Religious Insanity
This is our collection of religion-related news stories about some of the dumbest, silliest, or evil acts committed in the name of religion.
You may prefer to read the light-hearted fare in our offbeat religion news section.
Tuesday October 28, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery in the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.The 23-year-old woman was executed late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August, witnesses said.
Monday October 6, 2008
Hate Groups • Islam • Religious Insanity:
A ranting hate preacher is touring the Midlands in an attempt to radicalise young Muslims and promote extremism.Abu Waleed – a disciple of hook-handed fanatic Abu Hamza – told audiences in Birmingham, Derby and Leicester that they should rise up against Britain.
Friday October 3, 2008
Al-Arqam • Religious Insanity:
A couple who went to a relative’s house to celebrate the end of Ramadan and agreed to an ‘alternative treatment’ to rid them of their problems, ended up dead after being battered with helmets and broomsticks during the cleansing ritual. Five others who also participated in the ritual, including the couple’s children and relatives, suffered head injuries and were being treated at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital here.
Monday September 29, 2008
Hate Groups • Islam • Religious Insanity:
Police in London are holding three suspected terrorists after a weekend arson attack at the London home of the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Mohamed’s child bride.Two Muslim hate criminals said that further attacks would be “inevitable” if publication of the novel, The Jewel of Medina, goes ahead as planned next month.
Wednesday September 17, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Our ‘Religious Insanity Award of the Day’ goes to this creature: Saudi sheikh slams Disney icon as ‘a soldier of Satan,’ says ‘impure corrupter’ must be killed according to Islamic law.
We’ve got some advice for the sheikh…
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Defying threats from Muslim hate criminal Omar Bakri (reason why this item is filed under the topic of ‘religious insanity’), Paul McCartney stands by his decision in honor of the country’s 60th anniversary. Bakri has declared Paul McCartney “the enemy of every Muslim.” Like we said: religious insanity.
Sunday September 14, 2008
Hate Groups • Islam • Religious Insanity:
A hate fanatic has boasted that Muslims will one day conquer Britain — by having more babies. Speaking at a rally marking 9/11, Anjem Choudary bragged that a birth explosion would let followers of Islam take control of the country.
Undercover Sun investigators secretly recorded Choudary telling a young and impressionable audience that they would eventually rule under strict Sharia law.
Friday September 12, 2008
Hate Groups • Islam • Religious Insanity:
The next 9/11 will take place in Britain, members of a banned Muslim extremist group warned on the anniversary of the terror attacks. The claim was made at a hate-filled meeting addressed via video link by exiled cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed.
Thursday September 11, 2008
Free Speech • Islam • Religious Insanity:
Islam is incompatible with free speech (and a host of other values observed by civilized nations).In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam.
The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil.
Tuesday September 2, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
A Muslim hospital worker in the UK refuses to abide by nationwide hygiene rules has left her job, claiming she was discriminated against and forced to choose between her religious beliefs and her livelihood.Our view: The hospital worker discriminates against non-Muslims by insisting that they choose between her religious views and the safety of others.
Monday September 1, 2008
Islam • Religious Insanity:
Three teenage girls have been buried alive by their tribe in a remote part of Pakistan to punish them for attempting to choose their own husbands, in an “honour” killing case. After news of the deaths emerged, male politicians from their province, Baluchistan, defended the killings in parliament, claiming the practice was part of “our tribal custom”.
Friday August 8, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
Canadian border guards have been told to bar members of a fanatical American church from entering the country after they announced plans to protest at the funeral of the man decapitated on a Greyhound bus, says a Winnipeg MP.The hate group — which masquerades as a Christian church — is known for its despicable behavior at funerals and elsewhere.
Thursday August 7, 2008
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
A despicable hate group that masquerades as a Christian church is helping to advertise a play about its founder by doing what it does best: spewing putrid hatred.The Westboro Baptist Church also plans to protest at the funeral of a young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week.
Wednesday August 6, 2008
Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Islam • Religious Insanity:
The Norwegian Islamic Council is still waiting for a reply from the European Fatwa Council before it decides whether or not it is in favour of the death penalty for homosexuality. “Unacceptable,” says lesbian Sara Asmeh Rasmussen.
Religious insanity, says Religion News Blog.
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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