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11 more defectors from the Church of Scientology have provided accounts of physical or mental abuse by Scientology leader David Miscavige.

The cult — known for its hate- and harassment activities, including character assassination — has a hypocritical response. Yet it cannot get around the fact that its founder codified unethical behavior toward those who criticize Scientology.

More evidence that the cult’s glossy ads hide a stark truth: that of a destructive cult in decline.
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Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest-ranking executives to leave the Church of Scientology, are speaking out for the first time.

Two other former executives who defected also agreed to interviews with the St. Petersburg Times: De Vocht, who for years oversaw the church’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, and Amy Scobee, who helped create Scientology’s celebrity network, which caters to the likes of John Travolta and Tom Cruise.

One by one, the four defectors walked away from the only life they knew. That Rathbun and Rinder are speaking out is a stunning reversal because they were among Miscavige’s closest associates, Haldeman and Ehrlichman to his Nixon.
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One of Britain’s most notorious preachers of hate is back on the streets after being freed early from jail.

Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said the men were a danger to society.

‘Abu Izzadeen and his organisation publicly call for attacks against those whom they see as enemies of Islam,’ he said.
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As Taliban control hits pockets of Pakistan and threatens the nation’s stability, Christians worry their province could be the next to fall under Islamic law.

Christians in Taiser town, near Karachi, noticed on the walls of their church graffiti that read, “Long Live the Taliban” and calls for Christians to either convert to Islam or pay the jizye, a poll tax under sharia (Islamic law) paid by non-Muslims for protection if they decline to convert.
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A white supremacist hate group known as Aryan Nations has moved its ‘world headquarters’ back to Idaho.

One of its leaders says he expects membership to grow because of the election of President Barack Obama.
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The Taleban, whose followers believe they are adherents of the purest form of Islam, have murdered a young couple after accusing them of immoral acts.

The woman, Gul Pecha, 19, and the man, Abdul Aziz, 21, were executed by a Taleban firing squad in front of a crowd.
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The state of Georgia plans to execute a man later this month for murdering a follower of his small white supremacist group more than a decade ago.

A former Ku Klux Klan member, William Mark Mize, shot Eddie Tucker with a shotgun, execution-style, in October 1994 after Tucker didn’t carry out an order to burn down a crack house, state prosecutors said.
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A headmistress who was hounded out of her job after being falsely accused of racism was yesterday awarded more than £400,000 in compensation.

A campaign by two Muslim governors to give Islam a greater presence in a state school played a key part in forcing the successful head from her job, the High Court found yesterday.
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Police raided apartments and offices throughout Germany in the biggest-ever action aimed at stamping out the radical-right music scene.

Authorities searched more than 200 locations on Wednesday, March 4, confiscating 45,000 CDs, more than 170 computers and some 70 weapons.
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The savages who operate the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — have announced on their website that they intent to picket the funerals of people killed in last Wednesday’s plane crash at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The cult is best known for its despicable practice of picketing the funerals of people its delusional followers object to.
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Glosslip.com reports that well-known anti-Scientology critic Mark Bunker was arrested along with another critic, Mark Lowell at the Scientology’s Hemet, California compound known as Gold Base.

The cult, which has a long history of hate- and harassment activities, has pressured the Riverside County Board of Supervisors into imposing picketing limits.
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A report by an Islamic anti-extremism foundation says “Foreign imams, poorly paid and with limited proficiency in English, are ill-equipped to navigate Britain’s complex, liberal and multi-faith society.

“By failing to reach out to young British Muslims, radical Islamists have the upper-hand. Britain’s young Muslims, without a voice in mosques, are looking elsewhere for religious guidance and will continue to be drawn in by young, articulate extremists who offer an alternative narrative, cause and social space.”
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The Home Secretary has banned two extremist anti-gay preachers from entering Britain. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who belong to the US Westboro Baptist Church, were planning to come to the UK to protest outside a performance of a youth play which recounts the death of gay university student.

