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Mark Knight #racist heraldsun.com.au

HERALD Sun cartoonist Mark Knight says he suspended his Twitter account overnight because of abuse towards his family over his cartoon of Serena Williams’ US Open tantrum.

Knight said he did it to protect his family and friends.

Australia’s finest cartoonist said while positive comments were outweighing negative, he chose to do it to stop family being abused.

Claims the account had been suspended by Twitter are wrong.

Knight has dismissed the global Twitter storm over his depiction of a tantrum-throwing Williams during the final of the US Open.

The Herald Sun’s veteran cartoonist says his portrayal was never about race or gender — rather the sporting superstar’s bad behaviour.

Knight’s take on Williams’ blow up showed the 23 Grand Slam winner spitting the dummy and stomping on her tennis racquet as the chair umpire told US Open champion Naomi Osaka in the background: “Can you just let her win.”

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Eric Deron and three pals #fundie heraldsun.com.au

Three men and a woman are accused of tying up the Cameroonian teenager in the position of Christ on the cross and keeping her bound to a mattress for seven days in the belief that her body had been possessed by the devil.

The four, including the victim's former boyfriend, were charged with kidnapping, acts of torture and barbarism.

When police discovered the woman at a housing estate in Grigny in the southern Paris suburbs, she was emaciated, dehydrated, in a state of shock and showed signs of having been beaten.

The victim later testified that her captors had kept her alive by feeding her small amounts of oil and water.

Her former boyfriend, Eric Deron, is accused of being the instigator of the assault and, according to prosecutors, had delusions of being a sort of prophet on a divine mission.

According to statements made by the accused, the exorcism was organised after the victim allegedly leaped on Deron whilst babbling incomprehensibly, an attack he took as evidence she had been possessed by the devil.

Murray Campbell #fundie heraldsun.com.au

[re: a church where members dress up as science fiction and fantasy characters]

"I don't have a problem with people enjoying sci-fi, but church isn't the place to encourage escapism and fancy dress," Mentone Baptist minister Murray Campbell said.

Zac of Melbourne #fundie heraldsun.com.au

Don't be bothered by all the idiots defending evolution. They have their heads in the sand and don't realise they have been brain-washed - the scientific establishment has bullied Intelligent Design scientists into silence, however there are millions of scientists who firmly believe that God created life. People have a blind un-questioning faith in evolution, it is their god, and it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in anything else!

Clinton David Rintoull #racist heraldsun.com.au

A MAN bragged he was going to kill blacks and "take his town back" minutes before bashing a Sudanese teenager to death.

Clinton David Rintoull sprayed racist graffiti on the walls of his house and complained that immigrants had "turned his town into the Bronx" before fatally beating Liep Gony in September 2007.

Mr Gony, 19, suffered horrific head injuries and was left to die in a Noble Park street.

"They probably don't respect our way of life ... f....g niggers chasing us around,'' Rintoull allegedly said.

"We should go get 'em, f...g bash 'em. Someone's got to do something.''

Rintoull, 24, pleaded guilty today in the Supreme Court to Mr Gony's murder, while his friend, Dylan Giuseppe Sabatino, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The pair were arrested after fleeing to South Australia after the attack.

Prosecutor Aaron Shwartz said the murder was a racially-motivated, unprovoked attack on an unarmed man.

He said Rintoull had been chased by a group of Sudanese men a few nights earlier and had brooded over the incident.

After a drinking session on September 26, 2007 Rintoull and others trashed their rental property and daubed racist slurs on the walls, photographing themselves in front of their handiwork.

Rintoull was later seen out on the street ranting about "blacks'' and wielding a metal pole.

"I guess I'll go and take out my anger on some niggers,'' Rintoull said.