A FACEBOOK page has just been created in support of One Law for All’s rally for Free Expression which is being held in London from 2pm to 4pm at the Old Palace Yard opposite the House of Lords on February 11 – and one of the first people to comment – someone called Simon Richards [...]
JUST minutes after learning that a Cardiff student had removed a Jesus & Mo cartoon from his Facebook page after his school threatened to expel him, I learned that an Indonesian man, who used Facebook to declare the non-existence of God, could face jail. According to the BBC, civil servant Alexander Aan, 31, is now [...]
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ORGANISERS of an event aimed at combating homophobia at the St Joseph Catholic Secondary School in Toronto incurred the wrath of school board officials when it became known that they intended displaying rainbows at their information booth. A “ridiculous” ban was then slapped on the group by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board, according to Leanne [...]
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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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
