THE utterly childish nature of Islam is again in the headlines, this time with a report that Saudi Arabia’s Information Minister had to reach for a hanky after reading nasty things written about his dumb-assed religion by a young journalist, Hamza Kashgari. Abdul Aziz Khowja said: When I read his articles, I wept and got [...]
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OUTSPOKEN Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe has incurred the wrath of Disu Kamor, Media and Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Centre, who this week branded the human rights campaigner as “a salesman of hate” and “an ardent Islamophobe”. The attack on the “schizophrenic” Igwe followed the publication in Nigerian News of an article he [...]
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A WHILE back I was about to blog about burqas for dogs, having stumbled on a report that that quoted a Muslim sociologist, Omar Jahal, as saying: Muslim men got upset watching male dogs sniffing females and then mounting them in public. They found it indecent. Dog burqas – [barkas] – nip that in the [...]
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SHORTLY after it was reported that a 31-year-old Indonesian atheist may convert to Islam after insulting God and Mohammed, a row broke out between two Muslim groups over a Koran exhibition due to take place tomorrow in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. The first report concerns Alexander Aan, a civil servant who was detained after declaring on Facebook that [...]
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JUST minutes after learning that a Cardiff student had removed a Jesus & Mo cartoon from his Facebook page after his school threatened to expel him, I learned that an Indonesian man, who used Facebook to declare the non-existence of God, could face jail. According to the BBC, civil servant Alexander Aan, 31, is now [...]
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“STRESS” lies behind the resignation of the President of University College London Union’s Atheist, Secularist and Humanist society, Robbie Yellon, following the row that broke out over the use of a Jesus & Mo cartoon on the society’s Facebook page. The society, according to the BBC, said Yellon was stepping down to be replaced by [...]
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