DR BRIDGET McConnell, head of Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG), the £100 million charity in charge of the city’s culture, said yesterday that she was alarmed by what she describes as a “personal witchhunt” against her by packs of evangelical loonies.
For the past six months, the head of Glasgow’s museums and art has been under [...]
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POLICE launched a terrorism investigation in Paris yesterday after two men tried to set fire to an Algerian feminist playwright and actress, who stars in a play said to portray Muslim men in an unflattering light.
The attackers, according to this report, sprayed Rayhana, known only by her first name, with petrol and threw a [...]
ACTOR Sam Elliott has accused the Catholic Church of pressurising Hollywood producers to scrap the final parts of Philip Pullman’s classic fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials.
Studio bosses have shelved plans to film the final two instalments of the fantasy, despite the success of the first movie, The Golden Compass, two years ago.
According to this [...]
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WHILE doing some research yesterday, I stumbled across an astonishing comment posted three years ago on Jihadwatch by Heba Reisy, an Iranian “Muslima” living in Washington DC.
Reisy runs the Sisters in Islam blog, set up to:
Show other women the beauty of Islam and that Islam respects women and limits men so that they do not [...]
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A LAVISHLY-shot documentary about what God means to people around the world has just opened in the US.
But Oh My God? left at least one critic singularly underwhelmed.
Tirdad Derakhshani, of the Philidelphia Inquirer, says the movie – brainchild of Brit Peter Rodger, a commercial photographer and adman-turned-filmmaker:
Is anything but a treasure.
The film, says Derakhshani begins [...]
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NO action is to be taken against a photographer accused of “blasphemy” and “trespassing” at St Michael Penkivel Church in Cornwall following an “illegal” photoshoot featuring “semi-naked models cavorting around a graveyard and inside the church”.
One photo, according to this report, featured two models, called Kate and Bex, fondling each other on a cloth-draped altar, [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
