ARMED police in South Africa were unable to prevent a mob stoning a priest to death earlier this week. They stood helplessly by as the mob killed Albert Shai, 65, of Rakoma village outside the attractive garden town of Tzaneen because they believed had “bewitched” a young relative, causing him to commit suicide. The killing, [...]
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HAT’S off Apple for refusing to bow to pressure from Christian fundies who want an iPhone application, The Manhattan Declaration, restored after it was removed earlier this month. Despite the fact that over 480,000 loonies have signed a petition to have the homophobic and anti-abortion app restored – it was chucked into the rotten apple [...]
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FOLLOWING the news this week that Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish were celebrating the birth of their first son, BBC 1′s flagship News at Six – in a shocking example of anti-gay bias – called on Christian rent-a-gob Stephen Green to comment on the event. With the introduction “not everyone is pleased [...]
I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree THERE’S an element of poignancy, and not a little irony in the opening lines of (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer’s poem, Trees, given the news that a deranged Christian organisation, God-TV, is conspiring with Israel to use a tree-planting programme to oust Bedouin Arabs from [...]
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THE law that obliges schools to hold daily acts of worship in England ought to be scrapped. Teachers and pressure groups, according to the Guardian yesterday, are urging Education Secretary Michael Gove to ditch the law, which, they argue, infringes children’s human rights and discriminates against pupils of no faith and non-Christians. The National Secular [...]
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IN an unprecedented show of strength, Muslim clerics in Pakistan have drawn thousands of protesters onto the streets to express their anger at proposed changes to the country’s notorious blasphemy law. There have also been calls for a general strike to take place on December 31. The target of these protests, in various cities of [...]
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