SECULARISTS have condemned the conviction of a “militant atheist” who left “offensive” anti-religious images in Liverpool Airport’s prayer room.
According to the BBC, the National Secular Society called for the “draconian” law used against philosophy tutor Harry Taylor to be changed.
Taylor, 59, of Griffen Street, Salford, admitted at Liverpool Crown Court religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm [...]
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A DANISH newspaper has apologised to Muslims for the offence caused by its decision to reprint Kurt Westergaard’s iconic bomb-in-a-turban cartoon
The Politiken daily said its apology was part of a settlement with a Saudi lawyer representing eight Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.
The drawing was one of 12 caricatures that sparked angry protests [...]
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KURT Westergaard, the 72-year-old cartoonist living under the threat of death from Muslim fanatics, has announced his intention to sell his original bomb-in-a-turban drawing of the Prophet Mohammed.
The most famous of the 12 Motoons, published three years ago by Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper he works for, was described at the weekend by Flemming Rose, cultural [...]
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THE popular website YouTube went off-line for around two hours yesterday – all because Pakistan took offence at some of its anti-Islamic content.
According to a BBC report, the site was apparently accidentally brought down almost globally when officials took steps to block access to it within Pakistan. The BBC said the blackout was almost certainly [...]
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CHANTING “Death to the cartoonist”, dozens of Islamist students this week burned the Danish flag in southern Pakistan after the republication of a caricature of Prophet Mohammad.
And In Kuwait, several parliamentarians called for a boycott of Danish goods.
Wailed Waleed al-Tabtabai, a member of parliament:
The government has to take action against Denmark.
Kuwait’s deputy prime minister Faisal [...]
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The Racial and Religious Hatred Act comes into force in the UK today. Fortunately, however, it was somewhat watered down as it went through its various legislative stages, thanks to some campaigning, notably by the rubber-faced comedian and Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson.
From today, it’ll be illegal to stir up religious hatred against people, intentionally, [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
