Author: Barry Duke
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Christians warned against seeing Barbie: ‘It’s hardcore propaganda’
WHEN a friend jokingly asked me at the weekend whether I intended seeing Mattel and Warner Bros’ Barbie my reply was “I’d sooner rub acid in my eyes!” But now, having read an attack on the film by Christian reviewer Dr Ted Baehr, inset above, I’m having second throughts. Baehr, who runs faith-based Movieguide, told…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish media continues erasing images of women, but this feminist is fighting back
FOR more than a decade, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, above, an Orthodox Jewish feminist, has been chronicling the gradual disappearance of women from magazines, advertisements and other media in Israel. In reporting on her activities, Religion News Service provided a recent example: The front page of ultra-Orthodox Shacharit newspaper, inset above. When it covered Israeli President…
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Rabbi arrested and sentenced for stealing a Palestinian rights banner from Cleveland State University
BACK in February, a banner belonging to a campus Palestinian rights group was stolen, leaving students and police puzzled as who would do such a thing. Days later the anwer was provided by the culprit himself: Orthodox rabbi Alexander Popivker, above, who used Instagram to confess. He wrote: As an act of civil disobedience I…
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Exposed: The Christian Nationalist challenging books in S. Carolina. A Holocaust novel is on her hit list.
ELIZABETH Ivie Szalai—affiliated with designated White Christian Nationalist hate group Moms for Liberty—appears to be avoiding questions from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after it revealed this week that the 1966 novel The Fixer is on a list of around 100 books she wants removed from school libraries in Beaufort County, South Carolina. JTA reported that…
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Fort Worth sued for denying an atheist group permission to display anti-Christian nationalism banners
ANNOUNCING this week that Metroplex Atheists have launched a lawsuit against the Texas city, Geoffrey Blackwell, above—litigation counsel for American Atheists—declared that “free speech is free speech, whether or not the government likes that speech or certain members of the community object to it.” According to American Atheists, the lawsuit comes on the heels of…
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‘Bible-believing’ councillor ‘cancelled’ by UK’s Conservative Party & others for labeling Pride event ‘sinful’
AFTER learning via social media that nudity had been observed during a Pride event, King Lawal, above, tweeted his displeasure over “sinful” and “illegal” activity. As a consequence the 31-year-old got himself suspended earlier this month from his role of Conservative party councillor in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and is now making suing noises, claiming his “life…
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Finland’s ‘Bible trial’ enters a new phase as prosecutors appeal the acquittal of a Lutheran homophobe
FINNISH authorities stand accused of waging war on Christianity by Christian lawmaker Dr. Päivi Räsänen, above, who has been ordered to attend an appeal court hearing later this year. Premier Christian News reported that Räsänen’s run-in with Finnish anti-hate speech laws began in 2019 when she took to Twitter to express concern that her church…
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Court sides with a Catholic school that ordered a guidance instructor to dissolve her marriage or resign
FIVE years ago Shelly Fitzgerald, co-director of guidance at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, was stunned when the President of the school confronted her with a copy of her marriage certificate and demanded to know why it bore the names of two women. When Fitzgerald explained that she had married her long-term partner Victoria—the couple…
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Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew, ‘but not a good one’, opines Roseanne Barr
A FEW months back Barr, above, promised later-to-be sacked Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson that, in the midst of “cancel culture”, she, and other comedians would be “more offensive that they have ever been before.” The famous and very wealthy comedian made true on that promise in June with a “sarcastic” remark about the Holocaust.…
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U.N. votes to criminalise the desecration ‘holy books’ in a move slammed as imposing ‘blasphemy laws by stealth’
MEMBERS of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) this week voted in favour of a resolution for the “deliberately and publicly” burning of the Quran or “any other holy book” to be prohibited by law. The UK-based National Secular Society (NSS)—which, along with Humanists UK, played a key role in the abolition of blasphemy laws…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 