A TEENAGE boy who killed the man who raped him faces execution unless he stumps up over £1-million in “blood money” for the rapist’s family. The unnamed rape victim, according to this report, was sentenced to death by a criminal court in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah for stabbing an older boy – [...]
JUST minutes after learning that a Cardiff student had removed a Jesus & Mo cartoon from his Facebook page after his school threatened to expel him, I learned that an Indonesian man, who used Facebook to declare the non-existence of God, could face jail. According to the BBC, civil servant Alexander Aan, 31, is now [...]
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“STRESS” lies behind the resignation of the President of University College London Union’s Atheist, Secularist and Humanist society, Robbie Yellon, following the row that broke out over the use of a Jesus & Mo cartoon on the society’s Facebook page. The society, according to the BBC, said Yellon was stepping down to be replaced by [...]
ON the same day that a British barrister was reported as saying that sharia was “compatible with human rights”, and was good for the “community as a whole”, a Muslim fanatic forced the cancellation of a discussion of Islamic law at a London university on Monday. Jennifer Hardy, President of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism [...]
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QUEEN Beatrix of the Netherlands has been accused of making “a sad spectacle” of herself by visiting two mosques looking for all the world like a pantomime dame. Queen Beatrix doing the Islamic thing in Oman The queen, according to the BBC, donned some ridiculous headgear and a cut-off burqa “out of respect for Islamic [...]
THE University College London Union Jesus & Mo controversy rumbles on. Latest to join the fray is S M Tahir Nasser, Treasurer of UCLU Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association (AMSA), who declared: It is not for Atheists to decide what will or will not offend believers of different religions. Responding to a petition deploring UCLU’s attempt [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
