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Muslim sex abuse victims have a ‘religious obligation’ not to report their abusers

Monday, October 27, 2008

A HARROWING report of sex abuse carried out in the Muslim community in the UK was broadcast tonight by BBC Radio 4, which indicated that a number of imams have been guilty of keeping such abuse a secret from the authorities.
You can hear Rob Broomby’s report here.
The report revealed that a dossier, containing the names [...]

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Stealth Christians infiltrate Lancashire schools

Sunday, September 28, 2008

A letter writer in this week’s NSS Newsline reveals that several schools in her hometown in Lancashire have been allowing evangelical Christians to take over lessons for a week - apparently without the consent or knowledge of the pupils’ parents.
Freethinker subscriber Nicola Holt was first made aware of this clandestine evangelising campaign when her partner’s [...]

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Do they teach honesty at St Monica’s?

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The news that a Catholic high school in Prestwich is refusing to allow its girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer is all over the mainstream media, so it is unlikely to be news to Freethinker readers.
But the extraordinary thing about this case is not the fact that members of the governing board of Saint [...]

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Whoo-hoo! The end is nigh for hotel room Bibles

Thursday, June 5, 2008

AS someone who has frequently complained to hotel managers about Gideons Bibles in the rooms I have occupied – “remove it now, or I will clog up the bog with the thing” usually did the trick – I was delighted to learn today that the American Civil Liberties Union has warned a school district in [...]

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Islam claims yet another innocent victim

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police reported last Friday.
The incident serves to highlight once again the widespread abuse of children in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan and other parts of the world.
The police said that Muhammad Atif [...]

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Theology has no place in science, say Russian scientists

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

TEN members of the Russian Academy of Sciences have written an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V Putin stating their ‘deepening concern over the increasing clericalisation of Russian society’, and the Russian Orthodox Church’s infiltration of all areas of public life.The signatories include two Nobel Prize winners Zhores Alferov [...]

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