The Toronto Star sent a reporter who has for years celebrated the hijab and niqab to cover the trial of her father and brother.… Read the rest
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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Gita Sahgal’s speech at One Law for All rally 
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Beware when you hear talk of balancing of rights. Generally, it a code for denying women rights.… Read the rest
Texas Republicans go for broke
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Make gay marriage a felony! Legalize whuppin’ in public schools! Make Obama a non-citizen in Texas! Yee-ha.… Read the rest
Jerry Coyne on one-sided dialogue
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many people have discarded their faith because its tenets were either philosophically insupportable or in conflict with the palpable facts about the world.… Read the rest
Israel: Haredi schooling is under pressure
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All they study is the Talmud.… Read the rest
French world cup coach relies on astrology
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How’s that going for him?… Read the rest
Pakistan considering death penalty for Facebook CEO
Jun 22nd, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pakistani penal code makes “defiling Muhammed” a crime punishable by death. And that applies globally?… Read the rest
Texas Republicans want to criminalize “sodomy”
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Also want to make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney incites new round of atheist-bashing
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“I rose and posed a question…how will you foster dialogue with the New Atheists?”… Read the rest
Teach children the bible and protect them from ethics!
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Once kids have a strong grounding in what “the gospel is all about, they won’t be so easily falling for the ethics material.”… Read the rest
We notice things selectively
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We don’t see everything there is, and we need to keep that in mind.… Read the rest
Results of Cherie Blair inquiry ‘were covered up’
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Office for Judicial Complaints told the public one thing, the NSS another.… Read the rest
Margaret Drabble on Jane Austen
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Finds Virginia Woolf on Austen almost as imbecilic as E M Forster ditto.… Read the rest
Julian Baggini reviews Marilynne Robinson
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What might look like subtlety is too often plain sloppiness.… Read the rest
FGM in Northern Iraq
Jun 21st, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Girls who hear the screams and try to run away are dragged back for their turn.… Read the rest
Zakir Naik to headline Toronto conference
Jun 20th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In videos on YouTube, Naik advocates death to homosexuals and to Muslims who leave the faith.… Read the rest
Leo Igwe on caste in Igboland, Nigeria
Jun 20th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nwadiala regard themselves as people of ‘pure blood’ and Osu as people of ‘impure blood’.… Read the rest
London council drops prayer for poetry
Jun 20th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Telegraph claims, “The vast majority of councils choose to start meetings with Christian Prayers.”… Read the rest
Ayala says you can have it all
Jun 20th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“If humans came about by evolution, then the Bible isn’t wrong when it says that humans were created in the image of God.”… Read the rest
Clumsy cover-up in Cherie Blair case
Jun 20th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Office for Judicial Complaints sent its letter to the NSS second class.… Read the rest
