(Image: Televangelist Mücahid Cihad Han) If myths about walking on water, God-sent locust plagues and alien “thetans” weren't enough to convince you that organized religion is bonkers, one Turkish man has taken religious idiocy to a whole new level. Welcome to the entirely new ...read more

Imagine that you have been asked to join an organization founded by a man who claimed he was visited by angels sent by god and ascended into heaven on a winged horse before he married a six-year old girl. Not only would you not join this organization, you would be outraged at ...read more

The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which controls the area in and around Mosul in northern Iraq, is denying it ordered that all females between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, contrary to earlier reports. Although FGM predates Islam, Muhammad ...read more

Meriam Ibrahim is 27 years old, eight months pregnant, and is to die by hanging for leaving the Islamic religion. This week a judge in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum told her, "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be ...read more

Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has angrily denounced President Obama's apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The former speaker took to his Twitter feed to condemn Obama's letter to Karzai, saying: "It is an ...read more