ITALIANS have reacted angrily after Muammar Gaddafi lectured 200 actresses and models on the superiority of Islam, a day after saying that all Europeans should turn Muslim. The Libyan leader recruited the women through a modelling agency to join him and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a photographic exhibition in Rome that traced historical [...]
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RABBI Ovadia Yosef, 89, spiritual leader of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has outraged Middle East peace negotiators by calling on God to make: All the nasty people who hate Israel … vanish from our world. The old fool’s remarks, aimed specifically at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, was made in a weekly sermon. He went on [...]
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WAY back in March of this year, Christian street preacher and wannabe MP – Paul Shaw, of Duffield Drive, Colchester – appeared at Colchester magistrates’ court charged with using threatening words or behaviour towards gays, which he denied. District judge David Cooper told him: You said you were spreading God’s word and when interviewed you [...]
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A FEW weeks back, an episode of American Dad on BBC3 TV featured an attempt by the main character, Stan, to be a speaker at a Republican convention. When he is cold-shouldered, the diehard homophobe finds himself accepted instead by the local chapter of the Gay Republicans – with hilarious consequences. Funnier still is the [...]
THE Pope’s controversial visit to Britain next month is being threatened by low giving from Catholic parishes and rows over ethics and public money. According to this report, the cost of the planned state visit events has risen from £12 million to £20 million over the past two months, and there is a £3 million [...]
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TWO Christian politicians are in the midst of a firestorm following remarks they made about Islam. Australian Liberal Party candidate, David Barker, got himself dumped as the candidate for the safe Labor seat of Chifley after branding Prime Minister Julia Gillard an “atheist”, and accusing the Labor government of moving Australia closer to becoming a [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
