APRIL 25 is the date set by a Jordanian court for the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who recently survived an assassination attempt. He stands accused of “the crime of blasphemy” over a controversial caricature of the “prophet” Mohammed. According to this report, Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets that [...]
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AN “Ask an Atheist Day” event at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, turned nasty this week when Alexander M Huppert, a freshman university studies major, stabbed himself in the hand with a pen, then assaulted an officer who approached to check his welfare. After a short struggle with the officer and several witnesses, he was [...]
A POSTER outside the Tom Peppers pub in Clacton declares: Thank Christ for the Easter Bank Holiday. And it depicts a thumbs-up Jesus wearing headphones and a wide grin. But some local Christians are less than amused by the poster, which, promises, among other Easter treats, vodka and Red Bull for £2.50 on Easter Sunday [...]
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A PORTLAND, Oregon, mum who tried to circumcise her 3-month old son after reading the Bible, is facing assault and criminal mistreatment charges. Keemonta Peterson, 29, used box cutters and a pair of pliers in the botched attempt to ritually mutilate the child. After the 3-month-old boy suffered two hours of uncontrolled bleeding, she called [...]
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A PLAY that outraged Catholics when it was staged in Spain in 2004 opens at the La MaMa theatre in New York on April 28 under the title of Holy Crap. Originally titled Me cago en Dios (I shit on God, an expression Spaniards utter commonly in anger or amazement) the play has been translated [...]
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A 15-year-old rape victim was forced to stand terrified before her entire Baptist congregation in New Hampshire to confess her “sin” of having become pregnant. What Tina Anderson wasn’t allowed to tell the congregation was that she had become pregnant after she was raped by a church deacon, a man twice her age. According to [...]
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