Articles in the magazine Women’s Rights deemed “un-Islamic” and “insulting to Islam” by local clerics.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bad Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Good playwright though.
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Pinter’s Dramatic Impact
‘Pinter remains…a questioner of accepted truths.’ Some of them.
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Rampant Violence Against Women
UN Population Fund report found 94 percent of women in Egypt think it’s ok to be beaten.
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Only Greater Rights for Women Can End Poverty
Report calls for government action to free women from poverty and ignorance their cultures impose.
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Incompetent Writers Make History Too
Hitler offers a vision of revitalization and rebirth following the perceived decay of the liberal era.
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EU Official Has Lunch With Orhan Pamuk
Pamuk was charged under law forbidding calling Armenian genocide ‘genocide’.
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Afghan Editor on Trial for ‘Blasphemy’
Editor of women’s rights magazine charged after after complaints from religious figures.
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Science by Assumption
ID is an insidious attempt by a religious caucus to impose its views on the whole US.
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Wayne Booth 1921-2005
Author of The Rhetoric of Irony, The Company We Keep, The Vocation of a Teacher.
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Not Subconscious Drives but Helicobacter Pylori
A bacterium causes ulcers.
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The Muslim Brotherhood in France
Muslim Brotherhood works to roll back secularism and assimilation.
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18 Friends?! Who Even Knows That Many People?
Friendship is the new sex – everybody pretends to be good at it.
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The Most Blatant Religious Test Imaginable
You may not even be considered for the Supreme Court unless you have a religion of some kind.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Opposes Euthanasia
Convinced ‘life is a gift from God that we cannot treat as a possession of our own to keep or throw away as we choose.’
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Church Leaders Oppose Euthanasia Bill
Anglican Bishop of Oxford says it’s wrong to elevate the principle of choice above all other values.
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Peer Offers Compromise on Euthanasia Bill
Archbishops oppose, 87% of people approve.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Theodore Dalrymple
Dalrymple has a following on the sarcastic right; the thoughtful left should be reading him.
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ID and Approaching Theocracy
Secularism will lose no matter what happens in Pennsylvnia court case.
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Blogging and Tenure
Why blog when you should be doing real research instead?