DAYS after two men accused of blasphemy were gunned down in Pakistan, a Pakistan high court yesterday released a mentally ill woman held without trial for 14 years on allegations of desecrating the Koran. Despite “no evidence” being found against 60-year-old Zaibul Nisa, she had been left to languish in the prison section of a [...]
The National Secular Society this week applied to the High Court to have council prayers declared  unlawful. If the society wins the case it would create a precedent that would be binding on other councils. After weeks of exhausting preparation, the papers were lodged at the High Court for a “Judicial Review between the Queen [...]
AN Arab man, convicted in Israel of rape after he had consensual sex with a Jewish woman who later found out that he was an Arab, has called the verdict racist. Sabbar Kashur, 30, was found guilty this week of “rape by deception” by the Israeli court and sentenced to 18 months in jail. According [...]
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TONIGHT UK viewers can enjoy a screening of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ – a movie dubbed ‘The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre’ by one US critic. It’s a film that: Lovingly and in detail recycles the bloody myth that all Jews are historically and collectively responsible for the murder of Jesus. These are the [...]
POLICE reinforcements were mobilised yesterday in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad a day after two Christians charged with blasphemy were shot dead outside court. Clashes broke out in the city, home to a large Christian community, after the brothers were gunned down. Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and Sajid, 24, were accused of writing a pamphlet [...]
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A WELSH councillor is facing a disciplinary hearing after calling the Church of Scientology “stupid” in a post on the Twitter website. Wales’ public standards watchdog said John Dixon is likely to have breached the code of conduct for local authority members with his short message last year. The Church of Scientology, according to this [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
