In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremists

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Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said today.

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ABUSIVE emails written by the son of the campaign manager of the Christian Democratic Party containing anti-Muslim and homophobic comments have embarrassed the party's president, the Reverend Fred Nile, only two weeks before the December 5 Bradfield byelection, in which the party …

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A bill that would have seen the government putting pressure on Uganda to withdraw its recently-tabled Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been rejected by the Senate.

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Switzerland's biggest Jewish groups have described a far-right push to ban the construction of minarets as a ''threat'' to religious harmony and the integration of Muslims.

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Rush Limbaugh is the Socrates of hate. Scholars of the future will look at him not as a political phenomenon, but as a master of rhetoric who can instantly turn a reasonable critique of HN1N1 hysteria into a horrible thing. Here is how he did it:

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Nick Griffin of the BNP used the terms "Christian" and "Britain" three times in his recent appearance on Question Time. In none of those references did he give "Christian" or "Christianity" any content whatsoever.

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Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning writer-director whose credits include "Crash," "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," has left the Church of Scientology.

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"If you all attack on different fronts we'll never get anywhere," said David Dimbleby towards the end of the most-watched edition of Question Time for many years. He's said that sort of thing many times, of course, but it's never before had the flavour of a tactical suggestion.

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NOTORIOUS evangelical nutjob, Danny Nalliah, has been mouthing off once again, claiming this week that "dark forces" were at work in Australia's Federal Parliament.

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A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs.

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Telling her mother that she wanted to come to the aid of a library under attack, 11-year-old Sydney Sabbagha stood at the podium before the Oak Brook village board.

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A Polish court has awarded $11,000 (7,400 euros) in damages to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine for wanting an abortion.

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A man was jailed for life today for the murder and gang rape of a lesbian South African international footballer.

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Intolerance is a bitter beast. There are many groups in America that are subject to discrimination and prejudice, but none are more hated than atheists.

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A British honorary consul in Jamaica who was strangled inside his home in a possible homophobic attack was likely to have known his killer, police on the Caribbean island said yesterday.

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British National party councillors could be barred from serving as school governors if a landmark case planned by a teaching union goes ahead.

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Ten Maryland nuns — almost an entire religious community — converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism on Thursday, saying their former denomination had become too liberal in its acceptance of homosexuality.

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Shock jock Kyle Sandilands has been suspended from radio following comments he made about comedian Magda Szubanski.

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Shock jock Kyle Sandilands is again courting controversy, this time saying actress Magda Szubanski could become skinny if she was in a concentration camp.

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Racist attackers abducted a Muslim community leader at knifepoint, bundled him into a car and threatened his life unless he stopped running prayer sessions in a community hall that has been the target of a British National party campaign.

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Police responded Sunday to a 911 hang-up call at the church of a mayoral candidate where two women said they were assaulted because of their sexual orientation.

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When classes opened across Vietnam on August 17, few students were as excited — or as nervous — as a group of 15 HIV-positive children who had finally been given permission to attend school.

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Rightwing groups have been banned from holding marches in Luton for three months in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the violence that has marred similar demonstrations across the country.

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A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI "agent provocateur" paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.

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