MANCHESTER City Councillor Pat Karney is calling for Christian Voice protestors to be banned from future gay pride events in the city after a group of the nutters reportedly “disrupted” his year’s parade at the weekend. Disrupted? Oh please! How on earth can a sad bunch of around 20 delusional loons disrupt an event as [...]
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ASPIRING jihadis have – through the grace of Allah and the resources of Al-Qaida – acquired their very own glossy English language magazine which you can read online here. With full-colour features such as “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom”, Inspire Magazine’s first edition tackles, among other burning issues, the defamation of [...]
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OUTRAGED by the disrespect shown to the “prophet” in Facebook’s “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”, a Pakistani called Yousaf Fayyaz has launched a Mo-lovin’ site called BuddyFlick. The Facebook clone is a response to an outcry over Facebook members posting material deemed offensive to Islam earlier this year. Pakistani courts temporarily banned Facebook in May and [...]
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A TRIBUTE in the Portuguese edition of Playboy to the late Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago – a “militant atheist” – has gone horribly wrong, and the magazine has been shut down for “blasphemy”. Playboy’s “crime” was to re-imagine Saramago’s novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ as soft-core porno. Curiously, it wasn’t the Portuguese [...]
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A FEDERAL court has struck down a Pennsylvania statute that forbids business names containing: Words that constitute blasphemy, profane cursing or swearing or that profane the Lord’s name. The case arose after Downington resident George Kalman was refused permission by state regulators to register his film company under the name “I Choose Hell Productions LLC.” [...]
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IN WHAT turned out to be the biggest anti-sharia law demonstration ever staged in the UK, hundreds of people gathered in London on Sunday to support the One Law for All rally to show their opposition to Sharia and other religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere, and to demand universal rights, equality and secularism. A [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 