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Sunday April 29, 2012
Dove World Outreach Center • Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Terry Jones:
Controversial pastor Terry Jones has burned copies of the Koran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest the imprisonment in Iran of ‘Christian’ clergyman Youcef Nadarkhani — a follower of a cult of Christianity. The tiny church headed by Jones is considered a hate group.
Monday April 23, 2012
Islam • Religious Persecution:
A recent “reconciliation meeting” between members of a Muslim mob that attacked a Christian-owned school in Egypt and school administrators was nothing less than an attempt at legalized extortion, the director of the school said. In exchange for peace, members of the sword-wielding mob that stormed the school last month without provocation – and held two nuns hostage for several hours – initially demanded in the meetings that the school sign over parcels of land that include the guesthouse the Muslim extremists attacked.
Friday April 6, 2012
Free Speech • Human Rights Violations • Islam • Religious Persecution:
In a show of partiality to Muslims who go unprosecuted for like offenses against Christianity, a juvenile court in Egypt sentenced a Coptic Christian teenager to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Islam. The court claimed that he posted cartoons on his Facebook account in December that mocked the Islamic religion and its prophet, Muhammad.
Tuesday April 3, 2012
Hate Groups • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog:
A group of Islamic radicals have been charged with planning to kidnap a French judge. The head of France’s Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence (DCRI), Bernard Squarcini, said on Saturday that those arrested the previous day were French nationals involved in “warlike training, linked to violent religious indoctrination”.
Thursday March 1, 2012
Hate Groups • Islam:
While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church. Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, are still not sure what kind of chemicals Muslim extremists cast on Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside of Kampala last Christmas Eve, but they know that the acid is threatening the vision in his remaining eye.
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.
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.”
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