Following last night’s terror attack in London that claimed the lives of seven and injured 48, Prime Minister Theresa May said that the terrorists had been bound to an ‘ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth’. It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and […]
Apparently emboldened by President Trump’s failure to raise concerns about human rights abuses on his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, a Saudi has upheld a death sentence imposed on a disabled man who was arrested after he attended a protest. According to this report, Munir al-Adam, 23, above, was beaten so badly he lost hearing in […]
Yesterday Taiwan’s highest court ‘imposed homosexuality-based marriage’ on the island nation, much to the annoyance of Brian Camenker, a right wing loon who believes that gays want to throw Christians like him into concentration camps. Camenker heads MassResistance, a “pro-family” outfit intent on spreading homophobia across the globe. In 2015 he told the World Congress […]
Last week we reported that New Zealand was on the brink of scrapping its blasphemy laws, but today, to the anger of many, politicians voted to keep them. At least for a while longer. According to this report, parliament had the opportunity to remove decades-old anti-blasphemy laws but bailed out yesterday, leaving blasphemy an offence punishable […]
It’s become increasingly obvious over the past few years that the Orthodox Church has been driving Russia towards a virulent form of Christian fundamentalism. Now it even has a presence in the lower house of the Russian Parliament – the Duma – in the form of the Commission for the Protection of Christian Values that […]
Following the arrest last month of Muslim Dr Jumana Nagarwala, accused of mutilating girls for religious reasons, the Michigan Senate yesterday approved legislation making FGM a state felony. Doctors who perform the procedure and parents who transport a child to undergo the surgery now face jail sentences of up to 15 years. A sponsor of […]
Australia can’t bring itself to legalise same-sex marriage because of interference from Christian prodnoses. That’s the view of Penny Wong, above, the Labor opposition leader in the Senate, who said in her Frank Walker Memorial Lecture in Sydney today that marriage equality: Languishes in the too hard basket because of the intransigence of those who […]
The White House is planning announce that a religious zealot – Callista Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich – will be be the next ambassador to the Vatican. The announcement, according to this report, is expected ahead of Trump’s meeting with Pope Francis on May 24 in Rome. This is what is known […]
The foolish police investigation of Stephen Fry for allegedly blaspheming on TV in Ireland has prompted New Zealand to scrap its blasphemy law. According to this report, David Seymour, above, leader of ACT, a minor opposition party, instigated the move, saying lawmakers of all stripes wanted to end what they saw as an archaic curb […]
When Bryan Fischer, above, of the American Family Association, realised that a religious freedom order signed by President Trump this week was devoid of the anti-LGBT rhetoric contained in the original draft, he angrily accused Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, of sabotage. Before Trump’s signature had time to dry, the deranged Fischer, purple with rage, fired off […]