A BLASPHEMY complaint against a sports magazine has been dismissed by the press ombudsman in South Africa. Sports Illustrated raised the wrath of a reader when, in March, it published a golfing joke featuring Jesus and St Peter in the context of an article about technology in sport. When Jesus hooked his first tee-shot, an [...]
THE controversial artist, who sparked debate – and attracted death threats – by drawing the “prophet” Mohammed with the body of a dog, revealed yesterday that he had joined Facebook’s “Kill Lars Vilks”group, as well as another anti-Vilks group. The revelation, according to this report, came after Vilks had delivered a speech just steps away [...]
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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 [...]
DISPLAYING all the insecurities of a pre-pubescent brat, some South African Muslims – deeply upset that their efforts to quash the publication of a “gentle” Motoon failed miserably earlier this week – are now issuing death threats. The cartoon by Zapiro was published in the Mail & Guardian after a court ruled against the South [...]
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THE reluctance of Muslim leaders to protect the honour of the “prophet” Mo by waging “total jihad” against blasphemy committed by the “Jewish-Christian West” was blamed yesterday for persistent assaults on the character of the character who concocted Islam. At angry rallies that took place across Pakistan against Facebook’s “Draw Mohammed” initiative, various Islamic clerics, [...]
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THE Seattle cartoonist who inspired Facebook’s hugely successful “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” has apologised for sparking a row which had Muslims jumping up and down with fury, and culminated with the banning of the social networking site in Pakistan. Interviewed on a local Seattle TV channel, NWCN, Molly Norris did not show her face, as [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
