IF YOU thought the Muslim world would be grateful that the Kaaba in Mecca is spared from destruction in Roland Emmerich’s latest doomsday movie, 2012, think again. A bunch of witless Muslims who go by the name of the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) have condemned the apocalyptic offering as “blasphemous” and is urging Muslims [...]
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THE needle on my irony meter leapt off the scale this morning when I read that Pope Ratzinger was praying for all young people who suffer. He addressed the issue of children during his weekly general audience as he marked the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the first [...]
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IT just goes from bad to worse for those poor, beleaguered Scientology nutsters. After the major hit they took in a court in France recently, and their loss of prominent member Paul Haggis, they are now licking their wounds from a mauling inflicted by an Australian politician. Senator Nick Xenophon, whose surname suggest that he [...]
THE war of words between atheists and religious believers has entered a new chapter with the launch of Northern Ireland’s first ever humanist advertising campaign. The British Humanist Association (BHA) yesterday unveiled a billboard with the slogan: Please Don’t Label Me. Let Me Grow Up And Choose For Myself. Located on one Belfast’s busiest routes, [...]
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A SYDNEY couple has withdrawn their two children from a public primary school, claiming their 11-year-old son was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan. Andrew Grigoriou complained to the school and to police after his son Antonios was chased and later assaulted by Muslim students after a confrontation over [...]
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YIPPEE! We have just learned that the man hired by a group of mad fundies to provide the lectern and mikes for their anti-gay hate fest in Washington on Monday neatly turned the tables on the crazies. Chuck Fabio donated the cash he earned from the evangelists to gay activists who turned out to counter [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
