In Morocco, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, sharia is being reformed.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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Aaronovitch Reviews Furedi
There is some dumbing down, but there’s also broader access to education.
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Another Call for Reform
Irshad Manji’s book.
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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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Is Islam Reforming?
Only within limits set by mullahs. But that’s a start.
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Human Development and Capability Association
Launched September 6.
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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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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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Atheist in Florida
Frightening but true.
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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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Multiple Intelligences
Athletic, interpersonal, conversational, fainting in coils…
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Not Extremists, Activists, Protestors; Terrorists
Campaigns of violence and intimidation to liberate guinea pigs.
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Scott McLemee’s ‘Zizek Watch’ Online At Last
Fisting, Zapatistas, Hegel’s concept of the beautiful soul, surfboarding, all in one essay.
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Utopia, Freedom, the State, part 3
Attention to impulses there are in human beings to seize advantage over others.
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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.