OUTSPOKEN Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe has incurred the wrath of Disu Kamor, Media and Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Centre, who this week branded the human rights campaigner as “a salesman of hate” and “an ardent Islamophobe”. The attack on the “schizophrenic” Igwe followed the publication in Nigerian News of an article he [...]
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AS prayer signs go, the one hanging for over 50 years in the auditorium of Cranston High School West in Cranston, Rhode Island, was not as cheesy as most. But its presence was in clear violation of church-state separation – and, thanks to the action of a brave humanist student, the school authorities were ordered [...]
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NIGERIAN humanists have lashed out at a Parliamentary move to outlaw gay marriage in their country. The Bill for an Act to Prohibit Marriage Between Persons of Same Gender, Solemnization of Same and for Other Matters Related Therewith was sponsored by Senator Domingo Obende, and went through its second reading at the end of September. [...]
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FOLLOWING a major setback earlier this year, a planned festival for non-believing service personnel at one of America’s biggest military bases has been given official clearance, and will take place next spring. Organisers planned to stage the Rock Beyond Belief event this year at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but cancelled after saying Bragg leadership was [...]
WELL, here’s a bit of encouraging news: Holland has Protestant Church minister who tells his congregation to make the most of life here on earth as there is no such thing as a post-mortem existence, and that the Bible’s account of Jesus’s life should be regarded as a mythological story about a man who may [...]
THE UK gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed unveiling on Friday by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh of a memorial at Bletchley Park to honour those who played a pivotal role in decryption operations during World War II, including the celebrated gay codebreaker and founder of the modern [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
