THE proportion of Spaniards who say they are Roman Catholic has fallen to 73 percent from around 80 percent eight years ago, according to a survey released this week by the CIS research centre. About 25 percent of all Spaniards now claim to be atheists or without a religion, compared to 17 percent in 2002, [...]
MORE troubling evidence of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in the UK comes in the form of an increasing number of hymen replacement procedures performed on Muslim women prior to their marriages. According to this report, half hour hymenoplasty procedures can cost up to £4,000 if carried out at a private clinic, but some are [...]
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INDONESIA’S top Islamic body announced earlier this month that it may issue a fatwa forbidding  followers from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee Â- extracted from the dung of a civet cat, or kopi luwak. But we have just learned that Ma’aruf Amin, chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) has had a change [...]
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IN what looks suspiciously like an attempt to ape the activities of the Islamic world’s Commissions for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Vatican has extended the powers of its Swiss Guard to impose a modesty dress code across the entire city state. Tourists entering St Peter’s Basilica have long been required [...]
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CHANNEL 4 is giving Stephen “Birdshit” Green the opportunity to sound off on his favourite subject, The Gays, on Monday, August 2 at 7.55pm. As part of its 4thought TV series, Channel 4 – using an ancient, beard-free but typically sullen mugshot of the Birdbrain of Britain – flags up the mad homophobe’s contribution thus: [...]
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ANSWERING questions from MPs on the Commons education select committee today, Michael Gove said: One of the most striking things that I read recently was a thought from Richard Dawkins that he might want to take advantage of our education legislation to open a new school, which was set up on an explicitly atheist basis. [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
