While most aid workers hunker down in Kabul compounds, she’s travelled every region of the country, from Jalalabad to Herat making contacts with locals.
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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Christian pastors tell people to stop taking HIV meds
They obey, and die.
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Child abuse claims at UK madrassas
Some local authorities said community pressure had led families to withdraw complaints.
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US has worst child abuse record in industrialised world
Between 1,770 and 2,500 children are killed every year in the US.
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Child death by maltreatment in the US
Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed by family members, nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Spain’s stolen babies
“Doctors, nuns?” she says, almost in horror. “I couldn’t accuse them of lying. This was Franco’s Spain. A dictatorship. Even now we Spaniards tend not to question authority.”
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St Paul’s School replaces chapel with science classrooms
Vicars express shock-horror.
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Senegal moves to end FGM
The movement to end genital cutting is spreading in Senegal at a quickening pace through the very ties of family and ethnicity that used to entrench it.
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Playing chicken with people’s lives
The county prosecutor, who initially offloaded these cases onto the city government, has said his office will continue to handle these cases, though with less staff.
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Topeka decriminalizes domestic violence to save money
18 people have been arrested on domestic violence charges since September and released without charges because no agency is accepting new cases.
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NSS challenges free parking for church goers
Worshippers at three churches do not pay to use two public car parks on a Sunday
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Why do televangelists ask for money?
Why don’t they just pray for it, instead?
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YouGov–Cambridge survey of British attitudes
79% agreed and 11% disagreed that religion is a cause of much misery and conflict in the world today.
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Edwin Madunagu on Humanism and its enemies
Our interest in Leo Igwe’s seminars was strong on account of its specific subject: rescuing, and defending the rights of, children accused of “witchcraft”.
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Eric MacDonald on Julian Baggini on religion and science
Religion can’t give up on the hows of the universe, since, from the religious point of view, the hows just are answered in terms of whys.
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Further detail on “Obedient Wives” story
‘In a 115-page book titled “Islamic Sex, Fighting Jews to Return Islamic Sex to the World,” the group calls on Muslim husbands to have sex with all their wives simultaneously.’
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Obedient Wives Club of Malaysia publishes Islamic sex guide
In June the club’s vice-president advised women to behave like a ”first-class whore” while in the company of their husbands.
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Finally, a game for girls
All about clothes, shopping, dieting, flirting, and hairstyles. What else do they care about, after all?
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Tennessee mayor calls secularists “terrorists”
“We don’t have people of that belief here and if we do they’re not going to raise that kind of ruckus for the rest of the town.” Gee I wonder why.