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‘Get off the bus, I have to pray’ says Muslim driver

Monday, March 31, 2008

THE lunacy that is Islam has now insinuated itself into Britains public transport system.
On March 29, The Sun reported that stunned passengers were told to get off a No 81 bus in Langley, near Heathrow, so that the driver, a convert to Islam, could pray.
OK, we know that The Suns reporting is often to be [...]

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Nut case finds God, ditches Doctor Who

Monday, March 31, 2008

A 47-year-old Trowbridge man who became hooked on Doctor Who now has a new obsession: God.
Simon White, who amassed a huge collection of Doctor Who merchandise and memorabilia including a full-sized Tardis in his garden and a working Dalek model in his house decided to kick the Doctor to the kerb after becoming [...]

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Holy cow! Hindus accuse animal charity of “unlawful killing”

Sunday, March 30, 2008

THE RSPCA unlawfully trespassed on temple property and unlawfully trespassed on the life of a cow.
So declared Gauri Das, president at Bhaktivedanta Manor, Europe’s biggest Hindu temple in Hertfordshire, north of London, when Hindu monks clad in saffron robes this week served legal papers on Britain’s leading animal welfare charity in protest at the slaughter [...]

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Geert Wilders’ controversial film, Fitna, posted on LiveLeak

Friday, March 28, 2008

DUTCH politician Geert Wilders’ short film, Fitna, universally condemned throughout the Muslim world even BEFORE it was made, has been posted in Dutch and English on LiveLeak.
The film warns of the threat Islam poses to the Netherlands, and to Europe as a whole, and urges Europeans to see off Islam just as it did Nazism [...]

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At last, the Congo will outlaw child exorcisms

Thursday, March 27, 2008

THE best pictures, they say, are on radio - but the picture painted in a BBC Radio 4 report this evening of a young boy having hot wax poured on his stomach, and being hit in the abdomen before having “holy water” poured on him, is one I wish I could get out of [...]

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Oh, no! - Not more crap from Planet Islam

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

TWO Muslim clerics have hit the headlines this week with daft, hate-laden pronouncements.
Omar Bakri Mohammad - who left the UK to live in self-imposed exile in Lebanon - hit out at British featherweight champion boxer Amir Khan for wearing flag-embellished shorts and draping himself in the Union Flag; and Indonesian cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, called [...]

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