‘God likes Muslims and dislikes Kafirs.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Carl Zimmer on the Scientific Output of ID
That long list of peer-reviewed articles and citations – it must be around somewhere…
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Talking to Rushdie
What happened with The Satanic Verses was a kind of prologue, now we’re in the main event.
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Pope Warns Against Secularism
Also DIY religion. Accept no substitutes.
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Peter Singer on Animal Rights in the US
Many states have exemptions to anticruelty laws for ‘common farming practices.’
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Philosophy for Children
Lively discussions develop around the topics of beauty, truth, justice and reality.
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Not Sucking but Yawning
How hard the brain sucks depends in part on what you are trying to push into it.
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The Puking Young Woman of the Continent
Modern mindset demands quick fixes and is unwilling to defer gratification.
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MCB Accuses BBC of Witch Hunt
BBC says MCB put pressure on Panorama interviewees to withdraw from program.
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Letters on Observer Article on MCB
‘Thank god that someone has finally seen through the PR machine of the MCB.’
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A Founder of MCB Says It Is in Denial
‘The MCB is seen [by whom?] as representing mainstream Muslim opinion in the UK.’
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Like Lana Turner Discovered at Soda Fountain
Danto could do something as art critic he could not do as philosopher, namely philosophize.
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Philosophers to Consider Movies at Seminar
Hoping application of philosophy to popular medium can make it more accessible.
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Woolly Discussion of Multiculturalism
Failure to define terms leaves all in confusion.
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The Price of Multiculturalism
It has encouraged the politicisation of identity in ethnic or religious terms.
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Challenge to Jurgas’ Decision on Women Voting
Jirga unanimously decided not to allow women voters to come to polling stations.
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Women Barred in Order to Maintain Law and Order
‘Traditionally, our women have always stayed away from elections and they are not even ready to step out of their homes.’
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Fareed Zakaria
Interviews non-Yanks on tv show, giving US needed dose of cosmopolitanism.
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Roger Scruton
Not an apologia but a reminder.
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Normblog Profile Hits Century Mark
Revisit some high spots.