Archive for the ‘Religious Censorship’ Category

Salman Rushdie brushes off call for festival ‘blasphemy’ ban by: Amanda Hodge AN Indian Muslim leader has demanded Salman Rushdie be banned from the country’s biggest literary festival, warning that an invitation to the novelist who endured a fatwa will add “salt to injury”. The vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, one of India’s most influential [...]

Tim Minchin’s new Christmas song about Jesus cut from The Jonathan Ross Show By Paul Sims Comedy superstar (and rationalist) Tim Minchin was supposed to be on The Jonathan Ross Show this week. He’d even written a brand new song for it, as he explains on his blog: “Being Christmas, I thought it would be [...]