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MP slams BBC for vilifying Olympic athlete Louis Smith
Conservative MP Charles Walker has accused the BBC of placing itself ‘firmly at the head of the mob’ who attacked Louis Smith for lampooning Islam. Walker also said the Government was “nowhere to be...
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Freethinker editor to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award
THE board of G W Foote and Company, publishers of the Freethinker, are delighted to learn that Barry Duke, above, who has edited the Freethinker for 20 years, is to receive a Lifetime’s Achievement...
View ArticleHey coppers, please leave preachers free to rant and rave
I’ve said so in the past, and I’ll repeat it again. Street preachers are clowns and and should be left to spout whatever drivel they they want without let or hindrance. People are can choose to listen...
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Doors slamming shut in the US
Trump’s war on free everything is raging right along over here. (I apologize for his manners toward Theresa May. He just doesn’t know how to act. That hand-holding thing was gruesome, and we’re all...
View ArticleUK man, critical of Christianity, is banned from churches
Robert Skynner, above – creator of The Christian Comedy Channel on YouTube who was jailed for eight weeks for harassing a Christian couple – has now been barred from entering any church or place of...
View ArticleSecular Muslim warns against ‘predators of liberty’ in the UK
Maajid Usman Nawaz, above, a politician, broadcaster and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society today hit out at the Muslims who aimed death threats and abuse at a young teenage girl who...
View ArticleGood news: Singapore blogger is granted asylum in the US
Teenage blogger Amos Yee, above, who was jailed twice in Singapore for posting political and religious criticism online, has been granted asylum in the United States, according to the BBC. Yee, 18, was...
View ArticleBible pest Michael Jones gets £3,000 payout from police
The annoying evangelist who upset people in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley with his persistent street preaching was awarded the cash by Humberside Police after charges of religious harassment...
View ArticleCelebrating apostasy and blasphemy in London in July
The Freethinker interviews Maryam Namazi and Marieme Helie Lucas ahead of the International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression in the 21 Century scheduled to take place in London...
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Why is Facebook silencing atheist and ex-Muslim voices?
The answer, according to Muhammad Syed, above, President of the Ex-Muslims of North America, is that Islamic fundamentalists are systematically attacking Facebook pages they do not like. Syed,...
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Dagbladet’s anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities to take action against Dagbladet, a Norwegian paper that published an anti-circumcision...
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Muslim Council of Britain chief condemns Manchester atrocity
In the wake of last night’s terrorist attack which killed 22, including children, and injured 59, Harun Khan, above, General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain said: May the perpetrators face...
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Hopes that New Zealand would bin its blasphemy laws dashed
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...
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US radio station slammed for cancelling Dawkins event
A radio station in Berkeley, California, has pulled the plug on a talk scheduled to be given by Professor Richard Dawkins in August, much to the fury of free speech advocates. KPFA, organisers of the...
View ArticleFire Brigades Union called out over heated Pride blog post
The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) is awaiting a response from the Fire Brigades Union to a letter it wrote after a member of the union said in a blog post that there should be no place at...
View ArticleCalifornians will get to hear Dawkins promote his new book
Just days after Berkeley public radio station KPFA abruptly cancelled a talk by Professor Richard Dawkins, citing his ‘Islamophobia’ as the reason, a bookshop in Corte Madera, Marin County, has stepped...
View ArticleGerman courts refuse to take pasta-based religion seriously
A legal battle over whether or not the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is an ideological organisation could end up in the European Court of Justice, according to the church’s chairman Rüdiger...
View ArticleMeat ad moaners told to get lost by advertising watchdog
Australia’s Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has dismissed complaints filed by Hindu groups against a controversial advertisement which featured Lord Ganesha at a nosh-up attended by a collection of...
View ArticleFlorida pastor vows to destroy planned Satanic holiday display
Pastor Mark Boykin, above, senior pastor at the Church of All Nations in Boca Raton, has a sledgehammer. And he told media this week that he plans to use it to knock down a display due to be set up in...
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Gagged priest gets his voice back and attacks xenophobia
A few years back priest and journalist Fr Adam Boniecki, above, angered the Catholic Church in Poland by sounding off about its too cozy relationship with racist, right-wing elements in the country....
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