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US bus company’s rejection of an atheist ad sparks a lawsuit
Residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania, are a godly bunch. So devout, in fact, that a local bus company rejected the ad pictured above because it feared the word ‘atheists’ it might spark violence. The...
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‘Nazi pug’ case: Scottish court finds man guilty of hate crime
Mark Meechan, 30, pictured above with a pug called Buddha, will be sentenced next month after he was found guilty this week of posting a video on YouTube that was ‘anti-semitic and racist in nature’....
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Indian cartoonist who ‘hurt Hindu feelings’ faces charges
The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an English daily, for a cartoon she created in response to high profile rape cases in India. According to...
View Article‘Nazi dog’ man Mark Meechan vows to appeal £800.00 fine
The fine was imposed on Meechan, above right, at Airdrie Sheriff Court a month after he was found guilty of a hate crime: posting a video on YouTube of a pug giving ‘Nazi’ salutes. According to this...
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‘Hollywood’s hatred of Trump is unreal’ says Franklin Graham
US evangelist Franklin Graham hit out at Robert De Niro this week after the Hollywood actor said ‘Fuck Trump’ at the Tony Awards – and got a standing ovation for doing so. As it was live TV on a delay...
View ArticleHarvard man sacked for ‘anti-Semitic’ circumcision show
Beneath a recently uploaded YouTube video of his one-man show Sex & Circumcision: An American Love Story, anti-circumcision activist Eric Clopper revealed that Harvard has sacked him – and that he...
View ArticleBlasphemy: NSS blasts Imran Khan for siding with fanatics
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan wasn’t happy that a prophet Mohammed cartoon competition – now scrapped – was due to be held in the Netherlands in November. In fact, he was so angry that he called...
View ArticleIreland to vote next month on abolishing blasphemy law
Following a call last month by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) for the abolition of blasphemy law in Ireland, it was announced this week that the Irish will have a chance to kick...
View ArticleExcluding non-believers: veteran UK atheist takes on the BBC – again!
If there’s a battle to be fought for non-religious voices to be heard in social and political spheres, you can bet your bottom dollar that Barbara Smoker will be among those leading the charge for...
View ArticleA brief history of New Zealand’s now dead blasphemy law
NEW Zealand no longer has a blasphemy law, having decided yesterday to scrap the archaic offence of blasphemous libel, a ‘crime’ dating back to 1840 which had its origins in Britain. This prompted me...
View ArticleEx-Muslim’s scheduled talk cancelled by Canadian university
On March 1 we reported that Oxford University’s student newspaper, Cherwell, published an interview with Armin Navabi, above, founder of Atheist Republic – but refused to allow the interview to be...
View ArticleFemale team running Vatican publication resigns en masse
Eleven women working for a supplement published monthly by the daily L’Osservatore Romano newspaper have walked out, saying they had been the victim of a campaign to discredit them and put them ‘under...
View Article‘Persecuted’ Christians jubilant over rare UK court victory
ANDREA Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre – an outfit that has suffered defeat after defeat in cases involving Christians sacked for their mainly...
View ArticleTrump declares Judaism a ‘nationality’. Liberal Jews are appalled.
OUTRAGE has erupted among liberal American Jews in the wake of a New York Times report this week that President Trump plans to sign an executive order that will effectively classify Judaism as a race...
View ArticleProf tells student that scripture’s inappropriate in academic papers
A CHRISTIAN student supportive of LGBT rights was told by a professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers University-New Brunswick that he should avoid quoting Bible verses in academic papers because of...
View ArticleFree speech victory: Brazil’s Supreme Court lifts Jesus parody ban
THE brouhaha in Brazil over Netflix’s The First Temptation of Christ took a new turn on Thursday when the Supreme Court has overturned a ruling the previous day against the streaming service. Netflix...
View ArticleFrench President: Blasphemy is no crime & religion can be mocked
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has added his voice to the thousands who have spoken out in defence of a schoolgirl forced into hiding after she criticised Islam. According to the Guardian Macron, in...
View ArticleLeading Irish atheist wades into the Dawkins disinvitation row
THE CHAIR of Atheist Ireland Michael Nugent has written to the Historical Society at Trinity College Dublin, known as the Hist, asking it to reconsider its recent decision to drop Professor Richard...
View ArticleGETTR free speech platform that actually works, Mr Miller
THE half-man, half-melon pictured above is a former Trump aide Jason Miller who used the Fourth of July to officially launch a YUGE new platform with a promise of unfettered free speech to American...
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‘The best way to combat bad speech is with good speech’– interview with...
Maryam Namazie is the founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and a founding member of One Law for All. Born in Iran, she moved to the US in 1983 after the revolution of 1979, and to the UK in...
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