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November 2017

November 19, 2017

Turkish authorities have just ramped up their war on gays

In June this year Turkish police viciously attacked participants at a gay pride march on...

November 16, 2017

Egypt 'unfortunately' has 866 atheists says TV presenter

It's anyone guess as to how Rania Mahmoud Yassin, above arrived at this figure, but...

November 15, 2017

Australia overwhelming says 'Yes' to same-sex marriage

Following the result of controversial postal ballot, Australia could have same-sex marriage by Christmas –...

November 12, 2017

Paris prayer protest: 'In France we do not worship in the street'

A 'bizarre' confrontation took place in the Paris suburb of Clichy on Friday when a...

November 06, 2017

Islamophobia: row over halal meat erupts in Lancashire

Abdul Hamid Qureshi, above, of the Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM), is calling for a...

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...

November 03, 2017

Bride's bid to escape forced marriage ends in 17 deaths

Aasia Bibi, 21, and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, pictured above in police custody, are accused of...

November 02, 2017

Egyptians have a 'national duty' to rape immodest women

Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh, above, believes that sexual harassment and even rape would discourage women from...

November 01, 2017

BBC's Godslot: 'Deeply boring' but popular with listeners

A poll being run by the BBC that asks 'Does Thought for The Day still...

October 2017

October 29, 2017

'Militant secularists are after our kids' says US law professor

Conservative Catholic thinker and Princeton University law professor Robert George claimed in Washington on October...

October 19, 2017

Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging

Segregation was humiliating. Just the reality of signs that said you couldn't use front doors...

October 13, 2017

NSS welcomes court ruling on school's gender apartheid

The National Secular Society has welcomed a landmark ruling in the Court of Appeal that...

October 02, 2017

Muslims-only laundrettes make Islam look narrow-minded

Last month reports that a laundrette in the town of Muar in Malaysia was operating...

October 01, 2017

Devout Muslim, once jailed for rape, found guilty of assault

Soruth Ali, 42, who served a seven-year prison term in the UK for the 1995...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

Don’t get too excited

Big excitement – we’re told that Saudi Arabia has decided to let women drive. Did...

September 25, 2017

Compulsory hijabs in English schools 'sexualise' young girls

The National Secular Society has lodged a complaint with education authorities over the forced wearing...

September 24, 2017

Women, having only half the brains of men, shouldn't drive

If you're reading this, the world did not, as predicted, end this weekend. Nor, alas,...

September 22, 2017

Religion impacts negatively on the kindness of youngsters

A new study that shows that children from religious families are less kind and more...

September 13, 2017

Hindu woman abducted and forced to marry a Muslim

Arti Kumari Sharma, 20, was allegedly abducted at gunpoint at the weekend in the Khairpur District...

September 10, 2017

Cleric links radical Islamists with violence and segregation

Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam,...

September 07, 2017

Jewish woman, 'poisoned' by bacon, sues Detroit restaurant

An omelet served to Angela Montgomery was supposed to be vegetarian. But when the 30-year-old...

September 04, 2017

In Pakistan, Muslims beat a Christian schoolboy to death

A campaign of bullying and harassment of Sharoon Masih, 17, culminated last week in the...

September 02, 2017

Wales: Feed my Lambs Church accused of being anti-Muslim

Caernarfon councillor Kenny Khan, above, was asked by locals Muslims to find them a venue...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float

Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the...

August 28, 2017

Paper accused of 'generating hatred' in a Muslim report

One of the most widely covered reports in the UK today concerns a 'white Christian'...

August 26, 2017

Pakistan: blasphemy fear gets Lennon's 'Imagine' dumped

Pakistani pupils at the Karachi Grammar School (KGS) were due to sing the John Lennon 'Imagine' last night...

August 24, 2017

Malaysian hotel tells mum that her breast milk is not halal

A five-star hotel in Malacca has been forced to apologise to a woman who was...

August 22, 2017

Belly-dancing Egyptian prof accused of 'glorifying Satan'

Dr Mona Prince, above, of Egypt’s Suez University, has upset her employer by posting a...

August 20, 2017

Protest in Coventry halts circumcision of boy aged 14

On August 1, a teenager posted a message on Reddit ExMuslim, in which he said...

August 18, 2017

Racial hatred: This message got a Newcastle man arrested

Jimmy Lamb, 24, was arrested earlier this month for appearing in public with the slogans,...