http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26366/al-qaeda-cell-in-turkey-accused-of-planning-to-bomb-churches http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26366/al-qaeda-cell-in-turkey-accused-of-planning-to-bomb-churches#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:47:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26366 A large-scale Al Qaeda plot to bomb “all the churches in Ankara,” as well as the Turkish Parliament and U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, was made public today.

Prepared and filed by the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Ankara, the 50-page indictment outlined the militants’ revised “jihad” strategy to begin focusing their attacks against Turkey before waging war against the United States and other countries.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26366/al-qaeda-cell-in-turkey-accused-of-planning-to-bomb-churches/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25932/sea-burial-of-osama-bin-laden-breaks-sharia-law-say-muslim-scholars http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25932/sea-burial-of-osama-bin-laden-breaks-sharia-law-say-muslim-scholars#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 05:09:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25932 Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was quickly criticised by Muslim scholars who claimed it had breached sharia law and warned that it may provoke calls for revenge attacks against US targets.

Others used the sea burial question to question whether he was dead at all, with doubts fuelled by the absence of authentic photographs of his corpse.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25932/sea-burial-of-osama-bin-laden-breaks-sharia-law-say-muslim-scholars/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24650/al-quaida-magazine-aims-to-radicalize-english-speaking-muslims http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24650/al-quaida-magazine-aims-to-radicalize-english-speaking-muslims#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:03:03 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24650 Inspire features slick graphics, high-quality production and stories like "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom." The first page also promises an editorial from Osama bin Laden himself, although due to technical issues, only three pages of the magazine are currently available.

Inspire is being published by a Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida, and it's aimed at radicalizing an English-speaking audience. Al-Qaida has a well-established propaganda arm, but, as analyst Juan Zarate tells NPR host Guy Raz, Inspire marks its first major effort to reach out to English speakers.

Zarate is a former deputy national security adviser in the Bush administration and is currently a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He says that despite concerns about the authenticity of Inspire, he believes it genuinely does come from al-Qaida. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24650/al-quaida-magazine-aims-to-radicalize-english-speaking-muslims/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18755/al-qaida http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18755/al-qaida#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:54:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18755/al-qaida http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18755/al-qaida/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16659/jew-turned-muslim-offers-knowledge-of-al-qaeda http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16659/jew-turned-muslim-offers-knowledge-of-al-qaeda#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:09:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16659/jew-turned-muslim-offers-knowledge-of-al-qaeda http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16659/jew-turned-muslim-offers-knowledge-of-al-qaeda/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16003/bin-laden-death-unconfirmed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16003/bin-laden-death-unconfirmed#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:28:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16003/bin-laden-death-unconfirmed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16003/bin-laden-death-unconfirmed/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9214/bin-ladens-message-a-call-to-bleed-the-united-states-economically http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9214/bin-ladens-message-a-call-to-bleed-the-united-states-economically#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2004 19:10:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9214 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9214/bin-ladens-message-a-call-to-bleed-the-united-states-economically/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9178/bin-laden-video-threatens-america http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9178/bin-laden-video-threatens-america#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:48:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9178 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9178/bin-laden-video-threatens-america/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9048/iraq-war-helped-al-qaeda-recruit http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9048/iraq-war-helped-al-qaeda-recruit#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:15:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9048 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9048/iraq-war-helped-al-qaeda-recruit/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9047/al-qaeda-threat-growing-in-western-europe http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9047/al-qaeda-threat-growing-in-western-europe#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:07:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http:/?p=9047 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9047/al-qaeda-threat-growing-in-western-europe/feed 0