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July 2016

July 25, 2016

Muslim teacher's hoodie was offensive to pub customers

Police in Herefordshire are reportedly investigating an incident in which a Muslim teacher was asked...

July 22, 2016

Portaloo company apologises for refusing service to atheists

Hop across to the website of Five Star Septic Services & Portable Toilet Rentals in...

July 17, 2016

Kentucky man photographs 'soul' of fatally injured biker

Saul Vazquez, a truck driver from Powell County, Kentucky, is convinced he captured the moment...

July 14, 2016

Pastor predicts 'genocide and incest park' will rake in billions

Kevin S Aldridge, inset, pastor of St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Milford, Ohio,...

July 12, 2016

Bibles in schools should be the basis of an 'educated' America

The Republican party is the midst of a jolly old gabfest ahead of its national...

July 06, 2016

Muslim taxi driver sacked over refusal to transport a guide dog

A taxi company in Leicester has sacked one of its employees and apologised to a...

July 05, 2016

When evangelical Internet troll Bob Hutton comes calling

THIS being a quiet Saturday evening, I thought I'd address the problem of the Internet...

July 04, 2016

Pupils at illegal Jewish school put at risk by untrained staff

Last month it was reported here that dozens of schoolchildren trapped on a beach at...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Jehovah's Witnesses vandalise ancient Mexican heritage site

An indigenous archaeological heritage site in central eastern Mexico has reportedly been vandalised by Jehovah's...

June 24, 2016

South African Bible-thumper says blacks 'are not people'

André Slade, above, found himself at the centre of a firestorm in South Africa this...

June 24, 2016

Faced with a protest, pastor says 'back off, we've got guns'

Last week, Pastor Donnie Romero of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, said he...

June 20, 2016

Orlando victims support sign infuriates Christian homophobe

A sign outside a Buckinghamshire coffee shop – the Bar Bar Black Sheep in Wolverton...

June 19, 2016

Texas voters reject deranged education board candidate

Mary Lou Bruner, above, a 69-year-old former schoolteacher, this week lost her bid to for...

June 16, 2016

Islamic 'smartphone' promoter lectures on music and dancing

In search of a picture to illustrate a report about leaflets found at a Muslim...

June 12, 2016

Iranian imam says 'immodest women' are destroying a river

Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-Nejad, above, is a 'prominent' imam . . . and a misogynistic prat....

June 10, 2016

Watch a safe driving champion preach … while driving a truck

Back in 2013 Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert, above, successfully sponsored a bill which made...

June 05, 2016

Technology + religion = a phallic Islamic smartphone

Dr Zakir Naik, an anti-Semitic Salafist hate preacher, has released 'Peace Mobile 2', the second...

June 05, 2016

In Germany, it is illegal to poke fun at religion on holy days

Not a lot of people know this, but every Germany state has ‘holiday laws’ that...

June 01, 2016

Row erupts over Christian shop that won't sell Catholic goods

Muriel Swan, 61, above, was 'left reeling' when she was told that The Mustard Seed Christian...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Turkish President Erdogan tells Muslims: 'Go forth and multiply'

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has equated birth control to treason and harshly opposed gender equality,...

May 28, 2016

What drives religious folk to venerate grisly old relics?

A small bit of bone, 'believed' to be a fragment of St Thomas Becket's elbow,...

May 26, 2016

Saudi cleric says Islam forbids folk being pictured with cats

The delightful picture above accompanies an article in the Daily Sabah about the 'peaceful cohabition'...

May 24, 2016

Swiss Guards get 'powerful' weapons: 'combat rosaries'

Catholics are just ... weird. I know this because I keep getting emails from the...

May 22, 2016

Gay men can't be 'alpha males' says AFA representative

Sandy Rios, above, a representative of the the right-wing American Family Association this week criticised...

May 19, 2016

Wizard in frock slams America over gays and transsexuals

Cardinal Robert Sarah, who has the exalted title of Prefect for the Congregation of Divine...

May 17, 2016

Muslim cleric claims Christians worship Jesus Christ's penis

I cracked up laughing, and you will probably too, when you watch Egyptian cleric Ahmed...

May 15, 2016

Tyson Fury: 'It's hard to follow religion in today's world'

When asked in a newly-released video why he has never been backed by 75 percent...

May 15, 2016

Demented woman armed with Bible targets Target store

Furious over the fact that the retail chain has refused to back down over its...

May 10, 2016

Bible & gun nut threatened to hang seven Arkansas mayors

Maverick Dean Bryan, 55, of Mineral Springs, Arkansas – awaiting trial on seven counts of...

May 09, 2016

Potholes defy the power of prayer in Jackson, Mississippi

Back in August, 2015, the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Tony Yarber, told sceptical citizens that...