Tag: National Secular Society
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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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Mired in medievalism: C of E still performs exorcisms but does not know how many have been subjected to them under its auspices
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. WHILE many think of exorcisms as relics of the Dark Ages, they continue to be performed by religious organisations of all stripes on people who are emotionally and mentally…
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury wants an end to ‘childish’ hymns; says ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ is ‘very bland’
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE Monty Python team seized the opportunity in 1980 to parody All Things … by giving the world the very scathing All Things Dull and Ugly. But almost 50 years on, the original hymn, written for children in 1848, remains,…
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National Secular Society challenges Scotland’s religious representation education law of 1973
AN foolish and undemocratic law in Scotland requires councils to appoint unelected religious representatives to their education committees. Appointees are usually the only unelected members who receive voting privileges, and the NSS is currently running a campaign to remove automatic places on education committees for religious representatives. The Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 requires…
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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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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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