http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24153/wesboro-baptist-church-hate-group http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24153/wesboro-baptist-church-hate-group#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:07:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24153 The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether vitriolic anti-gay protestors who picket the funerals of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws.

The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church and uses free speech as an excuses for despicable behavior.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24153/wesboro-baptist-church-hate-group/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24029/uk-extremist-islamist-groups-to-be-banned-under-new-terror-laws http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24029/uk-extremist-islamist-groups-to-be-banned-under-new-terror-laws#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:58:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24029 The Islamist group Islam4UK, which planned a march through Wootton Bassett, and its "parent" organisation, al-Muhajiroun, are to be banned under new legislation outlawing the "glorification" of terrorism.

The decision to proscribe the two organisations, which will have to be endorsed by parliament, will make it a criminal offence punishable by a prison term of up to 10 years to be a member of either organisation, or to attend or address their meetings]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24029/uk-extremist-islamist-groups-to-be-banned-under-new-terror-laws/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24017/muslim-mob-in-pakistan-wounds-christian-family http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24017/muslim-mob-in-pakistan-wounds-christian-family#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:55:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24017 Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attacked his Christian family here last week, beating his 20-year-old sister unconscious and breaking her leg.

The woman’s father, Aleem Mansoor, said his daughter Elishba Aleem went unconscious after being struck in the head with an iron rod in the Dec. 28 attack. Mansoor said a Muslim known as Mogal beat him and his daughter with the rod on the street in front of their apartment home after falsely accusing his 32-year old son, who suffers from schizophrenia, of blasphemy.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24017/muslim-mob-in-pakistan-wounds-christian-family/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23903/jailed-muslim-terrorists-promote-jihad http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23903/jailed-muslim-terrorists-promote-jihad#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:56:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23903 In an authoritative report, Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank funded by the UK's Home Office, claims “mismanagement” by the Prison Service is helping Al Qaeda gain recruits and risks “strengthening jihadist movements”.

For instance, Abu Qatada, described by MI5 as “Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, has published fatwas -- religious rulings -- on the internet from Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire, calling for holy war and the murder of moderate Muslims, it reveals.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23903/jailed-muslim-terrorists-promote-jihad/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/23797/taliban-threatens-to-kill-more-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23797/taliban-threatens-to-kill-more-christians#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:58:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23797 In a letter sent to the Christian community in the northeastern city of Sargodha, Taliban militants said Christians should convert to Islam, pay an Islamic tax imposed on religious minorities, known as 'Jizya tax', or leave the country.

If Christians refuse to accept these choices, Christians “will be killed, their property and homes will be burnt to ashes and their women treated as sex slaves,” said the letter.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23797/taliban-threatens-to-kill-more-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23784/radical-muslims-want-sharia-law-in-britain http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23784/radical-muslims-want-sharia-law-in-britain#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:57:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23784 Radical Muslim group Islam4UK has launched a campaign to impose sharia law on Britain, starting with a rally in London, according to a report.

The hate group -- an offshoot of the banned Al-Mahajiroun extremist sect -- says "we have had enough of democracy and man-made law and the depravity of the British culture."

Tory MP Philip Davies replies, "“The simple solution is for these people to move to a country which already has sharia law.”"

Meanwhile a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain said: “99.999 per cent of Muslims despise these people. This only serves to fuel racial ­tensions.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23784/radical-muslims-want-sharia-law-in-britain/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23782/ahmadiyah-attacked-by-muslims http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23782/ahmadiyah-attacked-by-muslims#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:37:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23782 In Indonesia, a series of attacks on followers of the Ahmadiyah sect by fanatical Muslims -- who consider the movement to be a cult of Islam -- continues to draw criticism.

Alfred C. Stepan, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University in New York, an expert in religion and democracy urging the government to exercise its authority when there are violations of human rights.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23782/ahmadiyah-attacked-by-muslims/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23736/former-muslim-receiving-death-threats http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23736/former-muslim-receiving-death-threats#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:54:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23736 Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions.

One caller offered Husibi's young Muslim wife $10,000 to leave him and return to her native Syria, he said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23736/former-muslim-receiving-death-threats/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23646/islamic-barbarians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23646/islamic-barbarians#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:03:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23646 Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for victims.

"It is the easiest way to find those people who are destroying Islam and who want to dirty the reputation we took centuries to build up," he said. When he finds them, Hamizi arranges for them to be attacked and sometimes killed.

Hamizi, a computer science graduate, is at the cutting edge of a new wave of violence against gay men in Iraq. Made up of hardline extremists, Hamizi's group and others like it are believed to be responsible for the deaths of more than 130 gay Iraqi men since the beginning of the year alone.

So reports The Guardian.

Question is: what reputation does Abu Hamizi think Islam has build up over the centuries? Surely he and the fellow members of his hate group must at some point realize that while Islam claims to be a 'religion of peace' his actions represent the kind of barbarism that gave Islam the nickname 'religion of the sword.'

Islamism has no place in modern, civilized society.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23646/islamic-barbarians/feed 0