Religious Insanity
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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.
Thursday June 19, 2008
Islam: The hate criminal was ordered last month when three high court judges upheld the radical Palestinian-Jordanian preacher’s appeal against deportation to Amman on the grounds that he was likely to face a terrorism trial based on evidence from witnesses who had been tortured.
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.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.’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.
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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