BUDDHISTS “all over the world” have had their “sentiments hurt” by a new range of “blasphemous” Keds sneakers bearing the image of the Dalai Lama. Now, we all imagine that Buddhists are a laidback, tolerant lot whose philosophy is in no way as red in tooth and claw as say, Islam, whose followers exist in [...]
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IN a move reminiscent of the little Dutch boy’s efforts to plug the leak in a dike, Pope Ratzinger has unveiled plans to stop the growing number of escapees from the clutches of the Church. According to the Telegraph today, Ratzinger is to create a crack squad to drive disillusioned Catholics back into the fold. [...]
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AUSTRALIA’S new Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she has no intention of pretending to believe in God in order to win over religious voters. While former PM Kevin Rudd was a regular at Canberra church services – and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is known as a devout Catholic – Ms Gillard says that, while she [...]
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LAST month the organisers of a talk scheduled to be delivered in Vienna by leading Coptic Christian Fr Zakaria Botros had to be cancelled after threats of violence were proclaimed by furious Islamists. Hardly surprising, really, as the flamboyant Botros is no great lover of Islam – and Al-Qaeda has reportedly put a $60 million bounty [...]
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BLASPHEMY hunters in Pakistan are to beginning to monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, for content it deems offensive to Muslims. According to the BBC, YouTube, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail and Bing will also come under scrutiny, while 17 less well-known sites will be blocked. Officials  – who must have a great deal [...]
THERE is a TV contest currently running in Malaysia to find the country’s most aspiring young cleric. We kid you not. Instead of singing pop songs, doing dance routines or acrobatics the male-only contestants (of course) on Young Imam chant passages from the Koran to prove they are the best mullah. Yawn. According to this [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
