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Religious Insanity

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Friday September 25, 2009
Hate GroupsReligious Insanity:
Westboro Baptist Church A federal appeals court has thrown out a US$5 million ($7 million) verdict against fundamentalist Christian protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers” outside the Maryland funeral of a US Marine killed in Iraq.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church — a cult-like hate group — have deluded themselves into thinking they are Christians.

Thursday April 16, 2009
IslamReligious Insanity:
Islamic extremism A delusional French father has been charged with starving and beating his eight children in the belief that it would make them good Muslims.

Meanwhile, in Russia police have arrested 46-year-old Gafar Kerimov on charges that he hired a gunman to murder his 21-year-old daughter — because his Muslim friends disapproved of her choice of clothes.

Wednesday April 15, 2009
Hate GroupsIslamReligious Insanity:
Taleban The Taleban, whose followers believe they are adherents of the purest form of Islam, have murdered a young couple after accusing them of immoral acts.

The woman, Gul Pecha, 19, and the man, Abdul Aziz, 21, were executed by a Taleban firing squad in front of a crowd.

Friday February 27, 2009
Hate GroupsReligious Insanity:
Westboro Baptist Church The savages who operate the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — have announced on their website that they intent to picket the funerals of people killed in last Wednesday’s plane crash at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The cult is best known for its despicable practice of picketing the funerals of people its delusional followers object to.

Sunday February 8, 2009
FLDSPolygamy:
Warren Jeffs Even before he became a fugitive, polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs began visiting state capitals to “shake the dust off his feet in condemnation,” asking that each be punished with “the wrath of God,” Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Friday.

Speaking to a symposium at the S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City, Shurtleff said Jeffs visited all 48 contiguous states to perform the ordinance, which he detailed in “priesthood letters” and journals seized in April from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas.

Tuesday January 13, 2009
Creciendo en GraciaGrowing in GraceJose Luis De Jesus Miranda:
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who gained international notoriety by declaring himself first to be Jesus Christ, then the Antichrist, roundly lost his divorce court bid to protect his church from financial claims by his most recent ex-wife.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Roberto Pineiro essentially ruled that de Jesus’ Growing in Grace church was his personal business, rather than a religious nonprofit organization, and awarded Josefina de Jesus Torres the more than $2.2 million she sought in the divorce — the amount her lawyer deemed was half the assets of her ex-husband and his church.

Tuesday December 16, 2008
Religious Insanity:
religious insanity A religious tyrant and his cruel wife must stay behind bars after a judge refused them leave to appeal against their long prison sentences.

The Bradford, UK couple were locked up in May after a jury found the father sadistically tortured his sons while his fervently Christian wife turned a blind eye.

During the trial at Bradford Crown Court, the two boys told how they were tortured with safety pins, clothes pegs and scalpel blades.

Tuesday November 4, 2008
Islam:
Bilal Abdulla A suspected Islamic terrorist threatened to kill one of his flatmates for playing the guitar, a court heard today.

“He made reference to one of those grisly, very grisly videos that would come out of Iraq at that time.

Monday November 3, 2008
Hate Groups:
Westboro Baptist Church A federal appeals court panel said Friday that Missouri should be barred from enforcing a state law limiting protests near funerals until it can be determined if the law is constitutional.

That means the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian Church – can continue its despicable behavior for the time being.

The hate group claims God allows soldiers to be killed as punishment for the nation’s sins, including homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, idolatry and greed.

Tuesday October 28, 2008
IslamReligious Insanity:
Barbarians 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 13, 2008
Islam:
Muslim hate criminal Omar Brooks aka Abu Izzadeen A terror preacher convicted of raising funds for suicide bombers could be free by Christmas, the Sunday Mercury has learned.

An appeal by lawyers for Muslim cleric Abu Izzadeen, who was caged in April for a string of violent jihadi rants, casts doubt on crucial evidence filmed at a community centre in Small Heath, Birmingham, and at mosques in London.

Izzadeen, 32, whose real name is Omar Brooks, was convicted of terrorist fund-raising and inciting terrorism overseas after jurors at Kingston Crown Court were shown video clips of extremist speeches

Friday October 3, 2008
Al-ArqamReligious Insanity:
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 GroupsIslamReligious Insanity:
Muslim hate criminals 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
IslamReligious Insanity:
Mickey Mouse 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
IslamReligious Insanity:
Paul McCartney 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.

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