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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WAY back in March of this year, Christian street preacher and wannabe MP – Paul Shaw, of Duffield Drive, Colchester – appeared at Colchester magistrates’ court charged with using threatening words or behaviour towards gays, which he denied. District judge David Cooper told him: You said you were spreading God’s word and when interviewed you [...]
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THAT Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was no great fan of the Bible is common knowledge, and his disdain for the “Good Book” shows up in a number of well-known quotations, my favourite being: It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some [...]
ARTWORKS that a Russian court found “blasphemous” this week are about to get a much wider audience. In the wake of the trial of art expert Andrei Yerofeyev and the Sakharov Museum’s then-director Yuri Samodurov, a magazine called Russia! has announced its intention to publish a book, The Banned Art, containing the “offensive” exhibits in [...]
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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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
