A WEEK or so ago I sent a link – by way of a thank you for all the help, support and hospitality they had given me since I arrived in Spain a year ago – to Dutch couple Marco and Ricardo who run Sensations bar in Benidorm. It was a YouTube link to I [...]
A SUGGESTION that the Swiss flag, with its prominent cross, should be replaced with one less likely to offend non-Christians has been dismissed as “wrong and counterproductive” by an Islamic group in that country. The proposal, which is said here to have caused unwelcome tensions between the Swiss majority and the country’s five percent Muslim [...]
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A PROMINENT Israeli writer has won a significant court victory in his battle not to be officially registered as Jewish. Yoram Kaniuk, 81 – born and raised in Tel Aviv and an internationally acclaimed author and critic – petitioned the Interior Ministry in 2010 to change his status on the population register from “Jewish” to [...]
SWITZERLAND’S official flag – bearing a distinctive white cross on a red background – has been around since 1848, but Muslims in the country are now claiming that it is offensive and want it replaced. According to this report, Second@s Plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation Swiss residents is about to launch [...]
TWO girls – one aged 13 and the other four – are dead as a result of their parents’ superstitious belief in demonic possession. Japanese teenager Tomomi Maishigi  died in August after her father and a Buddhist monk performed a ‘waterfall service’ on the girl, who was thought to be possessed by “an evil spirit”. [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
