TWO atheist websites in Australia which were knocked off-line in a major cyber attack on Tuesday are both up and running again.
Visitors to both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention got a “distributed denial of service” message when they tried to access the sites immediately after the attack.
The attacks, according to [...]
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THE British Government’s outrageous refusal to allow Dutch politician Geert Wilders into the UK to screen his anti-Islamic film Fitna has been overturned on appeal.
And how’s this for a delicious piece of irony – Wilders was represented by a MUSLIM barrister, Arfan Khan.
According to the Guardian, Wilders now intends to travel to London next week [...]
SHE’s back, folks – and she’s madder than a wasp in a jar!
[ADDAMS] Family Values campaigner Andrea Minichiello Williams – barrister, founder of the Christian Legal Centre, and possible inspiration for the phrase “a bulldog chewing on nettles” – is on the warpath again.
This time it’s the upcoming Coroners and Justice Bill that’s upset the [...]
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THE BBC has offered £30,000 and an apology to the Muslim Council of Britain following remarks made on Question Time by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore.
During a debate in March about Islamic protests which marred a soldiers’ homecoming parade in Luton, Moore, a panellist on the programme, accused the Muslim organisation of failing to [...]
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THE trial of a Turkish author charged with inciting religious hatred in a novel about Islam published last year has been postponed until June 25.
Nedim Gürsel, who lives in Paris, denies blasphemy, saying that his book – The Daughters of Allah – is a work of fiction, but the result of extensive research and consultation [...]
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UPPITY Christian pup Chad Farnan, a teenage student at California’s Capistrano Valley high school, has notched up a landmark legal victory by persuading a judge that his European history teacher broke the law by “promoting, or displaying hostility towards, religion”.
Judge James Selna ruled that James Corbett’s remark that “creationism was superstitious nonsense” constituted “improper disapproval [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
