OH, the irony! Just hours after the fool Iftikhar Ahmad, of the London School of Islamics, posted  – beneath this report – a rambling defense of “the most peaceful religion in the world“, and the respect Islam has for females, comes news from Egypt that a protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding equal [...]
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DR USAMA Hasan, Vice Chairman of the Masjid Madrasah al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton High Road has invoked the wrath of fundamentalist hotheads who want him dead for daring to suggest that Muslims need to accept the theory of evolution. According to this report, a lecture given recently by Dr Hasan was disrupted by protesters who [...]
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AN idiotic decision by companies owning advertising space in railway stations to ban British Humanist Association census campaign posters has caused puzzlement and outrage among secularists. The posters, designed to encourage non-religious people to tick the “None” box when asked “What is your religion?” had the slogan: If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say [...]
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INFANT circumcision could be halted if a San Francisco man succeeds in gaining enough support from voters to outlaw this barbaric practise. (See Why circumcision should be abhorred). According to this report, self described “intactivist” Lloyd Schofield has been collecting signatures for a voter initiative that would criminalise the mutilation of baby boys, but Jewish [...]
FOLLOWING an evangelical Rock the Fort event at Fort Bragg last year – an event the military sponsored to the tune of over $50,000 – an atheist soldier, Sgt Justin Griffith, responded by organising  a Rock Beyond Belief event, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 2. It was to feature speakers such as Richard [...]
RESIDENTS in three major US cities are being reminded that it is perfectly possible to live a fulfilling life without God. The message is hardly new. Rationalists, skeptics and philosophers have been saying this for centuries. But only in the last decade or so has the idea taken hold in a big way, and it [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
