JOURNALISTS and police were roughed up, stones were thrown and refuse bins set alight in the Israeli town of Beth Shemeth yesterday when hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men got stroppy in defence of rules they have imposed to segregate their womenfolk – or chattels as they tend to regard them. Zealots in the town, according [...]
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AN online petition has been launched, calling on the Nigerian authorities to investigate a very public assault on a teenage girl by a self-styled “bishop”. The ‘bishop’ was caught on camera delivering the slap (click on pic to view the entire incident) During a “deliverance” service at Otta, in Ogun state, “Bishop” David Oyedepo, general [...]
THE latest insanity to be exposed in Jerusalem, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Taliban is fast increasing its influence, is an attempt to silence women singing in public. Yakov Halperin Yakov Halperin, a religious member of Jerusalem’s City Council, said: The voice of a woman can be fine … the problem we have is with women [...]
The latest report out of Saudi Arabia concerning the mad activities of the purity police suggests they are now considering a ban on the display of sexy eyes – women’s eyes, that is. The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) have apparently detected instances of provocative eye displays in [...]
WE KNOW that chickens have to cross the road to avoid unpleasant, dizzying encounters with ultra-Orthodox Jews, but now we learn that women, too, should take avoidance measures when the Men in Black come their way. Signs telling Jewish females to steer clear of oncoming Orthodox Jewish men have, according to this report, created a [...]
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COOKING for a husband and taking care of his clothes isn’t good enough; a dutiful wife needs to keep her man “entertained” as well. That’s the view of a spokeswoman for The Obedient Wife Club, which is being launched today in Malaysia with the aim of teaching women how to please their husbands better to [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
