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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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9 women polio vaccinators shot dead in Kano, Nigeria
On Thursday, a mullah bashed the polio vaccination campaign, saying that new cases of polio were caused by contaminated medicine.
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South African girl gang-raped and mutilated to death
Before she died, Anene Booysen, 17, identified her former boyfriend as one of her attackers.
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Edna Adan statement on zero tolerance of FGM
“Witnessing the FGM-associated complications that many were suffering caused me to speak out against it in public in 1976 which at that time shocked my family and my people.”
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AlJazeera on London’s “Muslim patrols”
A group under the name of “Muslim Patrol” post YouTube videos showing them harassing people who they think are not conforming to sharia.
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“Muslim patrols” in London could get worse
A group calling itself the Muslim Patrol posted a video showing a gang hurling abuse at a gay man and described white women as “naked animals with no self–respect.”
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Michael Apted on the 7 Up films on Fresh Air
“It was both very funny and also chilling, showing that, in fact, the class system was very active.”
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Sandwich chain withdraws ‘Virgin Mary’ crisps
Sandwich shop chain Pret A Manger has withdrawn a new “Virgin Mary” brand of crisps following religious complaints.
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Ireland: anti-abortion campaigners are shouting louder
They face a similarly vocal pro-choice movement, reinvigorated by the death of Savita Halappanavar.
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Catholics for Choice blasts proposed contraception exemption
Catholics for Choice president Jon O’Brien said that providing such exemptions gives “carte blanche” to “religious extremists” to “trump the rights of others.”
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The push for “fetal heartbeat” bans on abortion
Fetal heartbeat measures seek to outlaw abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, in direct contradiction to Roe v. Wade.
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Malala scheduled for reconstruction surgery
Her doctors say she will return to hospital within the next 10 days to undergo surgery to repair a missing area of her skull with a specially molded titanium plate.
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Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams will debate
Prominent atheist Prof Dawkins and the former Archbishop of Canterbury will discuss whether “religion has no place in the 21st Century” on Thursday.
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Universal human rights in Nigeria
The international community and human rights activists are urging Nigeria to reconsider the bill prohibiting same-sex marriage.
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Bernice Sandler’s talk at Women in Secularism 2012
The subtle unnoticed ways women and men are treated differently.
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Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose ‘apocalyptic’ threat
Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack.
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Religious exemption from Burger King uniform
Because God said Ashanti McShan has to wear a long skirt instead of trousers to work at Burger King.
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Website owner accuses Mary Beard
All that trash talk was her fault for being so wrong and she used the trash talk to deflect attention from her wrongitude.
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Mary Beard on Women’s Hour
Women are always told to shut up about the abuse or they’ll only make it worse. Sorry, mate; not on.
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Sherry Rehman accused of “blasphemy”
The petition claims that Pakistan’s ambassador to the US committed a blasphemous act two years ago when she criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in a TV interview.