Ayaan Hirsi Ali cites widespread hidden violence against Muslim women.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Human Rights Apartheid
Where only black people can condemn black homophobia.
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Aaronovitch on Secularism, Rights, and Everything
Funny how religion is all about restraining women…
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Mundir Badr Haloum on Islam and Terrorism
Belief in legal rulings that forbid thought and permit killing.
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Militant Pro-hunt Groups Target Labour MPs
Animal welfare groups have also been targeted.
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Compare Kerry and Bush on Science
The candidates answer fifteen questions.
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Discover Compares Bush and Kerry on Science
Feints and winks are one thing, action is another.
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Hitchens on Knowing Who is the Real Enemy
‘The world these fascists want to create is one of constant submission and servility.’
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Steven Shapin Arrives at Harvard
Shapin’s work is more controversial than article acknowledges.
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Tom Paulin on Edward Said
Compares him to Hazlitt, which is high praise.
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14 Years in Vegetative State
Florida Supreme Court rules Gov. Bush’s intervention in coma case illegal.
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Nigerian Teacher Flees Angry Students
Christian teacher has gone into hiding in northern Nigerian city after offending Muslim pupils.
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Howard Gardner on Personality Tests
They are popular but not reliable or valid. Uh oh.
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Atheism is Career Suicide for US Politicians
Moratorium on God talk might level the playing field.
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Focusing on the Wrong Enemy
So much noise about Bush compared to so little about beheaders and other undemocratic types.
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The Booker Shortlist
Dangor, Hall, Hollinghurst, Mitchell, Tóibín, Woodward.
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Second Hostage Reported Murdered
Message on Islamist website claims al-Zarqawi’s group has killed second US hostage in Iraq.
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Labeling, Euphemism, Mistakes
Should terrorists be called militants? Should fugitives be called terrorists? Depends.
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Edward Skidelsky Reviews Julian Baggini
‘If value is not cosmic, then it is social.’ Really?
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Whither Theory?
Theory, theory, theory, high theory, theory, theory.