BENEATH an hysterical headline in today’s Dail Wail – How cash meant for promoting faith is going to an organisation that campaigns AGAINST Christianity – someone called Steve has left this comment: Christianity is dead in the UK – RIP bible bashers! As for the other muppet religions, they should be banned. Well done Labour, [...]
DID you know that the London Stock Exchange has its very own Ju-Ju man. Yep, this testerone-fuelled temple to rampant capitalism has a chaplain, the Rev Dr Peter Mullen – a man with a particular talent for elevating witlessness to hitherto unscaled heights. Or down to unplumbed depths, if you prefer. This is what Mullen [...]
THE conviction this month of a Manchester Imam who beat an 11-year-old boy with a mop handle for talking during a lesson at a mosque, serves as a timely reminder of the dangers children face in Islamic institutions both in the UK and abroad. Guhlam Mustapha Hazarvi, 42, dragged the frightened boy into the corner [...]
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LABOUR’s chief whip in the Scottish Parliament seems afraid about something – something that might just stir up a religious hornets’ nest (are there religious hornets?). Michael McMahon doesn’t want an inquiry into Catholic Schools and possible discrimination therein. But, then, he’s a Catholic, as can be seen from his profile on the Parliament’s website. [...]
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MUSLIMS in Slough have high hopes if they expect a quarter of the pupils in their new taxpayer-funded school to be not of the “faith”. But that’s the optimistic claim of the Slough Islamic School Project, whose new, 630-pupil primary school – the town’s first state Muslim school – is due to begin construction in January [...]
AÂ BOY has been refused a bus pass because he doesn’t do superstition. At least, he has not had the mumbo-jumbo intoned over his protesting infant head while a man in flowing garb sprinkles water on him. And, because of that, eleven-year-old Elliott Stewart has been denied his free pass to travel by bus to St [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
