REPUBLICAN Rick Perry – who replaced George W Bush as Governor of Texas – is partnering with the crazy Christian American Family Association (AFA) to hold an all-day prayer event in Houston this August. Perry has invited his fellow governors to join him at the event to: Call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented [...]
A MUSLIM in France, who was catapulted into the news recently after his wife was fined for driving with a full face veil, in deep doo-doo with the authorities over alleged benefit fraud. Lies Hebbadj, 35, who runs a halal butcher shop in the western city of Nantes, came to our attention after his 31-year-old [...]
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POPE Ratzinger’s visit in September to the UK should be either a State visit, during which the Vatican’s policies are subjected to close scrutiny, or a private religious visit. It cannot be both, insists the British Humanist Association. Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, said: The numerous, costly and exclusive religious activities that the [...]
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IS THIS really far-right BNP leader Nick Griffin and deranged evangelist Rev George Hargreaves cosying up to one another and flashing scooped-out-brain smiles for the camera? Oh yes – and, what’s more, it has pride of place on the BNP website this week, which must come as a terrible shock to staunch upholders of “white [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 