BANGLADESHI authorities have arrested a cartoonist after drawings that Muslims said insulted their religion were published in a national newspaper, according to an AP report.
A Home Ministry statement said Arifur Rahman’s sketches — titled “Name” — that came out on Monday in a weekly supplement of the Prothom Alo — “hurt the religious sentiments of [...]
TWO people are dead in Bangalore following the torching of a bus after a politician questioned the existence of the Hindu god Ram. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had earlier said:
Who is this Ram? From which engineering college did he graduate?
Karunanidhi was referring to controversy that erupted earlier this month when the Indian [...]
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THE HIV/AIDS pandemic is a curse and punishment because people have engaged in immoral acts and offended Allah. They have to repent, observe religious teaching and not use condoms.
This is the view of Maalim Hussein Mohamud, a teacher at a madrassa, or Islamic school, in Mandera, Kenya, near the Somali border. Mohamud adds:
Our position is [...]
DR Who is set to feature in a church service to entice younger worshippers, according to a report this week in the London paper Metro.
A Cardiff congregation are being invited to compare “a Time Lord with the Lord of Time” at a special Dr Who-themed service at the Anglican church used as a location two [...]
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Female civil servants must wear Islamic headscarves or be fired, the maverick head of Russia’s Chechnya region said this week – and Ramzan Kadyrov, the son of a Muslim cleric went on to say that women were the root of all crime committed in Chechnya because they were inviting men to have sex with them.
Kadyrov [...]
COMIC Kathy Griffin’s “offensive” remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will not be seen by TV audiences, the US Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said today.
According to Perthnow, Griffin made the provocative comment last Saturday when she took the stage of the Shrine Auditorium to collect her Emmy for best reality [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
