THE FUNERAL took place earlier today of a radical Detroit mosque leader who was shot in an exchange of gunfire with FBI agents this week. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, was fatally shot inside a suburban warehouse on Wednesday after firing at agents while resisting arrest. According to this report, the FBI wanted him on charges [...]
Continue reading about ‘Caring’ mosque leader dies in a shoot-out with FBI agents in Detroit
THERE’S an amusing little poll over at the Paliban Daily today, inspired by a lengthy bit of barmpottery in the Christian magazine, Charisma. The poll asks “What festive Halloween activity do YOU want to try?” And it offers this choice of answers: I’m going to sacrifice a baby! Sex with a demon sounds fun, though [...]
Continue reading about So, what are you doing this Halloween?
THE Secular Coalition for America says it is “thrilled” that the House of Representatives has decided to remove language found in all three draft bills that would require private and public health care plans to cover the spiritual needs of individuals with religious objections to medical treatment. The House this week released their version of [...]
PAULINEÂ Howe, the perfectly coiffed, tea-sipping old harridan who expressed fear and indignation over a visit from the police following her letter to Norwich Council expressing her detestation of homosexuals, is now even more alarmed. For last night, Channel 4 News indirectly linked her with a rise of violent attacks on gay people in the [...]
Continue reading about Christian Institute outraged over Pauline Howe ‘slur’ on Channel 4 TV
THE HYSTERICAL Islam for the UK website, which revealed recently that Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar Square, London, would be trashed to make way for a hideous clock when Islam “gains glorious dominion over the UK”, has now unveiled its plans for Buckingham Palace: it will become a mosque and a “detention centre” for “prisoners of [...]
Continue reading about Buck House will become a mosque when Britain finally ‘succumbs’ to Islam
TWO men – David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48 – were charged in Chicago yesterday with plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005 sparked violent riots around the Muslim world. Documents filed by federal authorities said Headley confessed to the federal agents that he conducted surveillance [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 