RELIGIOUS right-wingers unhappily anticipated a bumpy ride when Barack Obama won the keys to the White House, but it’s unlikely that they would have guessed just how soon they would need to buckle their safety belts. In just under a week in office, Obama has infuriated conservatives in three areas – by reversing the imbecile [...]
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THEÂ Religion of Peace has been wailing about “intolerance” and uttering veiled threats again this week against us ignorant infidels who can’t seem to get it through our thick skulls that Islam – damn it! – isn’t all about terrorism, murder, mayhem and insane behaviour. Here’s a flavour of what was said in Pakistan at [...]
THE news this week that the Amsterdam Court of Appeal has ordered the prosecution of Dutch MP Geert Wilders for incitement to hatred has sent shock waves throughout the civilised world. The court ruled that a criminal prosecution of Wilders for his film Fitna – which exposes the Koran as essentially a murder manual – [...]
HOLOCAUST denier Richard Williamson, 68, is one of four bishops who have had the excommunications lifted by Pope Ratzinger this week. The four bishops were excommunicated 20 years ago after they were consecrated by the late ultraconservative Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre without papal consent — a move the Vatican said at the time was an act [...]
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TODAY a new word enters our vocabulary: Pallium. So what’s a pallium when it’s at home? Wikipedia has the answer: The pallium, in its present Western form, is a narrow band, “three fingers broad,” woven of white lamb’s wool from sheep raised by Trappist monks, with a loop in the centre resting on the shoulders [...]
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A MAD Muslim cleric, from Coberg in Australia, has caused outrage by suggesting in a video posted on the internet that there is no such thing as rape in marriage. Samir Abu Hamza said despite Australian rape laws it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
