Tag: ATHEISM

The Palestinian Authority has arrested a 26-year-old West Bank blogger for calling himself "God" on Facebook. The suspect, Walid Husayin, works as a barber in the conservative town of Qalqilya, where the locals describe him as a devout family man. When he surfs the Web, though, Husayin apparently takes on an entirely different persona. As the AP reports, Husayin is now facing a sentence of ...

Months before the Global Atheists Convention is held in Melbourne this March, a couple of major atheist Web sites have been forced to shut down due to coordinated, denial-of-service attacks. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) and the Global Atheist Convention both had their sites paralyzed by the attack, which overloaded both sites with traffic. At ...