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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Beautiful Girlhood v. Courageous Boyhood
Boys are to remain “steadfast in their conviction” while girls are to guard against “anything that would rob them of purity.”
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Adopted child, 8, dies of exposure and malnutrition
A witness told investigators that the Williams got their ideas for the disciplinary measures from a book, “How to Train Up Your Child,” by Michael Pearl.
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Can al-Shabab retake Mogadishu?
Probably not, but it can keep on killing people.
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Religious freedom in Turkey
“Turkey may look like a secular state on paper, but in terms of international law it is actually a Sunni Islamic state,” a leader of the country’s Alevi minority charged.
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Democracy and secularism in Turkey
A majority of Turks, Sunni Muslims, overtly or covertly believe that they should be “more equal” than the others because they constitute the majority.
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Sigmund on an unholy alliance
Between “the Iona Institute” and Brendan O’Neill of Spiked. Reactionary Catholicism pairs up with reactive ex-Trotskyist libertarian posturing.
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Turkish cartoonist to be put on trial for teasing ‘God’
Istanbul chief public prosecutor charged cartoonist Bahadir Baruter with “insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population.”
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Rising atheism in US puts religious right on the defensive
Most experts agree that the number of secular Americans has probably doubled in the past three decades.
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Pakistan’s blasphemy laws: even judges fear for their lives
The mixing of religion and politics has long troubled Pakistan, but over the past 30 years that dangerous cocktail has been spiked by the army’s policy of nurturing extremists.
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Israel: a victory for separation of state and religion
“Israel is the only country in the Western world in which Jews don’t have freedom of religion.”
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Why “we” should not let “them” drive cars
“If you start now to let women drive, let them go wherever they want, let them do whatever they want, Saudi Arabia will be like New York.”
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The barmaid cites the Dunning Kruger effect
In telling the boys they don’t know enough to realize how little they know.
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Israel court grants request to register ‘without religion’
“The court granted legitimacy to every person to live by their conscience in this land.”
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Why Are British Muslim leaders silent about Nadarkhani?
Nothing from the Muslim Council of Britain. Nothing from the Federation of Student Islamic Societies. Nothing from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee.
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Are Christians really being persecuted in the UK?
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Mehdi Hasan on Iran’s death sentence on Youcef Nadarkhani
The silence from the world’s Muslims – especially the UK’s usually voluble Muslim organisations and self-appointed “community leaders” – has been shameful.
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Oregon couple found guilty in faith-healing trial
A couple who prayed and rubbed olive oil on their dying infant rather than seek medical care was convicted Thursday of manslaughter.
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Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
Using the internet and an online magazine called Inspire, Awlaki encouraged his
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Life for Saudi women is a joke
In 18 months a Saudi woman can be a member of parliament – providing that her male guardian allows her to and she finds a man to drive her there.
