ON the same day that a British barrister was reported as saying that sharia was “compatible with human rights”, and was good for the “community as a whole”, a Muslim fanatic forced the cancellation of a discussion of Islamic law at a London university on Monday. Jennifer Hardy, President of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism [...]
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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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IN what Tajikistani police believe to be a religiously-motivated attack, a young man dressed as Ded Moroz – Father Frost, the Slavic equivalent of Santa Claus – was stabbed to death yesterday. A stock photo of Ded Moroz Parviz Davlatbekov, 24, fell victim to a mob as he visited relatives in the early hours of [...]
IN A belated Christmas message to the nation, Sheikh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, Ghana’s Chief Imam, claimed that, even though it was “becoming a thing of the past”, homosexuality needs to be firmly opposed. Sharubutu, who heads the Nuuru-Usmaniyyah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (NUSMAN) used his festive message on Tuesday to commend religious leaders for [...]
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I RECENTLY discovered Ben C O Grimm’s Atheism News Magazine – and have been regularly checking into it to see what’s going on in the mad, bad world of religion. The reports on Grimm’s site are, by and large, pretty grim, the most horrifying today being the Christmas day attacks by mad Muslims in Nigeria [...]
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 [...]
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