THE National Secular Society has described as “beyond absurd” a Bibles-for-Beaks campaign headed by former Conservative Cabinet member Lord Mackay of Clashfern. Mackay, 83, acts as Honorary President of the Scottish Bible Society (SBS), and has invited sheriffs and judges to refamiliarise themselves with biblical principles, and act accordingly when presiding over court cases. Critics [...]
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IN WHAT turned out to be the biggest anti-sharia law demonstration ever staged in the UK, hundreds of people gathered in London on Sunday to support the One Law for All rally to show their opposition to Sharia and other religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere, and to demand universal rights, equality and secularism. A [...]
THREE Muslim women – the first in Malaysia to be caned for illicit sex – claim that their punishment was an opportunity for them to repent of their sins, according to this report. Prison authorities caned the women on February 9 after an Islamic court passed sentence. The caning has outraged rights groups and revived [...]
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A MOROCCAN man campaigning to change the law which prohibits eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week. Radi Omar denied that his group was anti-Islam. He told the BBC: We are in favour of individual freedom. Six of his colleagues are in custody after planning [...]
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BOY, is the bearded weirdie Rowan Williams a glutton for punishment! A year after the Archbishop of Cant prompted howls of outrage by suggesting that it “seems inevitable” that some parts of Islamic law would be enshrined in this country’s legal code, he has bounced back claiming that “a number of fairly senior people” now [...]
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DESPITE the fact that Islamic (sharia) law is generally thought of as a threat to social cohesion in Britain; that it serves Muslim women badly, and that it is opposed by many Muslims themselves, including Shahid Malik, the Labour MP – it continues to grow in influence the UK . This is most likely because [...]
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