On trial for blasphemy: the Freethinker’s first editor and offensive cartoons
George William Foote was born in Plymouth in humble circumstances on 11 January 1850. His father died when…
Religion and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid on the Islamists, the ideological Left, and the difficulty of finding a pragmatic solution to the Israel-Palestine problem.
Cannibal Speaks Out
After years of trauma, a Cannibal has finally broken his silence about the discrimination that he and other members of his community continue to face from wider society.
Secular conservatives? If only…
In the United States we are experiencing not a culture war, but something more like a culture Armageddon.…
Secularism and the limits of progress?
Patrick J. Corbeil, Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan) •…
Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker
June is Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines blasphemy as ‘profane talk of…
The price of criticising Islam in northern Nigeria: imprisonment or death
The humanist Mubarak Bala has been sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment in Kano, Nigeria, for blasphemous Facebook posts. In the same region, a Christian college student has been murdered for supposed blasphemy.