TWO seats of learning in Britain and America have enraged supporters of free speech by taking a stance against students who republished some of the Danish cartoons that led to widespread rioting across the globe in 2005. On February 12, the education section of the Guardian reported that the editor of the Clare College newspaper [...]
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I AM a frequent visitor to Muslim websites. In this job one needs to keep abreast of what’s happening in the collective orthodox Muslim mind – especially nowadays when so many of our freedoms are under assault from Islamic fundamentalists. Trawling through page after page of mindless ranting, paranoia, and gripes about ‘Islamophobia’ is bad [...]
THE Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has a passion for newts. Which probably goes a long way to explain his fondness for another slippery little creature called Dr Yusuf al Qaradawi. The slimy Qaradawi has enjoyed Livingstone’s hospitality, and has even been publicly embraced by the Mayor, who regards him as a ‘moderate’ Muslim. It [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
