AFTER receiving a number of telephone threats, a gay Indian artist was attacked last week at a Delhi gallery where his work was being featured. Balbir Kirishan, a double amputee who lost both his legs, was insulted, pushed and kicked by a disguised assailant, who then vandalised some of Kirishan’s gay-related work. According to this [...]
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A GESTURE of goodwill went horribly wrong after Muslim zealots decided that a monument Pakistan gifted to the people of the Maldives was “idolatrous”. It was erected in November in the city of Hithadhoo to mark a South Asian summit in the Indian Ocean archipelago of 300,000 Muslims. A group of hotheads objected to the [...]
I HAVE been deluged by emails over the last day or so by readers enraged over ITV’s cowardly decision to cut Aussie comedian Tim Minchin out of the Jonathan Ross Show. ITV network’s director of television Peter Fincham apparently got cold feet over a song Minchin penned for the show in which he compared Jesus [...]
RIOT police and guard-dog patrols were called out yesterday in Paris to safeguard one of city’s most prestigious theatres when it became the latest target in a wave of Catholic protests across France against so-called “blasphemous” plays. According to this report, the head of the Théâtre du Rond-Point on the Champs-Elysées complained of death threats [...]
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JOHNNY Depp has proved himself to be a truly gifted actor – but his latest foray into the world of pop has earned him no fans among US fundies, who are fuming over his Jesus Stag Night Club song. According to this report, Depp teamed up with the band Babybird to record the number, which: [...]
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SAM’s CLUB, one on the biggest retailers in the US, has banned the latest volume of Brendan Smith’s Brick Bible – after complains that it is “vulgar and violent”. Smith, who has been using Lego sets for ten years to reconstruct Bible mythology, tackled sexually suggestive passages from the “Good Book” in the fourth of [...]
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