Her memoir of gang-rape helped movement fighting for rights of Muslim women and girls.… 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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Guardian on Samira Bellil 
Sep 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Ni Putes Ni Soumises’ says Bellil fought against barbarous machoism and violence.… Read the rest
‘Sorry, that question is too essentialist.’
Sep 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Irfan Khawaja says ‘essentialist’ claims about Islam should not be discouraged.… Read the rest
MMR Vaccine Safe
Sep 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Finds UK study of more than 5000 children. … Read the rest
‘Healers’ Licensed in South Africa
Sep 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They’ll be barred from treating fatal diseases. … Read the rest
Drug Trials ‘Distorted’
Sep 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Eleven medical journals have told researchers to register trials at the start so unflattering results cannot be covered up.… Read the rest
Powell Calls it Genocide
Sep 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
US Secretary of State says killings in Darfur constitute genocide.… Read the rest
Powell Goes One Step Farther
Sep 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘This was a coordinated effort, not just random violence.’… Read the rest
Utopia, Freedom, the State, part 2
Sep 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Norman Geras discusses three models.… Read the rest
Serbia Thinks Better of It
Sep 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Government reverses ban on teaching evolution in schools.… Read the rest
Because Serbia Doesn’t Have Enough Problems?
Sep 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Education minister orders schools to stop teaching evolution.… Read the rest
Twenty Tiny Little Books
Sep 8th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And every single one is by some dead European guy.… Read the rest
Predictable, Parochial, and Philistine
Sep 8th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why no Xenophon, Suetonius, Kyd, Tasso, Huysmans, Cozzens?… Read the rest
Utopia, Freedom, the State
Sep 8th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Norman Geras on the Marxian idea of a future stateless utopia.… Read the rest
‘Homophobic’ artists dropped
Sep 8th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
MOBO (music of black origin) nominations withdrawn after apologies were not forthcoming.… Read the rest
Does Truth Matter?
Sep 8th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Unswerving allegiance to what you believe is dogmatism, not truth.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen is All For Liberal Guilt
Sep 7th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But a law against religious hatred is an absurd idea.… Read the rest
‘Spiritual Leader’ Endorses Hostage Taking
Sep 7th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Omar Bakri Mohammed says hostage taking okay if carried out by terrorists with a just cause.… Read the rest
Petition to End Special Status for Religion in EU
Sep 7th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Special respect for religion disturbs the equilibrium of democracy.… Read the rest
The Apparent High Road of Pluralism
Sep 7th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Tolerance’ ends up as intolerance for rational discussion of religion.… Read the rest
