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Censorship net closes in

Thursday, August 7, 2008

WHAT a dismal month it’s been for freedom of expression … and we’re only seven days into August.
First, we had that exceedingly foolish apology from the South Wales Echo to the Clown Prince of British evangelism, the maggot bigot Stephen “Birdshit” Green. (You can sign our petition against the apology here.)
Then comes the news that [...]

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‘Kermit’ croaks on a cross – and Catholics are hopping mad

Sunday, August 3, 2008

THERE was outrage back in May when the Bolzano museum of modern art in Italy acquired a sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicting a frog on a cross.

Local bishop Wilhelm Egger moaned:
The crucified frog has shocked many visitors and has hurt their religious feelings. Even if this was not the intention of [...]

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Playboy, FHM are ‘pastorised’ in the Philippines

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

THE Philippines has its very own Mary Whitehouse figure – Bienvenido Abante, a politician and pastor of the Metropolitan Bible Baptist Church.
The rabid anti-smut campaigner first came to our attention back in 2006 when, as Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights – yeah, you read that right – blew his top over proposed gay [...]

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‘Muslims breed like mosquitos’ is not hate speech

Monday, June 30, 2008

THE Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a Muslim group’s complaint against Maclean’s magazine.
The long-running case came before the Commission after the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) complained that the highly-regarded magazine published an article in October 2006 likely to expose Muslims to hatred and contempt.
The article, entitled “The Future Belongs to Islam,” by Canadian writer [...]

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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 [...]

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‘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 [...]

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Now Muslims kick off over Wikipedia’s Mohammed images

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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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Christians sabotage MySpace atheist website

Friday, February 1, 2008

MYSPACE’S 35,000-member-strong Atheist and Agnostic Group was removed last month after hackers earlier broke in and renamed the group’s site “Jesus Is Love”.
After it was sabotaged, according to The Plain Dealer, MySpace took the site down, and despite repeated requests, it has steadfastly refused to restore it.
The group’s founder and moderator, Bryan Pesta, a [...]

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Religion is &$$&#! and Jesus and Mo are *$£#%%s!!, so there!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Religion stinks! There! Said it! Tee-hee! Glad we’ve got that out of the way before we can’t say it any more. Well, that may be very far off – or maybe not. It depends on how big an ear the United Nations gives to Kuwait’s call for all criticism of religion to be banned – internationally.
“Kuwait’s National [...]

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Nasreen forced to censor herself

Sunday, December 2, 2007

FURTHER evidence – not that it’s needed these days – that Muslims are now controlling what we can read, watch and hear comes in a story in, inter alia, The Times.
Taslima Nasreen, the 45-year-old feminist author, National Secular Society hon. veep and former doctor, has been forced to self-censor.
The Times story says she is to “rewrite her autobiography” (an [...]

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