Other members of their hate group will be stopped from entering the country as well.
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The Westboro, Kansas hate group that masquerades as a church has threatened to picket a sixth form college in England during a staging of The Laramie Project, a play about an American youth murdered because of his sexuality.

Details of the group’s first picket in Britain was posted on their website with the slogan “God Hates England; Your Queen Is A W—-”.
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A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Women are often allowed through military checkpoints without being searched, making it easier for them to hide explosives under their traditional robes.

Our question: with Muslims around the world going nuts over cartoons, teddy bears and freedom of speech, when will we see them protest this kind of religious insanity?
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An Australian court sentenced a Muslim cleric to 15 years jail Tuesday for leading a terrorist cell that planned to bomb a football match in Melbourne in 2005, ending Australia’s biggest terrorism trial, local media reported.

Several of his followers were involved in stripping stolen cars and selling the parts to raise money for the group.
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Video footage posted on a website shows police officers running way from chanting demonstrators who took part in a violent protest in London against Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The video, posted on YouTube, shows protesters chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greatest) and ‘Fatwa’, a death threat under Islamic law.

Given the behavior of the Muslims shown in the video, this news item is filed in both the ‘Islam’ and ‘hate groups’ category.
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The man who founded the Virginia nonprofit paying for the push to make English Nashville’s official language also is behind several organizations that have been labeled hate groups.

Dr. John H. Tanton, a retired eye surgeon, started both ProEnglish and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The Southern Poverty Law Center identified FAIR as a hate group last winter based on its acceptance of $1.2 million from a white supremacist organization, employees’ ties to other such groups and a history of “anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes.”
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Adolf Hitler Campbell and his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, were taken from their Holland Township, N.J., home on Friday by the state’s Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), Sgt. John Harris of the Holland Township Police Department told FOXNews.com.

New Jersey officials said Wednesday that it is not just a matter of names. “DYFS would never remove a child simply based on that child’s name,” Bernyk said.
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Prominent British Jews have been advised to review their security arrangements after several were identified on Islamist websites as “financial supporters of Israel”.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Labour peer Lord Levy were also named on an Islamic website. A strand on the site asks for help to compile a list, and a link to the Power 100 list of top British Jews is added. Other figures indentified on the website include Anthony Julius, who was Princess Diana’s divorce lawyer. On the site, a figure called “Abuislam” asks: “Have we got a list of top Jews we can target?”
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The terrorists of Hamas — who use cartoons to encourage children to kill Jews — now threaten that fellow Islamists will kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel’s police incursion into the Gaza strip.

In doing so these cowards — bent on the destruction of the state of Israel — show their true nature.
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The mayor of a small town in eastern Germany has gone into hiding after a threat on his life appeared on a far-right Web site. The case follows the knife attack by a suspected neo-Nazi this month, generating fears that the far-right scene is becoming more violent.

Recent figures show that the number of far-right crimes committed in the first 10 months of 2008 exceeded the total for the whole of last year.
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Type the name “Martin Luther King” into the popular Google Internet search engine, and find a surprise: among the expected university and newspaper links, one site — the third highest ranked link — stands out.

It attacks the personal life of the slain civil rights leader and, by extension, the movement of nonviolence he championed. It rehashes allegations of plagiarism and adultery and accuses King of fraud, claiming he was not a “legitimate reverend” or “bonafide Ph.D.”

The site is run by a white supremacist group called Stormfront, described by one watchdog organization as the largest “hate group” online
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German police have arrested two suspects over the stabbing of a German police chief and are investigating several other people active in the neo-Nazi scene, prosecutors said on Monday.

Alois Mannichl, 52, police chief in the southern city of Passau, was seriously injured when he was stabbed in front of his home on Saturday. Police said the attacker made threats with language used by far-right supporters.
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Islamic hate criminals are being encouraged to use the online site through postings on other Islamic forums on the Internet, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

Last week, an extremist authored step-by-step instructions on posting video to YouTube, which he described as “one of the most famous and biggest international sites that publish sections of videos from all over the world.”
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