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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Dutch Immigration Minister Orders Imams to Leave
Justice ministry said imams tried to recruit Muslims for Jihad.
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Alarm About African Boys ‘Sacrificed’
Police report says trafficked children are being branded witches by pastors.
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Theological Thickness
Christian theology has its own sources, insights, methods, and internal logic.
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Public Relations Disaster for Pakistan
Perhaps the work of ‘more loyal than the king brigade’ around Musharraf.
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Evangelical Bullying at Air Force Academy
‘Focus on the Family’ across the street, New Life church up the hill.
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Microsoft Criticized Over China Censorship
‘Human rights’ forbidden in subject line but allowed in text.
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Pakistan Lifts Travel Restrictions on Rape Victim
US State Department and human rights groups objected.
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Pakistan Lifts Travel Ban on Mukhtar Mai
Mai welcomed decision, had been planning to travel to US at invitation of human rights group.
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Today Reporter Tells How He Got the Story
Why Sita Kisanga agreed to talk to BBC about the ‘witchcraft’ child abuse case.
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Woman Ordered to Marry Rapist
Indian woman ordered by Muslim council of community elders to marry father-in-law.
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India Muslim Divorce Code Disappoints Women
Code silent on minimum marriage age for women, triple talaq still there.
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Vatican Wins in Referendum Boycott
Failure of attempt to liberalise law on IVF treatment called ‘the great revenge.’
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Mukhtaran Bibi on ‘Exit Control List’
Human rights activists accuse government of trying to avoid bad publicity.
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Victim Locked Up While Rapists Walk Free
‘This tactic of silencing the awkward truth is nothing new.’
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Foucault and the Ayatollah
Foucault’s search for an alternative that was absolutely other to liberal democracy.
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Excerpt from Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
‘By “Islamic government,” nobody in Iran means a political regime in which the clerics would have a role of supervision or control.’