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Savagery flourishes where Islam rules

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

WE’VE said it in the past, and we’ll say it again: Islam is rotten to its very core. It is a despicable, barbaric religion that revels in cruelty and degradation, and the world would be a far, far better place without it.
Yes, we are angry. VERY, very angry! So angry, in fact, that when the [...]

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Muslim chef cooks up a ‘religious discrimination’ case against the Metropolitan Police

Monday, November 3, 2008

OH come on! This is getting completely out of hand!
After we reported yesterday on the failed case of Muslim forklift operator Mohammed Ahmed, who alleged religious discrimination against Tesco over alcohol, we learn today that a Metropolitan police chef is taking his employers to an industrial tribunal because he was required to cook traditional British [...]

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Another religious zealot proves unfit for purpose

Monday, November 3, 2008

THIS is the sorry tale of Mohammed Ahmed, 32, a Saudi Arabian national living in Derby. Ahmed took a job as a forklift truck driver at Tesco’s giant Litchfield depot, then made a horrifying discovery:
Tesco sells stuff that can get you tipsy!
It also stocks bacon and pork scratchings and lots of other stuff all good [...]

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Muslim doctor accused of homophobia walks out of a disciplinary hearing

Friday, October 31, 2008

That bastion of progressive thinking – the Islamic Medical Association – has attracted yet more unwelcome attention, this time as a result of its President, Dr Muhammad Siddiq, storming out of a medical disciplinary hearing.
The GP found himself before a General Medical Council fitness to practise hearing in Manchester this week as a result of [...]

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Mad Malaysian muftis condemn yoga and tomboys as ‘un-Islamic’

Thursday, October 30, 2008

EVERY so often some cracked clerics worm their way into the headlines with idiotic condemnations of the ancient art of yoga. It’s “un-Christian” they grizzle – and deny yoga groups access to church halls (see Freethinker reports here and here).
But now we learn that yoga has been condemned as un-Islamic in a country where thousands [...]

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Jesus is The Way, the Truth … and the Strife

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

LATEST lunacy from the world of broadcasting comes from Glasgow, where a CHRISTIAN on a CHRISTIAN radio show has been sacked because he said things that were … well … too damned CHRISTIAN!
In presenting a weekly Christian radio show on the Glasgow-based Asian radio station AWAZ FM, the Rev Mahboob Masih enraged some Muslim listeners [...]

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