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		<title>Ayah Pin, leader of Sky Kingdom cult, living in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22931"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/teapot-cult.jpg" alt="Sky Kingdom teapot cult" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Sky Kingdom teapot cult"></a> At the height of his popularity, the self-styled Prophet had four wives and had a following of 21 followers, including a police inspector and a drummer of a rock group, all whom were arrested and are now on trial.
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Known for his giant structures of a teapot, vase, umbrella, concrete boat and a “palace” at his commune, he had claimed God was human and his deviant teachings included not making Friday prayers compulsory.]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Kingdom member gets two years for apostasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Malaysia, quitting Islam gets you a jail term.]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia: Sharia court dismisses Ayah Pin follower application to be apostate from Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Islamic court in Malaysia refuses to allow a woman to reject Islam in favor of a religious cult. ]]></description>
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		<title>Woman who declared herself an apostate has to enter her defence in Syariah court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the Sky Kingdom sect, a quasi-religious movement persecuted by the Malaysian governmetn, who declared herself to be a non-Muslim in order to avoid a penalty, must appear before an Islamic court.]]></description>
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		<title>All’s quiet at Sky Kingdom’s one-time commune</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not many people visit the site where the controversial deviationist sect Sky Kingdom once stood. The gleaming structures are all gone.]]></description>
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		<title>No sign of Sky Kingdom revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Terengganu government has dismissed any possibility of the defunct Sky Kingdom cult being revived by one of its founder's followers.]]></description>
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		<title>Former inspector takes over Sky Kingdom sect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a year after 66-year-old cult leader Ayah Pin had gone into hiding, the Sky Kingdom is now believed to have a new and younger head.]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Kingdom: Apostasy claim &#8216;to avoid penalty&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA TERENGGANU: A follower of cult leader Ariffin Mohamad, a.k.a Ayah Pin, had declared herself an apostate to escape punishment.
Prosecutor Mustafar Hamzah said this in his closing arguments at the Syariah High Court yesterday in the trial of Kamariah Ali, 54, who was charged under Section 7 of the Syariah Criminal Offences Enactment (Takzir) (Terengganu) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ayah Pin still hiding in Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14499/ayah-pin-still-hiding-in-thailand</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KOTA BARU: Cult leader Ariffin Mohamad or &#8220;Ayah Pin&#8220;, now hiding in Narathiwat, southern Thailand, has not entered Malaysia for at least five months and is suffering from chronic diabetes.
Ariffin, on the run from the Malaysian authorities since an attack on his commune in Terengganu last year, used to commute frequently between here and Chamerong, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial of 18 sect followers transferred</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JERTEH: The second mention of the case involving 18 followers of the Sky Kingdom sect took an unexpected turn at the Syariah Lower Court in Kampung Raja here. 
Judge Mohd Nazri Yusof ordered the case to be transferred to the Syariah High Court in Kuala Terengganu, a move which surprised the prosecution. 
Mohd Nazri said [...]]]></description>
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