DR Rumy Hasan is a quietly-spoken academic with a winsome smile who is quite unlikely to win many friends among mainly left-leaning British liberals who have, over the last 30 years or so, insisted on accusing critics of hard-line Islamic ideology as “Islamophobic” and – by extension – “racist”. Hasan, a senior lecturer at the [...]
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NEWS has just come to light that a teacher at a Catholic school in Fort Dodge, Iowa, has been fired after saying in a Facebook survey she did not believe in God. Administrators of St Edmond Catholic School fired Abby Nurre, 27, late last year, just months after she was hired as an eighth-grade math [...]
WHATEVER one might think of our new Lib-Con Government, there’s very good cause to lament the absence in the new coalition of Dr Evan Harris, who lost his Oxford West & Abingdon seat by fewer than 200 votes. Harris had been the target of campaigns by at least two priests, one of whom was behind [...]
WITHIN hours of telling the other half that I’d sooner dip my dick in the Magimix than vote Tory in the upcoming general election, up pops a report in the Daily Telegraph which says that Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to review Britain’s abortion laws and stop assisted suicide in “moves designed to place [...]
WELCOME to the second part of our interview with PROFESSOR A C GRAYLING. Here, PETER BRIETBART asks Grayling how he’d combat extremism if he were the Prime Minister of the UK; how we can have morality in a godless world; whether circumcision is ever morally acceptable, and why religions are so common and varied. PB: [...]
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MOST independent Muslim schools in England are under threat of closure, according to the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS). The organisation, which represents independent Islamic institutions, said many could not afford to stay open. Most of the dogma factories schools use fees and donations to cover costs and need about £2,000 per pupil per year [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
