than grasp issues that require hard choices.
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Johann Hari on Horrors in DR Congo
Starving women are used here as pack-horses, carrying twice their own weight.
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Mary Warnock on Assisted Dying
Possible to question whether sanctity of life is a principle from which parliament can properly derive its decisions.
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12 ‘Militants’ Off to Denmark to Murder Cartoonists
Journalist told that 12 members of al-Qaeda entered Iran two days ago en route to Denmark.
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Islamist Online Mag Urges Motoon Retaliation
‘It may prove difficult to make all Muslims carry out the divine verdict in this matter’ – but worth a try.
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What Would Kierkegaard Do?
Carlin Romano asks scholar what K would have thought of the Danish cartoons.
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Ignatieff Pleads for Jahanbegloo’s Release
‘He’s a scholar, he’s a teacher, he’s an activist…[H]e’s never been engaged in anti-Iranian activities.’
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Harold Bloom on Freud as Great Essayist
Not a scientist, but the Montaigne of the 20th century.
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‘Shoddy Scholarship Motivated by an Agenda’
Biologists criticize game theory of sexual selection.
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Blog Set Up to Follow Jahanbegloo Situation
Canada worries at similarity to Zara Kazemi case.
