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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Theology has no place in science, say Russian scientists

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

TEN members of the Russian Academy of Sciences have written an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V Putin stating their ‘deepening concern over the increasing clericalisation of Russian society’, and the Russian Orthodox Church’s infiltration of all areas of public life.The signatories include two Nobel Prize winners Zhores Alferov [...]