WE have just learned that the loathsome Stephen “Birdshit” Green’s “victory” over Classic FM was pure wishful thinking. Green’s claim that CFM had pulled the advertising for Eric Idle’s Not the Messiah after a “deluge of complaints” from “distraught” Christians has been denied by the station’s Managing Director, Darren Henley. This we learned from one [...]
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THE tattered remains of the Pope’s reputation were further shredded today with a revelation in the New York Times that top Vatican officials – including Ratzinger himself Â- failed to defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys. Despite being repeatedly warned by several American bishops that failure to act on the [...]
IS THIS really far-right BNP leader Nick Griffin and deranged evangelist Rev George Hargreaves cosying up to one another and flashing scooped-out-brain smiles for the camera? Oh yes – and, what’s more, it has pride of place on the BNP website this week, which must come as a terrible shock to staunch upholders of “white [...]
ARTISTIC expression was dealt a blow yesterday when weak-kneed executives at Classic FM decided to end its promotion of Eric Idle’s show Not the Messiah. The show, which celebrates 40 years of Monty Python, was originally promoted on air and on the station’s website and was the subject of a competition for tickets to a [...]
A JUDICIAL review of Indonesia’s blasphemy law turned ugly yesterday when two members of two hard-line Islamic groups roughed up two lawyers acting for groups who want the law scrapped. According to this report, several members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Islamic Defenders Army (Laskar Pembela Islam) grabbed the lawyers and tried [...]
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A WOMAN contestant participating in a poetry contest broadcast live in Dubai last week delivered a blistering attack on Muslim preachers “who sit in the position of power” but are “frightening” people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and “preying like a wolf” on those seeking peace. Hissa Hilal, only her eyes visible through her [...]
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