Author: Barry Duke
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U.K government pauses £2.2-million grant to a misogynistic, antisemitic and homophobic London mosque
THE grant awarded to Green Lane Masjid—which regularly features abhorrent sermons by Shaykh Abu Usamah At-Thahabi, above—has been put on hold following a challenge by the National Secular Society (NSS). The NSS reports that it had written to Lucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport expressing concern over her department’s award. The…
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Hindu nationalist who wants to be America’s next Republican President is out to woo far-right Christians
IN a recent campaign video billionaire enterpreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, above, laments the loss of “faith, patriotism and hard work” in America, asserting that “wokeism, gender ideology and the climate cult” have taken their place. Later, in a presidential primary debate staged this week, the ultra-conservative Ramaswamy, 38, who claims to fully support “Judeo-Christian values,” came…
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Former head of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Australia jailed for 15 years for abusing two female pupils
AFTER Malka Leifer was accused around 16 years ago of sexual abuse, she fled to Israel where she claimed she was too mentally unwell to face trial in Australia. But undercover footage showed that she was living what appeared to be a perfectly normal life in Israel and an Israeli court ordered her extradition to…
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Kenyan shutters church responsible for the death by starvation of 427
GOOD News International Ministries, led by a Kenyan pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, inset above, has been forced to close, along with four other “extremists” churches, including the Helicopter Church of Christ in Nairobi. Religion News Service reports that Kenya’s Registrar of Societies deregisted the death cult, founded in 2003 with an “End Times” message. Earlier…
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Paedophile priest, once supported by the late Cardinal Pell, has another year added to his 39-year sentence
BACK in 2014, it was reported that Australian Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale, inset—originally jailed in 1994 for 18 years after being convicted of 46 charges of abusing 20 boys and one girl between 1961 and 1982—had received support from the late Cardinal Pell, above. In April, 2014, the sentence of Australia’s most notorious paedophile, was…
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‘This is a courthouse, not a church’ warns judge at the trial of anti-abortionists who targeted a clinic
AMONG nine defendents who are currently on trial for blocking access to a Northwest Washington clinic is Lauren Handy, above, Director of Activism and Mutual Aid with an outfit called Progressive Anti-Abortion action. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is overseeing the trial in Washington D.C. was compelled to warn supporters of Handy and her cronies that…
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Pakistan lawmakers vote to impose life imprisoment on those who insult Mohammed’s wives and companions
DESPITE opposition voiced by Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada, above, the Senate this month passed a bill to raise levels of punishment meted out to anyone found guilty of insulting anyone closely connected to the “prophet” Mohammed. As things stand the punishment for those who make “derogatory” remarks about Mo’s family, wives and…
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Halal certification industry turns it attention to … nail polish! Most products are not ‘wudu-friendly’.
ISLAM has more dumb rules than a procupine has fleas, and those charged with the task of deciding what is permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram) within the “religion of peace” are now having get their heads around the “problem” of nail polish. The issue, in a nutshell, is that the overwhelming number of lacquers are…
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‘Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas’ claims former Republican House Speaker
NEWT Gingrich, above, a twice-divorced Republican Roman Catholic and staunch Trump ally, claimed in a tweet last month that “Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas. Have the Democrats literally lost their minds and become the anti-religious party?“ This prompted Newsweek to fact-check his claim. It concluded that Gingrich, “who has a track…
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U.K. hospital chaplain cosied up to an Afghan Taliban extremist. National Secular Society voices its concern.
AFTER photographs emerged of a meeting between Muslim chaplain Suliman Gani, above, and Afghanistan’s Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi, inset above, the NSS raised questions over Gani’s suitability to remain in the employ of the National Health Service. In a letter to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the NSS—Britain’s leading…
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