There is some dumbing down, but there’s also broader access to education.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Sharia Tribunals Divide Muslim Canadians
Homa Arjomand says Sharia in Canada is one of her worst nightmares come true.
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Ziauddin Sardar on Changes in Islam
In Morocco, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, sharia is being reformed.
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Baby Prostitutes
Are girls being taught to make themselves sexy at ever-younger ages? Stupid question.
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What if it’s Neither Narrative nor Meta-narrative?
Terry Eagleton on life, the universe and everything.
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Gangsta Culture Not All That Educational
‘Street culture will become a deadly virus robbing millions of their potential’
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No, Black Gays are not Happy With Murder Music
Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group has launched Declaration Against Homophobia in Music.
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Utopia, Freedom, the State, 4th and final part
Marxism and the central values and intellectual resources of liberalism.
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Higher Pay for Teaching While Black?
Should first offence be free unless a gun or knife is involved?
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Inclusion for Gunless First Offense Risky
What teachers are expected to put up with in the name of inclusion…
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Response to Atheist in Florida
There are others, but they keep their heads down. Maybe if we all kept our heads up…?
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Al-Muhajiroun and its ‘Spiritual Leader’
There are two types of terrorism: the type praised by the almighty Allah and the type dispraised.
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Samira Bellil 1973-2004
Her memoir of gang-rape helped movement fighting for rights of Muslim women and girls.
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Guardian on Samira Bellil
‘Ni Putes Ni Soumises’ says Bellil fought against barbarous machoism and violence.
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‘Sorry, that question is too essentialist.’
Irfan Khawaja says ‘essentialist’ claims about Islam should not be discouraged.