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January 2018

January 26, 2018

When it was announced by the Trump administration last year that Catholic Kansas Governor Sam...

January 19, 2018

In parts of London Muslims & Jews say they are scared to die

Pressure is being put on a well-respected London coroner, Mary Hassell, above, to resign because...

January 17, 2018

Humanist denied UK asylum

A British Humanist organisation has criticised the UK government for denying asylum to an ex-Muslim,...

January 15, 2018

What on earth was this German TV channel thinking?

This is what’s being shown on German State TV. Germany is running out of time....

January 15, 2018

There is a tsunami of atheism in the 'Muslim world'

I was recently interviewed by Thomas Mahler for the French Le Point. The Freethinker is...

January 13, 2018

Turkish academic claims Noah had a mobile phone & steel ark

Yavuz Örnek, above, a Turkish academic, has become an international figure of fun for claiming...

January 09, 2018

Making babies for Lord Kartik

The Indian province of West Bengal has an absurd Hindu custom that involves the placing...

January 06, 2018

Franklin Graham is warned not to incite hatred in the UK

Despite the fact that almost 7,500 people have signed a petition calling for Graham to...

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...

January 03, 2018

Human rights activist faces death threats in the Maldives

Shahindha Ismail, Executive Director of the Maldives Democracy Network (MDN) is reportedly being investigated by...

January 01, 2018

Clerics to get new powers to monitor TV output in Indonesia

Self-censorship in Indonesia has reached absurd heights in Indonesia, spurred by the fears that stations...

January 01, 2018

'Astonishingly realistic' Jesus winds up in Muslim hands

Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (Christ the Saviour of the World) sold in auction in...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Thanks to Islam, diphtheria cases spike in Indonesia

Campaigns by hard-line Indonesian Muslim leaders are reportedly undermining government drives against vaccination-preventable diseases –...

December 31, 2017

Charges against 'Islamophobic' UK street preacher dropped

Christian Concern is crowing over a decision to drop charges against street preacher Pastor Oluwole...

December 30, 2017

Exposed Muslim hate preacher suddenly changes his tune

Earlier this month Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan of Houston’s Tajweed Institute delivered a sermon in...

December 23, 2017

Egypt to ban atheism, believing it endangers mental health

In 2014, little more than a week after Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi was sworn in as Egypt’s...

December 22, 2017

Indonesian Islamist extremists have their claws out for Santa

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) warned this week that it would conduct 'sweeping operations' to...

December 21, 2017

The BBC's top radio man, James Purnell, is an atheist

And for some this is a huge problem because religious programming forms part of his...

December 19, 2017

Nottingham-based Muslim radio station falls foul of Ofcom

For the second time this year, Radio Dawn has fallen foul of rules laid down...

December 16, 2017

Court setback for Indonesia's Islamic Family Love Alliance

If there's one thing one can always be certain about is this: if religious organisations...

December 14, 2017

Miss Iraq's peace gesture leads to death threats in Iraq

When Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, right, posed last month for a picture with Miss Israel,...

December 10, 2017

Street preacher and gun nut beats hate speech conviction

Daniel Courney, 33, a deranged evangelist who was convicted earlier this year of using “threatening...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Religion left out in the cold as Oz debates same-sex marriage

Opponents of gay marriage in Australia suffered defeat after defeat yesterday when religious exemptions were...

November 28, 2017

Birmingham hosts a 'faith summit'. What was the point?

Yesterday, around 400 True Believers™ converged on the University of Birmingham for a multi-faith event...

November 28, 2017

So, young Iftikhar, what did they teach you in school today?

'That, as a male, I'm superior to women and that, when I marry, I'm permitted...

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 25, 2017

Atheism in Malaysia must be crushed, says deputy PM

Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, above, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, has proposed that any ideology deemed...

November 24, 2017

The elephant in the room is a god, ad watchdog decides

In September we reported that Hindus were rebuffed by Australia's Advertising Standards Board, which found...

November 23, 2017

God: A Human History – a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan

'Religion scholar' Reza Aslan's new book, God: A Human History, traces the human relationship with...

November 22, 2017

Abuse of children in Pakistan's madrassas is rife, say report

The photo above, showing a distraught Pakistani mother, Kausar Parveen, comforting her nine-year-old son who had...