Her memoir of gang-rape helped movement fighting for rights of Muslim women and girls.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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.
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MMR Vaccine Safe
Finds UK study of more than 5000 children.
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‘Healers’ Licensed in South Africa
They’ll be barred from treating fatal diseases.
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Drug Trials ‘Distorted’
Eleven medical journals have told researchers to register trials at the start so unflattering results cannot be covered up.
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Because Serbia Doesn’t Have Enough Problems?
Education minister orders schools to stop teaching evolution.
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Powell Calls it Genocide
US Secretary of State says killings in Darfur constitute genocide.
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Powell Goes One Step Farther
‘This was a coordinated effort, not just random violence.’
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Utopia, Freedom, the State, part 2
Norman Geras discusses three models.
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Serbia Thinks Better of It
Government reverses ban on teaching evolution in schools.
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Twenty Tiny Little Books
And every single one is by some dead European guy.
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Predictable, Parochial, and Philistine
Why no Xenophon, Suetonius, Kyd, Tasso, Huysmans, Cozzens?
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Utopia, Freedom, the State
Norman Geras on the Marxian idea of a future stateless utopia.
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‘Homophobic’ artists dropped
MOBO (music of black origin) nominations withdrawn after apologies were not forthcoming.
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Does Truth Matter?
Unswerving allegiance to what you believe is dogmatism, not truth.
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Nick Cohen is All For Liberal Guilt
But a law against religious hatred is an absurd idea.
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‘Spiritual Leader’ Endorses Hostage Taking
Omar Bakri Mohammed says hostage taking okay if carried out by terrorists with a just cause.
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Petition to End Special Status for Religion in EU
Special respect for religion disturbs the equilibrium of democracy.
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The Apparent High Road of Pluralism
‘Tolerance’ ends up as intolerance for rational discussion of religion.