http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23868/muslim-terrorist-nalid-malik-husan http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23868/muslim-terrorist-nalid-malik-husan#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:49:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23868 An American imam who once led the mosque attended by Nalid Malik Hasan, the man suspected of shooting 13 people dead at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, has said the army major did not seem to be an extremist.

But a former aremy colleague quoted Hasan as saying Muslims should "rise up" and attack Americans in retaliation for the US war in Iraq. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23868/muslim-terrorist-nalid-malik-husan/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23860/american-torture-kidnappers-convicted http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23860/american-torture-kidnappers-convicted#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:11:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23860 MILAN — An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition, AP reports.

The American suspects — all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents — are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23860/american-torture-kidnappers-convicted/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23856/mohammad-movie http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23856/mohammad-movie#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:07:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23856 An epic film about Islam's Prophet Mohammad backed by the producer of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" is being planned with the aim of "bridging cultures".

Movie producer Barrie Osborne told Reuters, "The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23856/mohammad-movie/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23855/theo-van-gogh-murdered-by-islamic-hate-criminal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23855/theo-van-gogh-murdered-by-islamic-hate-criminal#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:45:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23855 The Dutch are marking the fifth anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands, AP writes.

Watch the movie Van Gogh was murdered for.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23855/theo-van-gogh-murdered-by-islamic-hate-criminal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23853/islamic-hate-group-calls-cancels-pro-sharia-demonstration http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23853/islamic-hate-group-calls-cancels-pro-sharia-demonstration#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:08:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23853 A demonstration of Muslim hardliners calling for sharia law to be imposed in Britain was cancelled in London over the weekend amid planned counter-protests by democratic Muslims.

Anjem Choudary, leader of the radical Islamic group Al Muhajiroun, said that organisers of the Islam4UK demo had cancelled the march from the Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square on 31 October 2009 because of security concerns.

The Islamic Society of Britain, which was planning to join other organisations in staging a "dignified, non-violent" counter-demonstration, hailed the cancellation as a "great success".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23853/islamic-hate-group-calls-cancels-pro-sharia-demonstration/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23851/blogger-hani-nazeer-forced-islam-conversion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23851/blogger-hani-nazeer-forced-islam-conversion#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:03:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23851 A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt entering his second year of prison without charge is being pressured to convert to Islam in exchange for his freedom, his attorneys said.

On Oct. 3, 2008, Hani Nazeer, a 28-year-old high school social worker from Qena, Egypt and author of the blog “Karz El Hob” (“Love Cherries”), was arrested by Egypt’s State Security Investigations (SSI) and sent to Burj Al-Arab prison.

Although police never charged him with any crime, Nazeer has been detained for more than a year under Egypt’s administrative imprisonment law.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23851/blogger-hani-nazeer-forced-islam-conversion/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23848/islamic-hate-group-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23848/islamic-hate-group-2#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:03:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23848 A Detroit imam shot and killed Wednesday in a gunfight with federal agents belonged to a Muslim separatist sect led by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, better known as 1960s militant H. Rap Brown, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday.

The FBI says the dead man was an imam, or prayer leader, of a local faction of Ummah, a group that seeks to establish an Islamic state within the U.S]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23848/islamic-hate-group-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23839/mohammad-cartoons-muslim-terrorist-plot http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23839/mohammad-cartoons-muslim-terrorist-plot#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:50:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23839 Two Chicago men have been charged in what officials said was a plot to attack employees of a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that offended many Muslims, according to criminal complaints unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Chicago.

One of the men had initially targeted a building occupied by the Danish newspaper, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23839/mohammad-cartoons-muslim-terrorist-plot/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23825/pakistan-police-torture-christians-arrested-in-islamic-attack http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23825/pakistan-police-torture-christians-arrested-in-islamic-attack#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:19:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23825 Two Christians in Gojra, Pakistan who allegedly fired warning shots as an Islamist mob approached that burned seven Christians to death on Aug. 1 told Compass they were tortured after police arrested them.

From his jail cell, Naveed Masih told Compass that he and his brother were taken to the Police Training Centre in Choong, where they were kept in illegal detention for 18 days and were tortured “in so many ways ruthlessly and in inhumane ways.” ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23825/pakistan-police-torture-christians-arrested-in-islamic-attack/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23823/judge-orders-fathima-rifqa-bary-to-return-to-ohio http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23823/judge-orders-fathima-rifqa-bary-to-return-to-ohio#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:00:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23823 Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teenage runaway whose story of Muslim-to-Christianity conversion and charges of family abuse sparked debates about personal freedom, is going back to her home state.

Meanwhile a taped interview has been released in which the girl told Florida investigators about her religious conversion, explained how and why she ended up in Florida and detailed a fearful life with her Muslim family, including the fact she was supposed to be in an arranged marriage.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23823/judge-orders-fathima-rifqa-bary-to-return-to-ohio/feed 0