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‘Blasphemous’ Darwin: Bangladesh joins other Islamic countries in a war against evolutionary teaching

Religious institutions in Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Turkey have issued fatwas against the theory of evolution. Now we learn that in Bangladesh has bowed to Islamist pressure and has excluded Darwin from classrooms. REPORTING on the row for Eurasia Review, P. K. Balachandran, wrote that the two parties had described the Darwinian…
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Earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey was God’s way of punishing Israel’s enemies, says rabbi

On Friday, when the death toll in the two countries was about to surpass 28,000, Shmuel Eliyahu, above, the far-right Chief Rabbi of Safed in Israel, horrified a number Jewish leaders by claiming the disaster was “divine retribution.“ BARRED from entering the US last year for his racism, Eliyahu is notorious for hate speech directed…
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Row erupts over a pig’s ‘penis’ at a Michigan school

Back in 2010 all hell broke loose at an Oklahoma Catholic Church—St. Charles Borromeo—over a crucifix that many claimed was obscene. Now something similar has occurred in Michigan where a schoolgirl, aged 11, was traumatised after being accused by an art teacher of drawing a pig with ‘boy parts’. JUST when I a thought I’d…
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Jesus ads at the Super Bowl will target millions who are are ‘spiritually open, but skeptical.’

A staggering sum of $20-million will spent to market Jesus worldwide at the event on February 12. How will non-religious football fans react to the ‘He Gets Us‘ campaign? MY guess is that they will yawn, dismiss it as a monumental waste of money and simply get on with their lives. One thing is certain:…
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Probe into child sexual abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses leads to indictments against five

The suspects ‘used their faith communities or their own families to gain access to victims,’ Pennsylvania’s acting Attorney General, Michelle Henry, above, announced. FOR several years the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has been investigating whether the Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly failed to report child sexual abuse allegations to authorities. On Monday Henry announced at a press…
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Florida’s crackpot Christian Governor targets venue that staged a Xmas drag show

Ron DeSantis, inset above, is accused of furthering his ‘cultural war agenda’ by threatening to revoke the liquor licence of The Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation which staged ‘A Drag Queen Christmas‘ last year. DESANTIS, whose far-right Christian agenda began in earnest with his “Don’t Say Gay” bill in 2022, has used his office to target…
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Amid Jewish protests over Israel’s far-right government, a US rabbi uses ‘F’ word to describe the coalition

Last week Labour MP Kim Johnson offered an apology for calling the new coalition, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, above, ‘fascist’. It’s now reported that a New York rabbi used the same word in reference to a cabinet that he claimed was made up of ‘Jewish supremacists, fascists and racists’. RABBI Jeremy Kalmanofsky, of New York’s…
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Petition to remove bishops from the House of Lords launched by UK writer, comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig

The move comes as MPs consider bringing the Church of England into line with the law of the land with regard to same-sex marriage. IN her petition the popular British-Danish personality insists that “whatever goes on inside religious organisations, the Church should not be allowed to hold sway in the Houses of Parliament. “ It…
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Boy, 11, shared a bed with a convicted child molester at a creationist theme park

A VISITOR to evangelist Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land (DAL) in Alabama brought a young Black kid to the tacky attraction and ended up sleeping with the boy in a bed provided by the man known as “Dr Dino.“ In a lengthy report about criminal activities and other dodgy goings-on at the “Darwin-free” DAL, Kelly…



“The curriculum had already drawn tensions among the county’s religious parents, with some worrying about appropriateness and arguing the material…