Hate Groups
Tuesday February 7, 2012
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology:
One of the Church of Scientology’s senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time with perverting the course of justice. Eastgate is the international president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights — a hate group found by the Church of Scientology engaged in a hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrists.
Wednesday January 25, 2012
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church:
The Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — has announced its next publicity seeking opportunity. The hatemongers feel called to picket the funeral of Joe Paterno.
Boko Haram • Hate Groups • Islam • Nigeria • Religious Persecution:
Early morning attacks in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi state on Sunday left at least seven Christians dead and a church building destroyed. The attack on the Evangelical Church Winning All Church 2 was carried out by area Islamic extremists alongside members of the Boko Haram sect, with the church building and surrounding houses bombed.
Monday January 23, 2012
Anti-Semitism • Germany • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Anti-Jewish feeling is “significantly” entrenched in German society, according to a report by experts appointed by Germany’s parliament. They say the internet has played a key role in spreading Holocaust denial, far-right and extreme Islamist views.
Friday January 20, 2012
Hate Groups • Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Three Muslim men in England have been found guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation after distributing a leaflet that said Islam called for anyone caught committing homosexuality to be executed. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan Javed handed out the pamphlet, called The Death Penalty?, which showed an image of a mannequin hanging from a noose and quoted Islamic texts that said capital punishment was the only way to rid society of homosexuality.
Hate Groups • Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • RNB's Religion News Blog:
A protest outside the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. last Tuesday put the spotlight on a clash of views between the center and a coalition of African-American pastors and their supporters. The groups of pastors condemn the SPLC for using its “hate group” label to describe faith-based organizations that are against the LGBT lifestyle
Wednesday January 11, 2012
Hate Groups • Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog:
Five Muslim men from Derby, UK, have gone on trial for allegedly handing out leaflets calling for gay people to be killed in the first ever prosecution under new legislation making such actions a hate crime. They are accused of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
al-Shabab | Al Shabaab • Hate Groups • Religious Persecution:
A Somali convert from Islam was paraded before a cheering crowd last month and publicly flogged as a punishment for embracing a “foreign religion,” sources said. Sofia Osman, a 28-year-old Christian from Janale city in Somali’as Lower Shabelle region, had been taken into custody by Islamic extremist al Shabaab militants in November; the public whipping was meant to mark her release.
Thursday December 29, 2011
Hate Groups • Islam • Uganda:
Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other. On Oct. 15, area Muslim leaders declared a fatwa against him demanding his death.
Saturday December 10, 2011
Al-Qaeda • Hate Groups • Islam • Turkey:
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.
Wednesday November 30, 2011
Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • White Supremacy:
Notorious serial hater David Duke has been arrested in Germany and is facing deportation. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups and fights discrimination cases, describes Duke as the “most recognizable figure of the American radical right, a neo-Nazi, longtime Klan leader and now international spokesman for Holocaust denial.”
Monday November 28, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Scientology:
An Australian resident has told Lateline, an Australian television news and current affairs program, that the Church of Scientology imprisoned her on its cruise ship The Freewinds. Valeska Paris says the Church of Scientology’s leader David Miscavige — who she describes as a psychopath — sent her to the ship when she was 17, to prevent her mother taking her away from Scientology.
Thursday November 10, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog:
An Idaho attorney who once represented the white supremacist Aryan Nations group was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in federal prison in the failed plot to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Edgar J. Steele wanted the women dead so he could collect on an uninsured motorist insurance policy and be free to pursue a relationship with a woman from Ukraine.
Wednesday November 2, 2011
Hate Groups • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog:
In yet another Muslim attack on free speech the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb — a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue. The fiercely anti-clerical magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication “Sharia Hebdo”, was intended to “celebrate” the victory of Islamist party Ennhada in Tunisia’s election.
Hate Groups • Militia Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog:
U.S. Federal agents arrested four suspected members of a Georgia militia on charges of plotting attacks with toxins and explosives in Atlanta and against unnamed government officials.
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