http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk Watching. Pointing. Laughing. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:53:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hot on the heels of yesterday's successful Atheist Bus Campaign launch comes news that the Spanish equivalent, Bus Ateo, has been ruffling religious feathers in Barcelona. [caption id="attachment_1626" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="Probablemente Dios no existe. Deja de preocuparte y disfruta la vida"][/caption] Next week Barcelona will be the first city to follow in ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2009/01/08/spanish-atheist-bus-riles-catholics/ Rangers fans are being threatened with arrest under religious hate laws for singing the Hokey Cokey song at Rangers v Celtic matches. Peter Kearney, a spokesman for the Catholic Church, is under the impression that the song has sinister origins: This song does have quite disturbing origins. Although apparently innocuous, it was ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/23/scottish-catholics-angered-by-etymological-myth/ Chief rabble-rouser of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has called for an end to attempts to equate Islam with terrorist violence. Unfortunately, his pleas were addressed to the United Nations in Geneva and not to violent Islamic terrorists, so they are unlikely to have much effect. Ihsanoglu's speech ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/21/linking-islam-with-terrorism/ A press conference showing of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam/anti-immigration film Fitna has been cancelled by order of European party leaders. UKIP MEP Gerard Batten had invited Wilders to the parliament to show the film and give a talk. Now he will just give a talk. UPDATE: (19 Dec) According to a Dutch ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/17/fitna-banned-at-euro-parliament/ [caption id="attachment_1602" align="aligncenter" width="399" caption="Looks like a right tit: The latest piece of burk-art to outrage Muslim groups"][/caption] The London Paper reports that the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland (UMO) has overreacted to another art exhibition. In what is fast becoming a genre in itself (see the ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/12/boob-in-a-burkha-branded-blasphemous/ The BBC reports that around 250 "Christian activists" turned up to protest at the Welsh assembly today, where Patrick Jones was giving a reading of his "blasphemous" poems. Stephen Green, whose initial protests against a reading at Waterstones prompted the Senedd invitation, believed that "the turnout shows the strength of feeling ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/11/250-protest-at-senedd-poetry-reading/ The zombie-worshipping pettifoggers at the Christian Legal Centre just can't seem to get their day in court. Fresh from the humiliation of having their "Jesus' Penis" case stopped by the CPS, they have just been informed by the High Court that their test case against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/09/totally-without-merit-christian-lawyers-fail-again/ The readings are invitation-only, but Stephen Green (the national director of failed fundamentalist lobby group Stephen Green's Voice, aka Christian Voice) is encouraging supporters to get themselves invited - so that they can show how offended they are. Thanks to Green's successfully intimidating Waterstones into cancelling a reading in its Cardiff ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/08/christian-voice-to-infiltrate-blasphemous-poetry-events/ An update on this story. The hundreds of complaints received - including one from government of the Philippines - about the Harry and Paul sketch which featured an upper-class toff trying to get his pet Northerner to mate with his neighbour's Filippino maid fell on deaf ears at Ofcom, according ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/08/ofcom-gets-enfields-joke/ The following is not a parody, so you must not laugh. It is quoted in full from the website of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance and compassion Date: 02/12/2008 With the multiplicity of terrorist attacks perpetrated recently by deviant and fanatic individuals, the General Secretariat of ... http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2008/12/04/oic-complains-about-terrorists-media-giving-islam-a-bad-name/