A GAY Christian who won a claim against the Church of England has been awarded more than £47,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal - but it appears that the church won’t have to pay a penny in legal costs.
Anni Holden, spokeswoman for the diocese of Hereford, told the BBC that the legal costs of [...]
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A GOVERNMENT minister today warned that inbreeding among Muslim immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects.
Phil Woolas, an environment minister, is quoted in the Sunday Times that culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the ‘elephant in the room’. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said:
If you have a child with your [...]
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THE murderous Iranian regime is contemplating a mandatory death sentence for people who leave Islam, according to the human rights group, the Institute on Religion and Public Policy (IRPP).
For the first time in Iranian history, a proposed penal code demands the death penalty for apostates, according to a February 5 statement by the IRPP.
Said IRPP [...]
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MUSLIM fanatic Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Qatar-based cleric who defends suicide attacks, hates Jews and calls for the execution of homosexuals, has been refused a visa to enter to the UK after a campaign by Conservative leader David Cameron.
And the Muslim Council of Britain is not happy. The MCB deplores the decision and accuses the [...]
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OUR suspicion that the Archbishop of Cant, Dr Rowan ‘Dumbledore’ Williams, has stopped taking his medication was confirmed today when he told told BBC Radio 4’s World at One the introduction of sharia law for British Muslims was “unavoidable”.
Williams told programme that Muslims should be able to choose whether to have matters such as marital [...]
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THE Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has again stirred up controversy — this time over a biographical entry on the prophet Mohammed.
According to World Wide Religious News, almost 100,000 Muslims worldwide have signed a web-based petition demanding that Wikipedia removes all depictions of the Prophet from its English-language entry.
The creator of the petition asks:
I request all brothers [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
