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Sudanese President wants Danish aid, but no Danes or Danish products

Friday, February 29, 2008

PRESIDENT Omar al-Bashir wants no Danes on Sudanese soil, nor any Danish products on the shelves.
But, when he embarked an anti-Danish rant this week over the re-publication of the Motoons, he said nothing about returning the generous aid package this ghastly, authoritarian Islamic republic receives from Denmark.
According to Worldwide Religious News, Sudan received $26 million [...]

Filed in Islam, The Freethinker, Vilks, cartoons, sharia | Comments (2)

Laughing religion off the planet - an interview with Pat Condell

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

With over 5 million hits on YouTube, and another couple of million on LiveLeak, Pat Condell is a leading voice of atheism on the internet. He is also a stand-up comedian, a playwright, a former lumberjack, a talk-show panelist, and a subscriber to The Freethinker.

We tracked the blaspheming infidel down to a garden shed in [...]

Filed in Islam, Pat Condell, The Freethinker, interviews, satire | Comments (121)

Be afraid, be VERY afraid of this savage bunny!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

ASSUD the Bunny, star of the Hamas children’s show, The Pioneers of Tomorrow - broadcast on al on Al-Aqsa TV last week - said this of anyone who dares to insult the Prophet Mohammed:
If they do it again, Saraa [Saraa Barhoum, who hosts the show], we will kill them, right? - I will bite [...]

Filed in Islam, The Freethinker, cartoons | Comments (3)

Pakistan pulls the plug on YouTube over its anti-Islamic content

Monday, February 25, 2008

THE popular website YouTube went off-line for around two hours yesterday - all because Pakistan took offence at some of its anti-Islamic content.
According to a BBC report, the site was apparently accidentally brought down almost globally when officials took steps to block access to it within Pakistan. The BBC said the blackout was almost certainly [...]

Filed in Islam, The Freethinker, censorship, motoons | Comments (2)

Middle East earthquakes: It’s the gays what did it

Sunday, February 24, 2008

SIX earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan in recent months, with two coming last week alone - and what is to blame? Homosexuality.
That’s the view of imbecile Shlomo Benizri, MP, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, who, according to the Telegraph, believes that the tremors could be stopped by repealing various liberalising [...]

Filed in General barminess, Human rights, Judaism, The Freethinker, gay | Comments (14)

‘Offensive’ poster banned by Tube bosses

Friday, February 22, 2008

THOSE censorious twats who decide what can and what can’t appear on the walls of the London Underground have made idiots of themselves again - this time by banning a poster for a play at Islington’s King’s Head Theatre.
Tube censors rejected the advert for Fat Christ, a black comedy starring topless model Abi Titmuss, on [...]

Filed in Blasphemy, General barminess, Jesus, Religion and the arts, The Freethinker, atheism, censorship | Comments (1)

Hard-on Jesus exposed at last

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

WHEN Stephen ‘Stay a Virgin, Marry a Virgin’ Green demanded the destruction of gay artist Terence Koh’s Jesus-with-wood figurine (see the original Freethinker report here) we could not find a photograph of the ‘offensive’ piece.
But now, at last, a picture of the foot-high piece has come to light - thanks to the diligence of the [...]

Filed in Christian Voice, General barminess, Jesus, Judaism, Religion and the arts, The Freethinker | Comments (5)

Holland anticipates more Muslim rage

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

HOLLAND is bracing itself for another bout of Islamic rage following the news that the controversial politician Geert Wilders is putting the finishing touches to a short film highly critical of Islam.
According to the Guardian, Wilders has been doing a crash course in Koranic study, from which he deduces that:
Islam is not a religion, it’s [...]

Filed in Blasphemy, Islam, The Freethinker, gay | Comments (2)

Make up your minds - ghost or zombie?

Monday, February 18, 2008

COME on, guys, make up you minds! Is it a ghost or is it a zombie? There is a difference, you know, as any horror film fan will tell you.
We are talking here about the apparition said by the Daily Mail to be haunting a sewage works in the seaside resort of Eastbourne in East [...]

Filed in General barminess, Paranormal | Comments (3)

More Muslim rage after Danish newspapers reprint Moturban cartoon

Sunday, February 17, 2008

CHANTING “Death to the cartoonist”, dozens of Islamist students this week burned the Danish flag in southern Pakistan after the republication of a caricature of Prophet Mohammad.
And In Kuwait, several parliamentarians called for a boycott of Danish goods.
Wailed Waleed al-Tabtabai, a member of parliament:
The government has to take action against Denmark.
Kuwait’s deputy prime minister Faisal [...]