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UK Muslim jailed for keeping his wife in a state of slavery

UK Muslim jailed for keeping his wife in a state of slavery

In what is believed to be the first trial of its kind in Britain, Safraz Ahmed, 34, above, pleaded guilty to keeping his wife, Sumara Iram, in domestic servitude, subjecting her to ‘violence, intimidation, aggression and misery’. According to this report, Ahmed was jailed for two years and was given an additional eight-month sentence for assault […]

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Cameron the theocrat
Opinion Mon 28 Mar / Christianity / 3

Cameron the theocrat

Let’s take a look at the last few days in Atrocities Against Random People Going About Their Lives. Sunday it’s Lahore, Pakistan, where a bomb went off at a crowded park, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. There is speculation that Christian families out for the Easter weekend may have been the […]

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All our Easter Days

All our Easter Days

JAMES M ALEXANDER’s reflections on a ‘tarted up’ Christian Easter was  first published in the March, 1975, edition of the Freethinker.  … to misquote Shakespeare, for all humanity celebrates this annual rebirth of nature. Down the avenues of time, from the childhood of the race, has come similar rites of fertility and fecundity, worship of […]