ABDULHAKIM Muhammad, 23, who has been charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting centre, said yesterday that he did not consider the killing murder because US military action in the Middle East justified his actions. A second soldier was injured in the attack on June 1. Said Muhammad: I do feel [...]
A LOOPY band of Christians in Wisconsin is suing a library for $120,000, claiming they had been traumatised by a book which they say is “explicitly vulgar, racial, and anti-Christian”. According to this report, they are also demanding the right to “publicly burn or destroy by other means” the novel for young adults – Baby [...]
A YOUNG Muslim man, motivated by a “perverted notion of honour”, has been jailed for in Canada for the murder of his 20-year-old sister and her fiancé, 23, in the early hours of September 19, 2006 while the couple sat in a parked car. Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford told an expressionless Hasibullah Sadiqi, [...]
Continue reading about Muslim jailed for the ‘honour’ killing of his sister and her fiance
BECAUSE so many Muslim men have their first sexual encounters with other males, they are inclined to bugger their wives out of ignorance, says Wedad Lootah, who has caused outrage in the Middle East with a frank book entitled Top Secret: Sexual Guidance for Married Couples. In her book, published earlier this year, the Dubai [...]
WHO, I wonder, remembers Anita Bryant, the American singer who embarked on a Save our Children campaign in the 70s? Southern Baptist Bryant shot to international prominence as a result of her opposition to gay rights in Florida and later elsewhere – and in 1977 was rewarded for her efforts with a very public pie [...]
Continue reading about Christian publishing ‘is down the toilet’
HERE’S an amusing twist to the same-sex adoption row we blogged about earlier today: a pair of gay penguins at Germany’s Bremerhaven zoo have successfully incubated an unwanted egg, and are now raising the chick. What’s more, neither of the foster dads is bound for Hell. Freethinker reader Dr Robert Stovold informs us that: I [...]
Continue reading about Bad news for Catholics, good news for penguins
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
