THE utterly childish nature of Islam is again in the headlines, this time with a report that Saudi Arabia’s Information Minister had to reach for a hanky after reading nasty things written about his dumb-assed religion by a young journalist, Hamza Kashgari. Abdul Aziz Khowja said: When I read his articles, I wept and got [...]
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RIOT police and guard-dog patrols were called out yesterday in Paris to safeguard one of city’s most prestigious theatres when it became the latest target in a wave of Catholic protests across France against so-called “blasphemous” plays. According to this report, the head of the Théâtre du Rond-Point on the Champs-Elysées complained of death threats [...]
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KORANS tend to get overworked in pious places like Pakistan. So much so that they sometimes fall apart, in which case they must be disposed of in an Islamically correct manner: by casting them in flowing water, burying them in the ground, or by burning, if the first two options aren’t possible. Well, devout Muslim [...]
PAKISTAN – a world leader in religious lunacy – is back in the headlines, this time over the treatment of a 10-year-old Christian schoolgirl who misspelled a word pertaining to a poem in praise of the “prophet” Mohammed. The Urdu word, according to this report, was “naat” (hymn), but Faryal Bhatti, an eighth grade student [...]
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LAST week DC launched a revamped version of Action Comics, which has been given a makeover by veteran Scottish comics auteur Grant Morrison. According to this report: Just as the first Action Comics premiered against the backdrop of the Great Depression, imminent technological advancements like television, and the rise of Nazi Germany, Morrison wanted to [...]
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THE fact that Adam and Eve appear naked in the Bible before that unfortunate accident with an apple, and Lot – of Sodom fame – is portrayed as an old pisshead, has sparked calls in Pakistan for the Bible to be banned. The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party has claimed that Bible stories about characters who are [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
