AN Orthodox Jewish couple are suing their neighbours in a block of Bournemouth flats over motion sensors which automatically turn on the lights in the communal hallway. The pair of religious dolts – Dena and Gordon Coleman – insist that the system, installed to cut down lighting costs at Embassy Court, makes them prisoners in [...]
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BACK in May, we reported on the case of 41-year-old Leilani Neumann, who was convicted in Wisconsin of second-degree reckless homicide for failing to rush her 11-year-old daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann, to a doctor when she fell ill. Instead, she decided to pray for the girl who subsequently died of untreated diabetes in March 2008. [...]
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A SINGAPORE court has sentenced a Christian couple to eight weeks in jail each for distributing “seditious or objectionable” publications to Muslims. According to this report, Ong Kian Cheong, 50, and his wife, Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 46, had distributed two booklets by the ludicrous American Christian fundamentalist Jack Chick, which, according to the judge, [...]
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AN ANGRY mob of Muslims parents converged on a school in Blackburn, Lancashire, this week to demand the sacking of a secretary they believed was a man in a hijab. According to this report, the target of their outrage was Shifa Patel, whose woes began when photographs of her with short hair and wearing a [...]
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A FORMER Roman Catholic priest who claimed he had given an 11-year-old boy “anatomy lessons” has been jailed by an Australian judge for indecent assault. Desmond Laurence Gannon’s prosecution was his fifth for abusing youngsters. He was previously convicted in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2003 for other indecent assaults committed between 1958 and 1976, but [...]
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IFTIKHAR Ahmad, of the London School of Islamics, has launched yet another broadside against the British educational system, accusing it of “cultural fascism”. Ahmad, who is almost adept as Stephen “Birdshit” Green when it comes to issuing foolish press statements, caught our attention yesterday with an email headed Muslim Children and Sex Education. In it [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
