AN Indonesian court yesterday ordered a local branch of the Paris-based Buddha Bar chain to close after convicting the licence holder of blasphemy. According to this report, it also ordered licensee PT Nireta Vista Creative, the official Jakarta tourism agency and Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo to pay damages of one billion rupiah (110,000 dollars) to [...]
ITALIANS have reacted angrily after Muammar Gaddafi lectured 200 actresses and models on the superiority of Islam, a day after saying that all Europeans should turn Muslim. The Libyan leader recruited the women through a modelling agency to join him and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a photographic exhibition in Rome that traced historical [...]
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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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ENTOMBED 700 metres beneath the surface of the earth, 33 Chilean miners – some showing signs of depression and “severe dermatological problems” – each got a gift that’s really going to solve all their problems: a miniature Bible. According to this report, Carlos Parra, an evangelical preacher, arrived at the San Jose mine in Copiapo [...]
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RABBI Ovadia Yosef, 89, spiritual leader of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has outraged Middle East peace negotiators by calling on God to make: All the nasty people who hate Israel … vanish from our world. The old fool’s remarks, aimed specifically at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, was made in a weekly sermon. He went on [...]
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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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
