A HARROWING report of sex abuse carried out in the Muslim community in the UK was broadcast tonight by BBC Radio 4, which indicated that a number of imams have been guilty of keeping such abuse a secret from the authorities. You can hear Rob Broomby’s report here. The report revealed that a dossier, containing [...]
DID you know that Pope Ratzinger has an older brother? Yep, Georg Ratzinger – about to turn 85 – is a prelate in Regensburg, and right now he is about as popular as a chlamydia, thanks to a planned 100,000 euro birthday bash which is to be paid for with money raised from Catholic taxpayers [...]
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OH DEAR, here we go again …. Four months after devout Christian homophobe Lillian Ladele won a religious discrimination case following her dismissal for refusing to conduct same-sex civil unions, a relationship counsellor is taking the national counselling service, Relate, to an industrial tribunal. Gary McFarlane, a father of two who has worked for the [...]
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TIME was when any group in our society which misbehaved or flagrantly broke the rules could expect a robust reaction from the forces of law and order. Muslims, however, are an exception. In order to behave like normal, law-abiding citizens, they need shedloads of taxpayers’ money as an incentive. Or so the British government believes [...]
YOUTUBE, which has lately been getting a lot of flak from religious zealots, is standing its ground against outraged Catholics over a series of videos posted by a young Canadian. YouTube, however, “age-gated” his videos; you now have to be over 18 to watch them. Well, you could – until a few hours ago, when [...]
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ONE THING that always puzzles people in the West is why we allow mosques to proliferate in our own liberal democracies when Islamic countries forbid the establishment of churches, and the spread of other faiths in theirs. The answer’s simple, according to simpleton – pardon – prominent Muslim commentator Dr Zakir Naik: In our country [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 