NO action is to be taken against a photographer accused of “blasphemy” and “trespassing” at St Michael Penkivel Church in Cornwall following an “illegal” photoshoot featuring “semi-naked models cavorting around a graveyard and inside the church”. One photo, according to this report, featured two models, called Kate and Bex, fondling each other on a cloth-draped [...]
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FURTHER evidence of Islam’s disconnection from the real world emerges this week from Malaysia. A report on this mainly Muslim country’s estimated population of 20,000 transsexuals highlights the plight of a group which – thanks to a fatwa passed in 1983 – are now officially not allowed to exist. “Influential Islamic cleric” Harussani Zakaria, who [...]
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THIS summer saw Iraq ban smoking in public buildings in a bid to cut down on the number of smoking related deaths in the country. According to the Economist, smoking kills an average of 55 Iraqis a day, while only ten a day die as a result of terrorist shootings of bombings. Fag-hating Islamists are [...]
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THE decision to stage a “grandiose public funeral celebrating the life of pro-abortion extremist Senator Ted Kennedy” has caused a rift in the Catholic Church in North America, according to LifeSite News. The frothing fundamentalist site claims that several prominent Catholic priests in the pro-life movement as well as other Catholic pro-life leaders have slammed [...]
CHRISTIAN parents who objected to their children being taught about other religions in a mandatory new Quebec school course have suffered a serious setback with a ruling this week that the teachings do not infringe their religious freedoms. Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Dubois dismissed a bid by parents in Drummondville, who said the course [...]
I HAD no idea until last night that King George V had been fast-tracked to oblivion when, in 1935, he was given a lethal injection in the neck. This fact was revealed when prominent British euthanasia supporter, Dr Michael Irwin – addressing a packed meeting of the Brighton & Hove Humanist Society – provided a [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
