MISOGYNY in Islam takes many forms, but when it extends to the mutilation of mannequins, one is left wondering whether there is any limit at all to the lunacy of the fundamentalist Muslim mind. This picture was posted under the headline Mad Mullahs Mandate Mannequin Mastectomies here. The report suggests that the mannequins, spotted in [...]
IN WHAT turned out to be the biggest anti-sharia law demonstration ever staged in the UK, hundreds of  people gathered in London on Sunday to support the One Law for All rally to show their opposition to Sharia and other religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere, and to demand universal rights, equality and secularism. A [...]
A BLASPHEMY complaint against a sports magazine has been dismissed by the press ombudsman in South Africa. Sports Illustrated raised the wrath of a reader when, in March, it published a golfing joke featuring Jesus and St Peter in the context of an article about technology in sport. When Jesus hooked his first tee-shot, an [...]
A NEW film based on the legend of Pope Joan – an Englishwoman who purportedly disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female pontiff in history – has been dismissed as black propaganda by the Roman Catholic Church. The film has fuelled disagreements over whether Pope Joan really existed or, as [...]
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IN A bid to create a warm, cuddly, tolerant brand of Islam in the UK, and also counter negative views of Muslims in Britain, the Exploring Islam Foundation has launched a series of Inspired by Muhammad ads in London. A spokesman for Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank which seeks to promote a “British Islam. [...]
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A MESSY dispute has broken out in Germany’s Catholic Church after a bishop accused of abusing minors said his superiors had tricked Pope Ratzinger into retiring him and he might ask the Vatican to be reinstated. According to this report, Bishop Walter Mixa, who quit in April after admitting he had slapped children decades ago, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
