MORALLY BACKWARD religious loonies have been walloping atheist websites with denial of service attacks.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, savage attacks hit the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) and the Global Atheist Convention and knocked them offline Tuesday.
The attacks seemed to be related to the Global Atheist Convention, which is being held in Melbourne next March. Speakers include prominent evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion.
About 1,000 tickets have been flogged so far through the Global Atheist Convention website, which was set up, and is operated, by the AFA.
The cyber attacks halted ticket sales for the convention, which is expected to be the largest gathering of non-believers ever held down under.
David Nicholls, president of the AFA, was agnostic as to whether the attacks were motivated by religion or were the work of right wing Christian fundamentalists upset that the AFA has been lobbying for a more secular society.
In Australia religious conservatives have a voice in politics that is as loud as their numbers are small. They are just as vocal and clever as that lot that want to send the Aborigines back to wherever they came from.
Nicholls said he believed that since two separate atheism-related websites were hit that suggested the attacks were targeted at atheists.
Whichever bunch of religious nuts carried out the attacks it appears their god was on their side. The company hosting the websites pulled the plugs following the attacks, forcing the atheists to find new servers. µ
