A CONTESTANT on Israel’s version of the hit reality show Survivor has sparked outrage among the country’s Arab population for naming his shoe “Mohammed” while mocking a former contestant. The incident, according to this report, comes a few days after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued a public apology for a skit on another of the [...]
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IN the UK today there exists: A wider prejudice that sees religious faith as a problem to be contained rather than a social good to be cherished and respected, and which properly and necessarily has a public as well as a private dimension. Those are the words of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, who declared in a [...]
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TROUBLED by attacks on free expression by groups wanting to shield Islam from criticism or scrutiny, free speech advocates are today unveiling a campaign for an “international First Amendment”. The initiative by the International Free Press Society (IFPS) is being launched in Washington, DC, with Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician in attendance. The event incorporates [...]
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THE news today that a Muslim bus driver bagged himself £30,000 in damages for the way the Sun reported on the manner in which he engaged in a spot of rug-butting in his vehicle got us wondering what other bizarre places Sons of the Prophet choose to prostrate themselves before Allah. And, to our astonishment, [...]
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LABOUR life peer Lord Ahmed, who threatened to muster 10, 000 Muslims to protest against Geert Wilders if the Dutch politician was allowed into the House of Lords to attend a screening of his film Fitna, has been jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving. Ahmed pleaded guilty to the charge at Sheffield Crown Court. [...]
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HOW nice! The Catholic Church – arguably the world’s biggest single contributor to the spread of HIV/AIDS through its continued opposition to condom use – is to create a patron saint for those afflicted by the disease. According to this report, the unofficial patron saint of those with HIV/AIDS – Rev Damien de Veuster – [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
