Category: blasphemy
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UK’s Crown Prosecution Service accused of attempting to introduce ‘back-door blasphemy’ in Quran-burning case
THE National Secular Society (NSS) has reacted angrily to news the the CPS is to appeal a Crown Court decision to overturn the conviction of a Hamit Coskun, above, who burned a Quran during a protest against radical Islam. In February Coskun, a Turkish national of Armenian and Kurdish heritage, burned a Quran outside the…
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London man who burned a Koran to warn of ‘radical Islam’ wins appeal against his conviction
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. HAMIT Coskun, inset, who set fire to a Koran outside the the Turkish consulate in London has won an appeal against his conviction after a judge backed his “right…
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Turkish magazine editor and others face charges over ‘hateful’ Mo cartoon
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. DIRECTOR of the satirical magazine, LeMan — Zafer Aknar, above — and five colleagues have all had arrest warrants served on them for “inciting the public to hatred, hostility or humiliating” following the publication of a cartoon that showed “prophets”…
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Iraqi who burned a Koran shot dead in Sweden
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. SALWAN Momika, who sparked protests throughout the a the Mohammedan world in 2023 after a burned a Koran outside Stockholm Central Mosque, died of gunshot wounds yesterday (Thursday). He was shot in an apartment in Stockholm. Local police said in…
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Parodies of da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ have ouraged many over the years. The latest row erupted at the Olympics in France.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the opening of Olympic Games last Friday organisers reportedly said they are “sorry” that scenes at the ceremony had caused offence. The BBC revealed that a banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from Christian…
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Woman wearing a ‘blasphemous’ dress in Pakistan rescued by a brave female police officer
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AN unnamed woman in Lahore, Pakistan, had to be rescued from a vicious, ignorant mob who wrongly claimed that that a dress she was wearing bore words from the Koran and was therefore “blasphemous.“ The terrified woman might well have…
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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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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 