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  • Dawkins is right to moderate louts

    Created: Friday, 26 February 2010 15:00 Author: John Draper
    The newspapers in England are having a wonderful time reporting that the Atheists at richarddawkins.net are unhappy.   Surprise, not everyone agrees!  And to quote the UK Guardian:      "Christian groups have seized on the row as evidence that the...

  • Clinton speaks against UN resolution on religious defamation

    Created: Friday, 30 October 2009 01:39 Author: John Draper
    The Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group of 56 Islamic nations, has been pushing hard for the U.N. Human Rights Council to adopt resolutions that bar the defamation of religion. But the resolution is aimed at preventing criticism of Islam and i...

  • Free speech supported by Vancouver Unitarian Church

    Created: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 01:29 Author: John Draper
    Dr. Philip Nitschke is a right-to-die advocate and director and founder of the Australia based pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He had been scheduled to speak at an event set for Sept. 10 at the main downtown library in Vancouver, but it was cance...

  • One Third of New Jersey Conservatives are insane

    Created: Sunday, 20 September 2009 01:37 Author: John Draper
    The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC reports that a poll found that 18% of conservatives in New Jersey said that Obama is the anti-Christ and 17% were not sure.  That's a total of 35% who are insane - they distrust facts and don't listen to them! They are the...

  • Atheists get more dates at OKCupid.

    Created: Thursday, 17 September 2009 01:18 Author: John Draper
    The leading dating site in the U.S. did a survey to find out what would be more likely to get a response on a first contact.  The obvious things came up like be literate and don't use bad spelling, bad grammar etc.; don't use physical compliments;  do t...

  • Claim by Richard Dawkins disputed by scientists

    Created: Saturday, 12 September 2009 01:30 Author: John Draper
    The Christian press (The Christian Institute) is touting a finding by scientists as a counter to Richard Dawkins.  It shows you how desperate the Christian press in England is to find something that seems to prove Richard Dawkins wrong.  Dawkins is quot...

  • Muslims in Calgary dispute M.P.'s criticism

    Created: Thursday, 10 September 2009 01:49 Author: John Draper
    Calgary is the home to Ezra Levant who has been harassed by Muslims to stop his critiques of their behaviour (more here) and now a Calgary M.P. has spread the word on this to his constituents.  Rob Anders, M.P. for  Calgary West, wants to abolish the Ca...

  • World Council of Churches elects Norwegian Liberal

    Created: Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:04 Author: John Draper
    On August 27 the World Council of Churches (WCC) elected as its new head Olav Fykse Tveit,  a Norwegian Lutheran, who wants it to do more to support Christians in Muslim countries.His predecessor did not make it easy since he denounced Israel's occupatio...

  • Muslims in Mali don't want women's rights

    Created: Saturday, 29 August 2009 01:05 Author: John Draper
    Mali is a Muslim country in West Africa, south of Algeria with much of it in the Sahara desert.  More than 90% of Mali's population is Muslim. It has a Parliament with a President and is one of the few real democracies in the Muslim world.  (e.g. Iran i...

  • Iranian Guards rape 15 year old boy in prison.

    Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 01:09 Author: John Draper
    The Times Newspaper reported August 22 that because a 15 year old boy wore the green wristband of Iran's opposition (photo below) he was locked up for 20 days, beaten, raped repeatedly and subjected to sexual humiliations and abuse - all in the name of Go...

  • The United Church of Canada is blind to true suffering

    Created: Thursday, 20 August 2009 16:29 Author: John Draper
    Recently, the United Church of Canada held a convention where delegations submitted resolutions for discussion. One resolution was that the Church sanction Israel for its enduring conflict with Palestinians. Specifically, the measure suggested at the Gen...

  • Britain uses comedy to reach potential terrorists

    Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 01:24 Author: John Draper
    A comedy called Living with Infidels will start airing on the Internet on August 20. It depicts a group of suicide bombers living in Bradford and producers of the series, which is made in London, say they have the backing of the Muslim Council of Britain....

  • The U.S. is becoming a Religious State

    Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 01:00 Author: John Draper
    In 2004, Police in Euless, a suburb of Fort Worth Texas, charged Jose Merced with illegally slaughtering animals (goats) within city limits.  Merced belongs to an obscure religion called Santeria that believes in doing this - they build shrines to house ...

  • Canadian Reporter Maziar Bahari on trial in Iran

    Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 01:05 Author: John Draper
    Canadian Newspapers reported on July 9 that Iran's envoy to Canada had been called on the carpet yet again, this time for the continued detention of a Canadian-Iranian journalist detained in Tehran for the past two weeks. At the time Canadian diplomats h...

  • Muslim couple abuse BC hospitality

    Created: Saturday, 08 August 2009 01:30 Author: John Draper
    It seems that at least one Muslim couple have a persecution complex, or perhaps they think that the rules of life, commerce and hospitality in Canada are here to be abused and taken advantage of.  If I went to Pakistan or any number of Muslim countries a...

  • Is John Travolta abandoning Scientology?

    Created: Monday, 27 July 2009 01:51 Author: John Draper
    A recent report from the UK Daily Mail suggests that 55-year-old John Travolta is about to leave Scientology.  Travolta is apparently unhappy that Scientology failed to help his son Jett who was reportedly suffering from autism and had seizures but died ...

  • Obama – black first, President second

    Created: Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:39 Author: John Draper
    White, caucasian people are always presumed to be at fault when it comes to a dispute.  President Obama is the latest to prove that point.  When he heard the story of the arrest of the black professor, he immediately assumed the police to be at fault. ...

  • Princess facing Saudi injustice given secret refuge in England

    Created: Tuesday, 21 July 2009 01:17 Author: John Draper
    Woman feared she would be stoned after giving birth to an illegitimate child in Britain The Independent Newspaper (U.K.) reports that a Saudi Arabian princess has secretly been granted refugee status so she can stay in England.  She  comes from a very ...

  • 2009 Toronto Film Festival to feature Film on Darwin

    Created: Sunday, 19 July 2009 01:00 Author: John Draper
    Toronto - The 34th Toronto International Film Festival® opens September 10 with the world premiere Gala Presentation of Creation, directed by Jon Amiel. The film tells the life story of Charles Darwin starring Paul Bettany as Darwin and Jennifer Connelly...

  • Economist reports on Atheism in the U.S.

    Created: Saturday, 18 July 2009 01:18 Author: John Draper
    Columnist and blogger Lexington writes for the prestigious British magazine Economist and he recently wrote an article about an atheist summer camp in Ohio.  He was probably prompted to report on it by the recent news about similar camps being sponsored ...
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