A group dedicated to creating an Islamist dictatorship meets every weekend in Regent’s Park mosque.… 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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Voices of Disbelief Off to the Publishers 
Dec 1st, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Essays from 52 atheists including Baggini, Clark, Dacey, Grayling, Namazie, Edis, Law, Randi, Singer, Tatchell, Stenger.… Read the rest
Nicholas Kristof on Acid Attacks on Women
Dec 1st, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Acid attacks are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia.… Read the rest
Cincinnati Zoo Teams With Creationist Museum
Dec 1st, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
PZ Myers urges everyone to contact the zoo; write to their education, marketing and PR departments.… Read the rest
Johann Hari on Hip-hop Homophobia
Dec 1st, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A lot of stars are enraged closet-cases.… Read the rest
Johann Hari Talks to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dec 1st, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She has no time for what she sees as the ignorant, woolly Islam-is-peace message of Western liberals.… Read the rest
UN Reports Taliban is Stockpiling Opium
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In an effort to support prices and preserve a major source of financing for the insurgency.… Read the rest
Celebrity Terrorism
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mass murder in crowded railway stations and restaurants is easy, and it makes you famous.… Read the rest
Five Survivors
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘I crouched along with my customers in the restaurant shaking in fear.’… Read the rest
Kill Until the Last Breath
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Mumbai attacks were intended to kill 5,000 people.… Read the rest
Mumbai Doctors Say Victims Were Tortured
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details.’… Read the rest
Bush Races to Prevent Worker Safety
Nov 30th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New rule will make it much harder to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals on the job.… Read the rest
Bush Busy in Last Few Weeks in Office
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bush’s last-minute rules are focused, like a laser, on destroying US environmental standards.… Read the rest
Bush Moves May Endanger Endangered Species
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Proposed loosening controls on factory farm waste and letting power plants operate near national parks.… Read the rest
Religious Riots Kill Hundreds in Nigeria
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In Plateau State, Christians are regarded as being indigenous and Hausa-speaking Muslims the settlers.… Read the rest
At Least 172 Dead in Mumbai
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The gunmen killed everyone they could. The hostages were a sick joke, they were killed at the beginning. … Read the rest
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wal-Mart has successfully resisted unionization, but not crowds of shoppers.… Read the rest
Suketu Mehta Asks: Why Do They Hate Mumbai?
Nov 29th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Hindu and Muslim demagogues want the mobs to come out again in the streets, and slaughter one another in the name of God.’… Read the rest
Having a ‘Costless’ Conscience
Nov 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Delivering the people of Afghanistan back to the Taliban might not be a great outcome.… Read the rest
Bush Working at Breakneck Speed
Nov 28th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To weaken or reverse regulations that protect America’s wilderness and other tree-hugging stuff.… Read the rest
