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PM’s planned war against ‘extremists’ is floundering
A while back, in response to an ‘absurd’ UK plan to silence individuals and organisations it regards as ‘extreme’, the National Secular Society launched a campaign to fight the new proposal. Headed...
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eBay removes award-winning Mohammed cartoon listing
Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim who won the ‘Draw Mohammed’ cartoon contest attacked by terrorists last May in Garland, Texas, says that his drawing has been removed from eBay. According to this...
View ArticleInternet brings Dawkins’ The God Delusion to the Arab world
Millions are reading The God Delusion in Arabic, according to Kacem El Ghazzali, above, an atheist writer from Morocco who has been living as a refugee in Switzerland since 2011. In this article, El...
View ArticleIdiots who taunted Muslims with pig’s head are in the clear
The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals bench has ruled that a bunch of Christian psychos, called the Bible Believers, were exercising their right to free speech when they targeted a 2012 Arab-American...
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Center for Inquiry helps blogger escape from Bangladesh
Shammi Haque, 22, a secular writer and activist threatened by militant Islamists in Bangladesh has been granted asylum in Germany. The US-based Center for Inquiry reported this week that they provided...
View ArticleSingapore authorities still gunning for atheist blogger
A further eight charges have been brought against Amos Yee, 17, who was convicted last year for making offensive remarks against Christianity and posting ‘obscene’ images online. According to this...
View ArticleDespicable culture of blaming victims persists in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has become ‘one of the most dangerous places on Earth to suggest in public that gay people might have rights or that Islam might not have all the answers’, according to an article in The...
View ArticleLashes & prison for Saudi man who posted atheist messages
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of social media posts. The Independent reports that the 28-year-old man...
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Censorship is being forced on Facebook over atheist pages
A coordinated campaign by fundamentalist Islamic groups has led to Facebook shutting down a number of Arabic atheist pages. According to this report, the social media platform has removed more than 16...
View ArticleThank Islam for freedom, justice and democratic values
Was the Independent having a laugh when it ran a piece at the weekend entitled The truth about whether Islamic values are compatible with Western values? Certainly, many of its readers thought so. Over...
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Danish editor sparks free speech row in South Africa
Flemming Rose, above, of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, was due to deliver an academic freedom lecture in August to students at the University of Cape Town, but, because the university’s...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo again sparks fury with bare Muslims cover
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, unleashed a fresh wave of death threats last week with the publication of an edition showing two naked Muslims, along with the words ‘Musulmans …...
View ArticleTeenage blogger jailed in Singapore for the second time
Fifteen months after he was given a prison sentence for ‘wounding religious feelings’, teenage blogger Amos Yee, above, was today sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for a similar ‘crime’ and fined...
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Egyptian TV presenter approves shooting of Jordanian writer
Reporting on the assassination a week ago of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, Hani Nahhas, above, of Alhadas Elyoum TV, told viewers that Hattar’s “blasphemy” did not count as free speech and...
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Contrite gymnast Louis Smith misses parade to visit mosques
Louis Smith, above right, the UK gymnast who offended Muslims by ridiculing Islamic prayer, missed a parade of British Olympian athletes in London yesterday – because he was attending two mosques. The...
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Former Charlie Hebdo religion editor attacks ‘fascist’ Islam
Zineb El Rhazoui, above, has published a book in France entitled Detruire Le Fascisme Islamique (Destroy Islamic Fascism) which she dedicates to ‘Muslim atheists’ and will no doubt increase the...
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Muslim TV presenter slams press watchdog’s ruling
Fatima Manji, above, claims that a ‘green light for newspapers to attack minorities and Muslims in particular’ has been given by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) which dismissed a...
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Prime Minister Theresa May questioned over Smith ban
It’s good to see free speech advocates vigorously fighting back against the ludicrous suspensions imposed on Olympic gymnasts Louis Smith and Luke Carson for mocking Islamic prayer. A petition has been...
View ArticleExpelled from Boston Atheists for Thought Crime
I have written for the atheist/secular humanist press since 1974, when my first article appeared in the venerable British monthly, The Freethinker (established 1881). I remember that, from time to...
View ArticleDutch politician Geert Wilders guilty of racial discrimination
Dutch politician Geert Wilders, convicted yesterday of inciting racial discrimination against Moroccans living in the Netherlands, is to appeal against the verdict reached by what he earlier described...
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