Religious Insanity
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Friday August 1, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
We file stories like this under both ‘Islam’ and ‘religious insanity’: Saudi Arabia’s religious police have banned selling cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said.
The 5000-strong religious police oversees the adherence to Wahabism – a strict version of Sunni Islam, which also forces women to cover from head to toe when in public, and bans them from driving.
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Thursday June 19, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Terrorise the non-believers, orders ‘Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe’ after he is freed on bail
No surprises here: allow a rabid dog out of his cage and he is more than likely to turn on you:Preacher of hate, Abu Quatada — who has been described as Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe — was released on bail from Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire on Tuesday after the blocking of his deportation to Jordan, where he is wanted on terror charges.
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Tuesday June 17, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
A headscarf-wearing woman who was turned down for a job in a hair salon has won a payout — not the 34.000 British Pound windfall she was looking for, but still an amount high enough to make you question the sanity of the judges involved. » Full Story
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Catholic Church • Religious Insanity:
A couple, legally married, is denied a church wedding by a Catholic bishop — who in so doing has added himself to our collection of stories filed under ‘religious insanity.’ » Full Story
Saturday May 31, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher — for not learning the Koran.
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Wednesday May 21, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
The Westboro hate group, which masquerades as a church, may loose all its property.
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Islam • Religious Insanity:
A Muslim husband threatened to sue an all-female driving school after discovering that his wife’s driving instructor used to be a man.
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to release a Saudi university professor who is facing flogging and imprisonment for meeting a woman to whom he is not related for coffee in the conservative Islamic kingdom.
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Friday May 9, 2008
Religious Insanity:
British Airways redefines ‘religious insanity.’ Again.
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Sunday April 6, 2008
Islam • Offbeat News • Religious Insanity:
Mohammed Anwar said a ban would make it difficult to commute between his two wives and fulfil his matrimonial duties.
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Thursday April 3, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
In response to criticism Wednesday about the organization’s notoriously brutal tactics, Al-Zawahri maintained that Al-Qaida does not kill innocents. (See, there’s a good reason why we file this under ‘religious insanity’).
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Tuesday April 1, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Muslim woman wants to work as a hairdresser. Falsely claims that wearing a headscraf is ‘essential’ to her religion. Shop specializing in “urban, edgy and funky” cuts turns down her application. Muslim woman sues for religious discrimination. Sigh.
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Tuesday March 25, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
The champion boxer was condemned by Omar Bakri Mohammed for draping himself in the Union flag and wearing shorts bearing the symbol.
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Monday March 24, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to beat up Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.
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Thursday March 13, 2008
Micah Armstrong • Religious Insanity:
You’re going to hell if you drink beer, Michael Armstrong says. You’re going to hell if you curse. You’re going to hell if you smoke dope, masturbate, fornicate, watch a Hollywood movie, listen to rap, read “Harry Potter” books or attend most Protestant churches, Armstrong says. [video]
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Tuesday February 26, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Muslim medics in hospitals in at least three major English cities have refused to follow the regulations aimed at helping tackle superbugs because of their faith, it has been revealed.
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Thursday February 21, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
The ‘religion of peace’ — and cruelty: A 70-year-old man has been sentenced by an Iranian judge to four months in jail and 30 lashes for going out on the street with his dog.
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Monday February 18, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Prompted by his father, the five-year-old says he also wants to kill “Kuffar” (an abusive term for a non-Muslim), “Hindu”, “Sheedi” (a term for a black man), “Pathan” (a member of an Indian tribe) and “Sharab” (alcohol). Khan – whose role looking after his 71-year-old mother “earned” him an allowance of £160 a week – was also recorded telling associates the only reason he was living in the UK was to steal the nation’s wealth and send it abroad.
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Islam • Religious Insanity:
Parviz Khan, 37, from Birmingham, wanted to burn the soldier’s body and parade his head on a stick.
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Saturday February 16, 2008
Religious Insanity • Wiley S. Drake:
For the second time in six months, Buena Park pastor Wiley S. Drake has called on his followers to pray for the demise of leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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Monday February 11, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Religious insanity at work: Saudi Arabia’s religious police have banned red roses ahead of Valentine’s Day, forcing couples in the conservative Muslim nation to think of new ways to show their love.
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Thursday February 7, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.
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Sunday February 3, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
A Muslim woman suing an Islington hairdresser for religious discrimination says she has received hate mail and has more than doubled her compensation claim.
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Tuesday January 29, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
By now just about everyone knows that the Westboro Baptist Church is the poster child for religious insanity. But the hate group continues to get press due to the increasing vileness of the sewage it pumps.
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Thursday January 24, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
The Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — continues its sick practice of picketing funerals.
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