THE utterly childish nature of Islam is again in the headlines, this time with a report that Saudi Arabia’s Information Minister had to reach for a hanky after reading nasty things written about his dumb-assed religion by a young journalist, Hamza Kashgari. Abdul Aziz Khowja said: When I read his articles, I wept and got [...]
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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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A WHILE back I was about to blog about burqas for dogs, having stumbled on a report that that quoted a Muslim sociologist, Omar Jahal, as saying: Muslim men got upset watching male dogs sniffing females and then mounting them in public. They found it indecent. Dog burqas – [barkas] – nip that in the [...]
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SHORTLY after it was reported that a 31-year-old Indonesian atheist may convert to Islam after insulting God and Mohammed, a row broke out between two Muslim groups over a Koran exhibition due to take place tomorrow in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. The first report concerns Alexander Aan, a civil servant who was detained after declaring on Facebook that [...]
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A FACEBOOK page has just been created in support of One Law for All’s rally for Free Expression which is being held in London from 2pm to 4pm at the Old Palace Yard opposite the House of Lords on February 11 – and one of the first people to comment – someone called Simon Richards [...]
IS IT me, or is America’s 2012 presidential campaign throwing more religious lunatics into sharp relief than any in the past? Take, for example, the Rev O’Neal Dozier, a wingnut described here as “a firebrand social conservative”, who heads the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Dozier loathes Islam and cares even less for [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 