The real goal of Islamist terrorism is destruction of political integration.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ehsan Masood on Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Many parents, asked about the ban, are likely to wonder what took Blair so long.
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Sam Harris on the Politics of Ignorance
Trojan Horse of ID has entered the city, scary religious imbeciles are now spilling out.
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Richard Dawkins Urges: Start Shouting
Millions of atheists out there are too frightened to come out and admit it.
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Starry Booker Prize Longlist
Barnes, McEwan, Rushdie, Ishiguro, Smith A, Smith Z, Coetzee, Mantel, Banville.
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Indigenous Groups Object to Genographic Research
‘What is the point of challenging generations of oral history and spiritual belief?’
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There Are No Brakes You Can Apply
Frozen peat bog in Siberia is melting, will release billions of tons of methane.
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The Thaw Will Speed Global Warming
Knock-on effects could make temperatures around the world rise faster and faster.
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Climate Warming as Siberia Melts
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region has begun to melt.
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Chris Mooney on the Discovery Institute
ID hawkers say public schools should ‘teach the controversy’ they themselves have manufactured.
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Enough With the Retreads of Frankenstein Myth
Enough caricatures of mad-scientists wanting powers reserved only for God.
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The Republican War on Science
Chris Mooney’s new book.
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‘Teach the Controversy’
Evolution as the theory of a powerful elite that suppresses legitimate dissent.
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Finkelstein and Dershowitz Are at Odds
Over Zionism, anti-Semitism, hyperbole, plagiarism, personal charges, and more.
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Denis MacEoin on Hizb ut-Tahrir
It derides democracy as a western evil and justifies the execution of apostates.
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Irshad Manji on Multiculturalism as Orthodoxy
Neither watery word ‘tolerance’ nor slippery phrase ‘mutual respect’ will cut it.
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Toledo Blade Blows the Whistle on the Cops
Those sworn to enforce law have aided diocese in covering up sexual abuse by priests.
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Two Professors Hired to Teach Islamic Law
University of Toronto pleased, campaigners against sharia in Ontario not pleased.
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Toledo Blade Reports Cover Up
Says police helped Catholic Diocese of Toledo cover up sex abuse allegations.
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‘Popetown’ Released on DVD
Bishop, without seeing it, declared series an irreverent attack on the faith.