GIRLS between the ages of six and 12 are being targeted by angry Orthodox Jews in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, who claim that the pupils at the Orot Girl’s Elementary school are dressing in an immodest and slutty manner. The BBC reports that, as the girls and their mothers make their way home, [...]
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A GROUP of Muslims who attended a multi-ethnic dinner at a Methodist Church hall in Malaysia are to receive counselling because Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, the constitutional ruler of Malaysia’s central Selangor state, believes they may have been contaminated by their encounter with the infidels. Shah is reported here as saying that Islamic officials who [...]
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TWO members of a breakaway Amish group in the US – Johnny and Lester Mullet – have been charged with “degrading” a 74-year-old Amisher by removing his beard. The pair of Mullets – aged 38 and 26, respectively – are, according to this report in the Philadephia Inquirer, the sons of Amish “bishop” Sam Mullet [...]
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WE KNOW that chickens have to cross the road to avoid unpleasant, dizzying encounters with ultra-Orthodox Jews, but now we learn that women, too, should take avoidance measures when the Men in Black come their way. Signs telling Jewish females to steer clear of oncoming Orthodox Jewish men have, according to this report, created a [...]
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A CRUEL ritual, said to date back some 800 years, involves ultra-Orthodox Jews swinging chickens above their heads to absolve them from their sins. The ghastly spectacle takes place to mark Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – and the birds are slaughtered afterwards. But now some concerned rabbis, according to this report, are [...]
NIGERIAN humanists have lashed out at a Parliamentary move to outlaw gay marriage in their country. The Bill for an Act to Prohibit Marriage Between Persons of Same Gender, Solemnization of Same and for Other Matters Related Therewith was sponsored by Senator Domingo Obende, and went through its second reading at the end of September. [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
