Category: Islam
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UK High Court judge rules that a ‘strictly secular’ London school was justified in maintaining a prayer ban
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. Michaela Community School in Wembly today (Tuesday) won a legal challenge mounted by an “extremely rude and defiant” Muslim pupil who demanded the right to pray, despite the school’s “no prayer” policy. Delivering his ruling Mr Justice Linden said the…
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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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Fear that atheism was robbing her of ‘spiritual solace’, Ayaan Hirsi Ali thinks Christianity will help restore it
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. PROOF that wisdom does not necessarily come with age was provided this week by once fiery atheist Ali, above. In an article that that saddened non-beievers and delighted Christians, she declared that she turned to Christianity because she ultimately “found…
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‘Even Satan wasn’t gay.’ Religious fanatics in Kenya unite to protest the legal registration of an LGBT+ group
FOLLOWING our report that Christians and Muslims recently found common ground in Canada—their hatred of LGBT+ communities—comes news from Kenya that protests have taken place over a Supreme Court decision to allowed the registration of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHR). The Nation reports that religious leaders called for the review of…
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Man who united Christians and Muslims against LGBT+ communities plans to do so again
LAST month devout Muslim Kamel El-Cheikh, inset above, organised a “Million Person March” to protest “the indoctrination” and “compulsion” that he alleged goes on in Canadian schools with regard to sexual orientation and gender. Nowhere near a million ralllied to his cause, but the rabble-rouser did succeed in uniting thousands of Muslim and Christian bigots…
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Kenyan publisher forced to withdraw a school textbook containing an image said to be that of Mohammed
THE Mentor Publishing Co Ltd has admitted to “sacriledge” for including a cartoon which it “mistakenly identified” as Islam’s prophet. According to this Nation report, among enraged Muslim parents was Mrs Amina Mohammed who asked: Who checks the publishers? Do they have proof readers? How could this pass? In the Grade 2 Mentor Encyclopaedia book,…
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A monument to oppression: UK town to erect a £25,000 statute to celebrate Islamic modesty laws
THE creator of Smethwick’s “The Strength of the Hijab”, renowned artist Luke Perry, claims in a BBC report claims that reaction to his monstrosity has been “really, really positive”, but beneath an Independent video people around 80 people have expressed horror. One commenter said: Next statue in UK to be ‘the beauty of stone pelting,…
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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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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.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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