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November 2018

November 03, 2018

Asia Bibi’s, acquitted of blasphemy, faces fresh ordeals

What do you do when mindless Muslim thugs riot and bring your country to a...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Muslims riot in Pakistan as Asia Bibi is cleared of blasphemy

Members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP), a new political party dedicated to punishing blasphemy, blocked roads...

October 28, 2018

Ireland’s vote on blasphemy further removes it from its Catholic roots

A 'medieval' crime that was 'crowbarred' into Ireland's statute books will now be scrapped, thanks...

October 26, 2018

Prophet Mohammed cannot be called a paedophile says ECHR

A few years back Austrian citizen Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted for 'denigrating the teachings of...

October 16, 2018

‘Terrible consequences’ threatened if Pakistan ‘blasphemer’ is freed

Following a decision last week by Pakistan's Supreme Court to reserve judgement in the appeal...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Ireland to vote next month on abolishing blasphemy law

Following a call last month by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) for the...

September 13, 2018

Spanish actor Willy Toledo is in court accused of blasphemy

Free speech advocates gathered in a Madrid cinema last night to protest the detention of...

September 03, 2018

Blasphemy: NSS blasts Imran Khan for siding with fanatics

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan wasn't happy that a prophet Mohammed cartoon competition – now...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Muslim cleric: 'I'd nuke the Netherlands if I had the power'

A firebrand Muslim cleric in Pakistan, Khadim Rizvi, said that if he had the power...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Argentine Culture Minister in hot water for eating Jesus cake

More than 26,000 people have signed a petition calling for sacking of the Culture Minister...

May 09, 2018

Glitzy Catholic fashion event in US attacked from all sides

On Monday night New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's 70th Met Gala made Catholic fashion...

May 07, 2018

Muslims condemn French call to rid the Koran of its nasty bits

The head of the Great Mosque of Bordeaux, Tareq Obrou, above, is one of a...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

In this new church, the Holy Spirit comes in bottles & cans

Around eight months ago 'Pope' Tsietsi Makiti, above, launched a church intended to be a...

April 19, 2018

Indian cartoonist who 'hurt Hindu feelings' faces charges

The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an...

April 10, 2018

Indian court asked to rule on 'blasphemous' movie song

On Sunday it was wanking. Today winking. In February Pakistan's Daily Times reported on how...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule

The scientist and author Richard Dawkins is giving away translations of The God Delusion in...

March 26, 2018

Christians in anger overdrive over Sweet Jesus ice cream

A petition launched in Canada is demanding that Toronto-based chain Sweet Jesus changes its name...

March 14, 2018

Church's 'Stations of the Cross' exhibition sparks controversy

A church in London has been forced to move a life-size statue of a crucified...

January 2018

January 05, 2018

Pakistani judges exonerate man jailed for blasphemy

A 58-year-old Pakistani man, jailed for life in 2009 for blasphemy, was freed last week...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

Holy Cow! Crucified bovine outrages Flemish Catholics.

A 'sodomite artist' named Tom Herck has outraged Catholics by placing a crucified cow in...

November 05, 2017

Islamists in Libya shut down 'blasphemous' comic event

Libya's second Comic Con event was brought to a sudden end on Friday when an...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

New horror movie will outrage Christians, Catholics especially

In a scathing attack on a movie called Mother!, Kyle Smith of The National Review...

June 2017

June 11, 2017

Death sentence for man who blasphemed on Facebook

In a week that saw Canada ditch its 90-year-old blasphemy law, an anti-terrorism court in...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

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...

May 13, 2017

Pokémon Go player sentenced for inciting religious hatred

Ruslan Sokolovsky, above, arrested last August for committing the horrendous crime of playing the video...

May 11, 2017

Stephen Fry case sounds death knell for blasphemy law in NZ

The foolish police investigation of Stephen Fry for allegedly blaspheming on TV in Ireland has...

May 10, 2017

Celebrating apostasy and blasphemy in London in July

The Freethinker interviews Maryam Namazi and Marieme Helie Lucas ahead of the International Conference on...

May 10, 2017

Police halt Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation

An Irish police investigation into allegedly blasphemous comments made by Stephen Fry during a TV...

May 09, 2017

Indonesian Governor jailed for blaspheming against Islam

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, above, better known by his nickname Ahok, has been handed a two-year...

May 07, 2017

Ireland made to look stupid over blasphemy complaint

News that actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry is being investigated for possibly breaching Ireland's...