Just when I thought I’d uncovered every conceivable threat by fundamentalist Islam to our Western way of life, along comes another. While researching a piece on Islam’s attitude towards the arts for the next edition of the Freethinker, I came across an article in the Brussels Journal, which included the following [...]
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I was in the middle of writing a piece today which effectively argues that one cannot engage the unengageable, when this story broke about a Muslim woman who was arrested for listening to music on an MP3 player while on jury duty at a London murder trial. She was wearing headphones under her hijab.
The piece [...]
Multi-talented George Melly - jazz singer, raconteur, writer, expert on surrealism and dedicated humanist - died today aged 80. He had been suffering lung cancer and dementia, but was still performing at various gigs around the UK during the earlier part of this year.
I first met George around 30 years ago when he was performing [...]
Posting a comment on mediawatchwatch recently, a visitor to the site wondered whether Rage Boy was the Muslim world’s equivalent of Animal, of the Muppets fame. Certainly, there are similarities, as the photo above indicates.
Up until now, Kashmir’s Buster Bloodvessel has only been known as Rage Boy, and photographs of him raging against motoons, [...]
Photo: Barry Duke
Possessed of the Holy Spirit, joyous Christians, oozing happiness, feel that their mission in life is to spread their delusional bliss among everyone else. This ecstatic individual was spotted in London trying to impart “good news” to the heathen hordes. But what was on his placard?
Post your suggestions, and you could win something [...]
If it had been mounted in any city other than Brighton, an exhibition in June featuring the work of artist Dan Baldwin would probably have drawn howling packs of holy-rollers demanding its immediate closure.
But the large crowds who descended on the art gallery Ink’d were not there to protest; they were driven instead by their [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
