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Uh-oh! US military has to apologise again to Iraqi Muslims

Friday, May 30, 2008

FIRST it was the Koran shoot-up. Now, just over a week later, the US military in Iraq are writhing with embarrassment over the idiotic behaviour of a proselytising Christian marine who handed out novelty coins quoting the Gospel in Arabic to Sunni Muslims.
The incident has enraged Iraqis who view it as the latest example of [...]

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Yield to our demands or face dire consequences, warns Australian Muslim leader

Friday, May 30, 2008

A MEMBER of Australia’s Muslim community has warned that hostility towards Islamic schools could force religious education underground, where children are more likely to be targeted by extremists.
Ikebal Patel, the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, said blocking Islamic schools could lead to:
Muslim children being given their religious education in backyards and garages [...]

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‘Asshole’ angers atheists

Thursday, May 29, 2008

IT may have happened in Nowhereville – aka Mojave, California – but the fall-out from a Ford dealership radio ad in this über-Christian enclave is fast becoming a growing embarrassment for the Ford Motor Company around the world.
Here’s the sorry tale, gleaned from The Underground Unbeliever:
A while back the Kieffe & Sons Ford dealership decided [...]

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It’s OK to use the C-word to describe Scientology in Edinburgh, but not Glasgow

Thursday, May 29, 2008

HATS off to Edinburgh City Council bosses who said this week that they had “no objection” to the use of the word “cult” to describe the cult of Scientology.
Their decision follows the barmy police action taken at the beginning of May against a young anti-Scientology protestor in London, who was served with a summons for [...]

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Amsterdam police to get subsidised Korans

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

IF you thought that political correctness is a peculiarly British affliction, think again.
We have just learned that the Amsterdam Police Authority want their officers to read the Koran in order to engage better with members of the surly Muslim community, who find Dutch liberalism – particularly in regard to the acceptance of homosexuality – intolerable.
Not [...]

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Holy crap! Atheists and gays are the Devil’s agents – and so are those who do yoga, says barmy Catholic exorcist

Monday, May 26, 2008

THE Freethinker’s Booby of the Week prize goes to Father Jeremy Davis, 73, exorcist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, who warned that atheism was becoming a key cause of demonic influence in the world.
Spirits inspiring atheism are those that hate God.
The Luton-based Catholic priest – a former medical doctor who was ordained in 1974 and [...]

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If British Muslims are ‘outraged’ by terror attacks, why don’t they show it?

Sunday, May 25, 2008

NOTICE the huge demonstrations mounted in the UK this weekend by law-abiding Muslims outraged over the fact that jihadis had recruited a mentally ill man to carry out the bungled terrorist attack in Exeter?
Nope? Well we didn’t either. Maybe that’s because no provocative cartoons were published in retaliation.
Yet according to Britain’s most prominent Muslim politician, [...]

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Silly cult summons makes asses of the police

Friday, May 23, 2008

CITY of London Police have been made to look exceedingly foolish following their issuing of a court summons to a teenager for displaying a sign that branded Scientology a “dangerous cult”.
Which, of course, is precisely what it is.
And today the boy’s protest was vindicated when the Crown Prosecution Service ruled the words were neither “abusive [...]

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The ‘Religion of Peace’ strikes again

Friday, May 23, 2008

A YOUNG man who police say had been “radicalised” by Islam is in custody following an explosion in Exeter yesterday.
Nicky Reilly, 22, from Plymouth, suffered serious facial injuries when a device detonated at the Princesshay shopping centre in the city, according to the BBC.
Reilly was arrested after the explosion in the Giraffe restaurant in the [...]

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Ignorant Muslim bigot threatens legal action against an all-female driving school

Thursday, May 22, 2008

A MUSLIM husband threatened to sue an all-female driving school after discovering that his wife’s driving instructor was once a man.
According to ReligionNewsBlog, Joanne Dixon, owner of the Laugh ‘n’ Pass driving school which operates throughout Yorkshire, was called by the ignorant bigot who complained after his wife’s first lesson with 42-year-old Emma Sherdley – [...]

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