With the Muslim Brotherhood targeting a big score in a parliamentary election, Saadawi says women must move fast to secure their rights.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
BBC live on attacks in Norway 
Jul 22nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Norwegian police say seven killed and two badly wounded in Oslo; unconfirmed reports of 20 killed at youth camp.… Read the rest
al-Shabab maintain aid ban and deny famine
Jul 22nd, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They say UN reports of famine are “sheer propaganda”.… Read the rest
Ireland pulls the scab off
Jul 21st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland’s brightest and most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors.”… Read the rest
Archbish Diarmuid Martin shunned by colleagues
Jul 21st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Irish bishops complain that Archbishop Martin has become “obsessed” about child abuse; he should be indifferent like them.… Read the rest
King’s Torah justifies killing non-Jews
Jul 21st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The fifth chapter, entitled “Murder of non-Jews in a time of war” has been widely quoted in the Israeli media.… Read the rest
Dutch parliament bans religious slaughter
Jul 21st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bans any form of slaughter where animals are not stunned prior to killing; Jewish and Muslim “community leaders” squawk “discrimination.”… Read the rest
Faith and the Big Society debate at House of Commons
Jul 21st, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Expert witnesses: the “chief Rabbi,” the bishop of Leicester, PR guy from the Catholic Archbishop’s office, and Andrew Copson of the BHA.… Read the rest
Jennifer Ouellette on a cold climate for women
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“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.”… Read the rest
Maryam Namazie’s sharia speech at House of Commons
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sharia’s family code is a pillar of women’s oppression in countries under Islamic laws.… Read the rest
Irish PM tells the truth about the Vatican
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’ to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’.” … Read the rest
Sharia as “legal pluralism” in Australia
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“They have a right to enjoy their own culture and the culture of people who share their culture.” Srsly. … Read the rest
Marc Hauser resigns from Harvard
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He was on leave after an internal investigation found him guilty of eight counts of scientific misconduct.… Read the rest
Furious Purpose on using a sexist slur
Jul 20th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The name is Watson, not Twatson. “If you give me ‘Twatson’, you show yourself to be a clueless sexist dimwit.”… Read the rest
Brum city council pays for Catholic statue
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
£25,000 of public money paid for a statue of “the Blessed John Henry Newman,” reports the sycophantic BBC.… Read the rest
Jesus appears on Walmart receipt!
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bearing a disconcerting resemblance to bin Laden. Whatevs.… Read the rest
Man whipped with cable for drinking alcohol
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Three men allegedly held him down while a fourth allegedly lashed him about 40 times over half an hour. In Sydney, Australia.… Read the rest
“Shariah controlled zone” posters in London
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Posters have appeared at council housing blocks in Tower Hamlets: “Islamic rules enforced.” Music is one of the banned items.… Read the rest
New entry in “my Jesus is bigger” contest
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The one in Lima is 123 feet, so the new one in Split will be 129 feet, so ha.… Read the rest
Cristina Odone explains why archbish fired Pitcher
Jul 19th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s because Pitcher made a joke about the archbish sexually assaulting Odone at a drinks party.… Read the rest
