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August 2019

August 14, 2019

UKIP’s new leader – the sixth in three years – targets the Koran

THE United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which finished last in this month's Brecon and Radnorshire...

August 13, 2019

Israeli right-winger plans a Gay Pride event in an Arab town

NOAM Federman, above, an Orthodox Jewish man convicted last year of throwing rocks at Palestinians,...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Charities allowed to promote infant mutilation if it ‘advances religion’

I HAD never heard of the The Initiation Society and the charity status it enjoys...

July 21, 2019

Op-ed: Ex-Muslims – a community in protest

When the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) started 11 years ago in June 2007,...

July 19, 2019

Man, sacked for Facebook anti-religious post, is reinstated

BRIAN Leach, above, the UK man sacked by supermarket chain Asda for sharing a video...

July 11, 2019

‘Is a faithless society a better society?’ LBC phone-in fails to excite.

I imagined – I really, REALLY did – that the question above would send flocks...

July 01, 2019

Azerbaijan deals harshly with those who impose religion on kids

THE mainly Muslim country of Azerbaijan, headed by President Ilham Aliyev, above, has a rather surprising...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

NSS castigates vicar over ‘alarming’ relationship teaching article

The National Secular Society's Education and Schools Officer, Alastair Lichten, above, has weighed into a...

June 02, 2019

Seven Islamists fined for operating ‘shariah police’ patrols in Germany

A POSSE of hardline Islamists were fined at the end of May for violating Geman...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Don’t talk about reforming Islam. It will only attract death threats.

THAT'S the lesson learned by Algerian Islamic scholar Saïd Djabelkhir, above, who advocates for a...

May 31, 2019

Lies about gay sex lessons are increasing tensions in Birmingham

The former Chief Prosecutor for Northwest England, Nazir Afzal , above, has accused mainly Muslim...

May 26, 2019

Muslim groups make history by leading Birmingham’s Pride festival

THE controversy in Birmingham over the teaching of relationship lessons took a remarkable turn yesterday...

May 25, 2019

German cardinal: Christians and Muslims worship different gods

I HAVE learned over many decades of writing about religion that there are two types...

May 21, 2019

Man, jailed for 5 days for a Ramadan violation, is freed 6 years on

PAKISTAN'S justice system is ... weird. In 2013 , Jamshed Iqbal was found guilty by...

May 20, 2019

Doc was ‘racist’ for asking a Muslim woman to show her face

A UK doctor – under investigation for 'victimisation and racial discrimination' because he asked a...

May 20, 2019

Equality lessons: protests turn ugly as UK LGBT activists are targeted

LGBT activists, mainly female, were reportedly pelted with eggs last night when they came to...

May 19, 2019

UK vicar made ‘a silly mistake’ by inviting Muslims to pray

THE vicar at St Matthew and St Luke's in Darlington has been criticised for inviting...

May 18, 2019

The rainbow flag ‘has replaced the Christian cross in Ireland’

IN an hysterical rant against Ireland's liberation from the jackboot of Catholicism, Anthony Murphy, above, founder...

May 18, 2019

‘Islamophobia’ definition poses a threat to free speech in the UK

THERE are 'surprising levels' of agreement among many Christians and secularists that the proposed adoption...

May 15, 2019

Violence erupts over mandatory head-coverings at Tehran University

WOMEN resisting a law in Iran that forces them to wear 'modest' clothing and head...

May 12, 2019

Muslim v Muslims: UK relationship teaching row enters new phase

I SEE more trouble looming in Birmingham where mainly Muslims parents have been protesting for...

May 10, 2019

Labour group slammed over ‘no such thing as Islamophobia’ post

ANAS Sarwar, above, chair of Holyrood’s Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia, has hit out at...

May 10, 2019

Hate crime: man arrested for mocking Muslims in a prayer room

ALTHOUGH police have not named him, a man arrested this week for making fun of...

May 08, 2019

‘Blasphemous’ artworks censored at top London gallery

The counter-extremist think-tank Quilliam has reacted with anger to reports that the Saatchi Gallery had covered...

May 06, 2019

Pakistan has angered its costly moon-sighting Ramadan committee

A SUGGESTION that scientists should be brought in to determine precisely when the Muslim month-long...

May 05, 2019

UK authorities shut charity that promoted Islamic terrorist activities

A CHARITY established to advance Islam was used by hate preacher Kamran Hussain, above, to encourage...

May 04, 2019

UK to investigate child sexual abuse in more faith organisations

The UK's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is to widen its probe to...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Meet the woman who uses anal inserts to cure homosexuality

WHEN one thinks of gay 'cures' in an Islamic context stonings, lashings, beheadings and plunges...

April 19, 2019

Passover greeting from UK’s Labour Party angers Jews

THE Labour Party, which has been struggling for months to throw off accusations of anti-Semitism,...

April 19, 2019

Bangladeshi actress forced to apologise for ‘no afterlife’ remarks

IN devoutly Muslim Bangladesh, outrage culture is deeply ingrained, and one has to choose one's...