Homosexuality is Haram and END of Discussion. U cant question the Creator. HE said its Haram … there is no such thing as homosexual Muslim. A FEW days after reading this quote on a discussion board at the newly-launched I’m Halal Islamic search engine, I was handed a copy of yesterday’s Guardian’s Weekend magazine, which [...]
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ATHEIST author Phillip Pullman, whose excellent His Dark Materials trilogy sent the Vatican into a tailspin, looks set to cause fresh controversy with The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, due to be published next Easter. According to Will Heaven (cute name for a Catholic Herald correspondent, huh?), the book – which argues that [...]
CHRISTIAN homophobes in Texas had better avoid travelling along Interstate-30, just east of Fort Worth, or risk an attack of the vapours. Why? Because of the appearance of a series of billboards which use the Bible to promote tolerance of gay people. One sensitive religiot who spotted a billboard containing a pro-gay message was Christine [...]
EARLIER this month The Telegraph reported that a new search engine – I’m Halal – had been launched to protect Muslims from “offensive” and “inappropriate” websites. I’m Halal’s founder, Reza Sardeha, said he got the idea after friends complained that the more popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, were flagging up naughty stuff. First [...]
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THE news this week that the US military has appointed its first-ever Buddhist chaplain – former Baptist pastor Thomas Dyer from Memphis, Tennessee – highlights attempts being made by the US army to provide for the “spiritual needs” of military personnel from a growing number of faith groups. But critics, according to a US Today [...]
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SAYED Pervez Kambaksh, 24, the Afghan student sentenced to death for the “crime” of promoting women’s rights, has been freed. But in the same week that he gained his freedom, Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese journalist who was among 13 women arrested for wearing trousers on July 3 in a raid by the public order police [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
