SHLOMO Fuchs is a puzzled man. The ultra-Orthodox Jew from Jerusalem cannot understand why he was taken into custody earlier this week for “exercising his right to freedom of expression”. After all, all he did was to abuse a female soldier, calling her a “slut, slut, slut!” for not taking a back seat on a [...]
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IN A belated Christmas message to the nation, Sheikh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, Ghana’s Chief Imam, claimed that, even though it was “becoming a thing of the past”, homosexuality needs to be firmly opposed. Sharubutu, who heads the Nuuru-Usmaniyyah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (NUSMAN) used his festive message on Tuesday to commend religious leaders for [...]
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JOURNALISTS and police were roughed up, stones were thrown and refuse bins set alight in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth yesterday when hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men got stroppy in defence of rules they have imposed to segregate their womenfolk – or chattels as they tend to regard them. Zealots in the town, according [...]
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I RECENTLY discovered Ben C O Grimm’s Atheism News Magazine – and have been regularly checking into it to see what’s going on in the mad, bad world of religion. The reports on Grimm’s site are, by and large, pretty grim, the most horrifying today being the Christmas day attacks by mad Muslims in Nigeria [...]
A GESTURE of goodwill went horribly wrong after Muslim zealots decided that a monument Pakistan gifted to the people of the Maldives was “idolatrous”. It was erected in November in the city of Hithadhoo to mark a South Asian summit in the Indian Ocean archipelago of 300,000 Muslims. A group of hotheads objected to the [...]
JAILING a Muslim man for attacking a midwife, a French judge told him: Your religious values are not superior to the laws of the republic. Nassim Mimoune, 24, was jailed for six months after he was arrested for punching the nurse for trying to remove his wife’s burqa during childbirth, according to this report. Stock [...]
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