THE University College London Union’s Atheist, Secularist & Humanist Society is staging a spirited fight-back over an attempt by the UCLU to censor its Facebook page. The group uses a Jesus & Mo cartoon to publicise its weekly pub social in London, but was told to remove it because it may cause offence to Muslim [...]
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I AM outraged! The BBC yesterday carried a report that a Benetton poster depicting Pope Ratzinger kissing a top Egyptian imam had been pulled after complaints from the Vatican. It’s not the pulling of the ad that annoyed me so much as the fact that the lily-livered Beeb chose not to reproduce the poster. Instead [...]
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A BUNCH of mad meddlers in America – collectively called Morality in Media – has just got wind of a plan by Ryanair to develop apps for iPads, iPhones and other smartphones which will allow passengers to watch adult movies during flights. And MIM ain’t happy. According to Christian Today, Dawn Hawkins, MIM’s chief fussbucket, [...]
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DUTCH politician Geert Wilders has been found not guilty by a court in Amsterdam where he was standing trial on five counts of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims. Wilders, right-wing leader of the Freedom Party, had described Islam as a “fascist ideology”, and compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The judge said that [...]
THE Central Arkansas Transit Authority and its advertising agency have been served with a lawsuit after they demanded an outrageous amount of money to allow a local group of atheists to run an ad campaign on a fleet of 18 buses. The transit agency’s ad firm – On The Move Advertising – required the group [...]
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A KINKY TV ad, featuring a reluctant Jesus about to receive the attentions of a big ol’ dominatrix, has upset some Catholics in Italy. The advert, for mobile phone earpieces, depicts the saviour sweating and looking anxious. He winces when a woman in tights and high heels enters the room, thwacks whip on the bed [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
