THERE’S a surprise entry on the shortlist of a poll to decide “who will be crowned 2007′s most scurrilous enemy of reason”. The “Bad Faith” poll is being conducted by the excellent New Humanist via its website. There’ve been months of nominations, but now the shortlist has gone up, and it contains several rather predictable suspects, [...]
God moves in mysterious ways. Now it’s up (or down) the tube. From the people who invented God (i.e. religionists), here’s GodTube. We kid you not. Never let it be said that The Freethinker is not willing to introduce its blog readers to new and challenging ideas. Take this (cited by a piece on the [...]
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AN Iranian-born politician who heads a Dutch group for ex-Muslims is being given additional police protection after he was attacked near his home, a spokesman for the National Co-ordinator for Counterterrorism has announced. The attack on Ehsan Jami has caused an outcry in the Netherlands, where a filmmaker critical of Islam was murdered in an [...]
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