Category: Censorship
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US book-banning hate group, Moms for Liberty, appears to befalling apart
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. CO-FOUNDED by Bridget Ziegler, above, Moms for Liberty was branded a hate group for promoting a white Christian nationalist agenda by disrupting school board meetings and demanding that books, particularly those with a LGBT+ themes, be removed from school libraries.…
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America’s answer to UK ‘snowflake’ Mary Whitehouse dies aged 85.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. LIKE his counterpart in the UK, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, above—founder of designated hate group, the American Family Association (AFA)—gained nationwide notoriety by declaring war on “filth” in the media. Initially founded in 1977, as the National Federation for Decency, the…
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Newly-appointed principal of a Catholic school sacked for removing ‘spiritually dangerous books’
WITHIN weeks of being appointed head of a “lovely little Catholic school” in Tennessee, father of 15 Doug Darnowski, pictured above with his wife Adele, incurred the wrath of parents by removing “pornographic” and “spiritually dangerous” books from the library. These included Harry Potter and 1001 Arabian Nights. Such was the anger over his arbitary…
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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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Illustrated Anne Frank’s Diary branded as ‘porn’ by ‘book police’ in Florida and Texas
IN her famous diary, Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, who perished aged 16 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February, 1945, discussed sexual matters and described clinical details of her own vagina. The passages she wrote are included in Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman and artist David Polonsky, published in 2018.…
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Demand is made to ban the Book of Mormon after Bibles were removed from some schools in Utah
IN MAY, 2022, Utah wrote into law House Bill 374, which sought to remove “sensitive materials” from from schools and school libraries, Soon after, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) reported that Utah had been “hit hard” with a flurry of book challenges. It is no surprise that graphic novels like Fun Home, Flamer, and Gender Queer are among…
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Christian teacher, sacked over her objection to an utterly inoffensive kid’s book, is awarded $181,000
ALL Are Welcome is an innocuous New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. But diversity and inclusion are alien concepts to Lindsey Barr, above. In her hateful world all are assuredly unwelcome! After expressing concern over some the images in the book, claiming they depicted same-sex couples,…
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School, ridiculed over Michelango’s David, has a strong Christian ethos
“OH my giddy aunt!” I exclaimed after I read reports that Hope Carrasquilla, inset, had recently been forced to resign from her position of principal at Tallahassee Classical School for featuring an image of Michelangelo’s “pornographic” sculpture of David during a lesson. Media across the globe seized on the story, and made the public school…
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Utah lawmaker sponsored a bill to keep ‘porn’ out of classrooms. He reacts with anger over Bible ban request.
UTAH’S law HB0374—sponsored by Republican State Representative Kenneth Robert Ivory, above, and passed last year—prohibits materials that include “pornographic or indecent” content. One parent much to Ivory’s chagrin, seized on the law last December to demand the removal of the Bible from classrooms, saying, “get this PORN out of our schools!” Calling the Bible the…
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‘Tearful’ Minnesota university student explains the ‘pain’ of seeing an image of Mohammed for the first time
Image via YouTube SPEAKING at a press conference, Hamline University senior Aram Wedatalla explained why a 14th-century painting depicting the “prophet” Mohammed had so upset her. I was shocked with a professor who gave me a trigger warning before proceeding to disrespect my religion. The painting that sparked the row. Image courtesy of Edinburgh University…
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