DERMOT Ahern, the Irish Justice Minister, is proposing a referendum this autumn to remove the newly-introduced offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution, along with two other referenda that the government is already committed to.
Atheist Ireland, which tirelessly campaigned against a law that made Ireland the laughing stock of the Western world, revealed today that [...]
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ADAM “Nergal” Darski, frontman for Poland’s extreme heavy metal band Behemoth, has been formally charged for destroying a copy of the Bible over two years ago.
According to this report, while it is a crime in Poland to destroy any religious iconography, there must be at least two formal complaints before a charge is laid. The [...]
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SECULARISTS have condemned the conviction of a “militant atheist” who left “offensive” anti-religious images in Liverpool Airport’s prayer room.
According to the BBC, the National Secular Society called for the “draconian” law used against philosophy tutor Harry Taylor to be changed.
Taylor, 59, of Griffen Street, Salford, admitted at Liverpool Crown Court religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm [...]
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A PRIVATE publisher in New Delhi is to face charges of “offending religious sentiments” for publishing a picture in school textbooks depicting Jesus holding a holding a fag and a bottle of beer.
In the textbooks, for use in handwriting classes, the Sacred Heart of Jesus picture, which is regarded as one of the holiest in [...]
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A 20-year-old Pakistani who was arrested for blasphemy on September 12 in a village in Punjab has been found dead in prison. Police say that the man, Falish Masih, had hanged himself, but Nadeem Anthony, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has accused the authorities of judicial murder. He described [...]
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PROF Richard Dawkins has thrown his weight behind a campaign to repeal Ireland’s new blasphemy organised by Atheist Ireland. The law, which makes the publication or utterance of blasphemous matter a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine, passed through the Oireachtas last week.
In a message read out at Atheist Ireland’s first AGM at the weekend, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
