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May 2017

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...

April 2017

April 09, 2017

Bible pest Michael Jones gets £3,000 payout from police

The annoying evangelist who upset people in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley with his...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Good news: Singapore blogger is granted asylum in the US

Teenage blogger Amos Yee, above, who was jailed twice in Singapore for posting political and...

March 13, 2017

Secular Muslim warns against 'predators of liberty' in the UK

Maajid Usman Nawaz, above, a politician, broadcaster and an honorary associate of the National Secular...

March 13, 2017

UK man, critical of Christianity, is banned from churches

Robert Skynner, above – creator of The Christian Comedy Channel on YouTube who was jailed...

March 01, 2017

Doors slamming shut in the US

Trump’s war on free everything is raging right along over here. (I apologize for his...

March 01, 2017

Hey 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...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Freethinker editor to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award

THE board of G W Foote and Company, publishers of the Freethinker, are delighted to...

December 2016

December 18, 2016

MP slams BBC for vilifying Olympic athlete Louis Smith

Conservative MP Charles Walker has accused the BBC of placing itself 'firmly at the head...

December 10, 2016

Dutch politician Geert Wilders guilty of racial discrimination

Dutch politician Geert Wilders, convicted yesterday of inciting racial discrimination against Moroccans living in the Netherlands,...

December 02, 2016

Expelled from Boston Atheists for Thought Crime

I have written for the atheist/secular humanist press since 1974, when my first article appeared...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

Prime Minister Theresa May questioned over Smith ban

It's good to see free speech advocates vigorously fighting back against the ludicrous suspensions imposed...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Muslim TV presenter slams press watchdog's ruling

Fatima Manji, above, claims that a 'green light for newspapers to attack minorities and Muslims...

October 19, 2016

Former Charlie Hebdo religion editor attacks 'fascist' Islam

Zineb El Rhazoui, above, has published a book in France entitled Detruire Le Fascisme Islamique...

October 19, 2016

Contrite gymnast Louis Smith misses parade to visit mosques

Louis Smith, above right, the UK gymnast who offended Muslims by ridiculing Islamic prayer, missed...

October 03, 2016

Egyptian TV presenter approves shooting of Jordanian writer

Reporting on the assassination a week ago of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, Hani Nahhas, above,...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Teenage blogger jailed in Singapore for the second time

Fifteen months after he was given a prison sentence for 'wounding religious feelings', teenage blogger...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

Charlie Hebdo again sparks fury with bare Muslims cover

Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, unleashed a fresh wave of death threats last week...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

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...

July 18, 2016

Thank Islam for freedom, justice and democratic values

Was the Independent having a laugh when it ran a piece at the weekend entitled...

June 2016

June 25, 2016

Censorship is being forced on Facebook over atheist pages

A coordinated campaign by fundamentalist Islamic groups has led to Facebook shutting down a number...

June 09, 2016

Lashes & prison for Saudi man who posted atheist messages

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and...

June 06, 2016

Despicable culture of blaming victims persists in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has become 'one of the most dangerous places on Earth to suggest in public...

May 2016

May 28, 2016

Singapore authorities still gunning for atheist blogger

A further eight charges have been brought against Amos Yee, 17, who was convicted last...

May 19, 2016

Center for Inquiry helps blogger escape from Bangladesh

Shammi Haque, 22, a secular writer and activist threatened by militant Islamists in Bangladesh has...

May 18, 2016

Idiots 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...

May 13, 2016

Internet 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...

May 05, 2016

eBay removes award-winning Mohammed cartoon listing

Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim who won the 'Draw Mohammed' cartoon contest attacked by terrorists...

May 05, 2016

PM's planned war against 'extremists' is floundering

A while back, in response to an 'absurd' UK plan to silence individuals and organisations...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Erdogan is not amused

Free thought is not just thought itself in the narrow sense – it has many...