With the Muslim Brotherhood targeting a big score in a parliamentary election, Saadawi says women must move fast to secure their rights.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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BBC live on attacks in Norway
Norwegian police say seven killed and two badly wounded in Oslo; unconfirmed reports of 20 killed at youth camp.
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al-Shabab maintain aid ban and deny famine
They say UN reports of famine are “sheer propaganda”.
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Ireland pulls the scab off
“Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland’s brightest and most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors.”
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Archbish Diarmuid Martin shunned by colleagues
Irish bishops complain that Archbishop Martin has become “obsessed” about child abuse; he should be indifferent like them.
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King’s Torah justifies killing non-Jews
The fifth chapter, entitled “Murder of non-Jews in a time of war” has been widely quoted in the Israeli media.
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Dutch parliament bans religious slaughter
Bans any form of slaughter where animals are not stunned prior to killing; Jewish and Muslim “community leaders” squawk “discrimination.”
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Faith and the Big Society debate at House of Commons
Expert witnesses: the “chief Rabbi,” the bishop of Leicester, PR guy from the Catholic Archbishop’s office, and Andrew Copson of the BHA.
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Jennifer Ouellette on a cold climate for women
“You’re going to go through life thinking girls don’t like you cuz you’re a nerd, when really it’s because you’re an asshole.”
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Maryam Namazie’s sharia speech at House of Commons
Sharia’s family code is a pillar of women’s oppression in countries under Islamic laws.
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Irish PM tells the truth about the Vatican
“The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’ to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’.”
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Sharia as “legal pluralism” in Australia
“They have a right to enjoy their own culture and the culture of people who share their culture.” Srsly.
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Marc Hauser resigns from Harvard
He was on leave after an internal investigation found him guilty of eight counts of scientific misconduct.
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Furious Purpose on using a sexist slur
The name is Watson, not Twatson. “If you give me ‘Twatson’, you show yourself to be a clueless sexist dimwit.”
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Brum city council pays for Catholic statue
£25,000 of public money paid for a statue of “the Blessed John Henry Newman,” reports the sycophantic BBC.
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Jesus appears on Walmart receipt!
Bearing a disconcerting resemblance to bin Laden. Whatevs.
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Man whipped with cable for drinking alcohol
Three men allegedly held him down while a fourth allegedly lashed him about 40 times over half an hour. In Sydney, Australia.
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“Shariah controlled zone” posters in London
Posters have appeared at council housing blocks in Tower Hamlets: “Islamic rules enforced.” Music is one of the banned items.
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New entry in “my Jesus is bigger” contest
The one in Lima is 123 feet, so the new one in Split will be 129 feet, so ha.
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Cristina Odone explains why archbish fired Pitcher
It’s because Pitcher made a joke about the archbish sexually assaulting Odone at a drinks party.