FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated by Pakistani police under a section of the penal code that carries the death sentence for blasphemy against the “prophet” Mohammed. According to this report, Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation against Zuckerberg and others in response to Facebook hosting a “Draw Muhammad” contest on [...]
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THIS November, Yale University Press will launch Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World. But, astoundingly, drawings that shook the world like no others in the history of contemporary cartoonery – the Motoons published in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten – won’t be featured because YUP believes that, if it were to republish them, more [...]
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SATURDAY Morning Breakfast Cereal has been gracing the internet for eight years. Browse through its vast archives and it soon becomes clear why it is one of the world’s most popular webcomics. Dark, erudite, irreverent and intelligent, the daily gag-strip portrays a wild world of toddler-eating serial killers, pistol-packing parents, capricious deities, and inappropriate chat-up [...]
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HOSPITALS could be reduced to mere workshops where you get your biological parts fixed if the National Secular Society were to run the NHS. Those are the words of a Catholic priest, father Paul Mason, who, on the BBC Today Programme this morning, opposed a suggestion by the NSS that hospital chaplains should be funded [...]
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PRESIDENT Omar al-Bashir wants no Danes on Sudanese soil, nor any Danish products on the shelves. But, when he embarked an anti-Danish rant this week over the re-publication of the Motoons, he said nothing about returning the generous aid package this ghastly, authoritarian Islamic republic receives from Denmark. According to Worldwide Religious News, Sudan received [...]
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ASSUD the Bunny, star of the Hamas children’s show, The Pioneers of Tomorrow – broadcast on al on Al-Aqsa TV last week – said this of anyone who dares to insult the Prophet Mohammed: If they do it again, Saraa [Saraa Barhoum, who hosts the show], we will kill them, right? – I will bite [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
