http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26288/french-satirical-newspaper-firebombed-after-prophet-mohammed-announcement http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26288/french-satirical-newspaper-firebombed-after-prophet-mohammed-announcement#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:19:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26288 In yet another Muslim attack on free speech the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb -- a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue.

The fiercely anti-clerical magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication “Sharia Hebdo”, was intended to "celebrate" the victory of Islamist party Ennhada in Tunisia's election.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26288/french-satirical-newspaper-firebombed-after-prophet-mohammed-announcement/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25965/muslim-extremists-burn-church-building-homes-in-nigeria http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25965/muslim-extremists-burn-church-building-homes-in-nigeria#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 07:22:10 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25965 Christians from a local Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) congregation in this Plateau state town have been displaced after Muslim extremists set their church building and some homes on fire last month.

Attacks on Christians in the town go back to 2001, when the only Christian to ever become a council chairperson, identified only as Nimfel, was murdered following an outbreak of violence between Muslims and Christians in Plateau State, central Nigeria.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25965/muslim-extremists-burn-church-building-homes-in-nigeria/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25916/muslim-terrorists-radicalised-in-london http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25916/muslim-terrorists-radicalised-in-london#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:46:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25916 The Finsbury Park mosque in north London served as a "haven" for Islamic extremists as the capital became a central hub in the worldwide movement of Muslim militants, US documents seen by WikiLeaks showed Monday.

The files, written by senior US military commanders at Guantanamo Bay, called the Finsbury Park mosque "an attack planning and propaganda production base" and named preachers Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza as key recruiters.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25916/muslim-terrorists-radicalised-in-london/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25797/sovereign-citizens http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25797/sovereign-citizens#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:12:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25797 Federal authorities are seeing an increase in the number of  foreclosed and unoccupied homes in metro Atlanta, Georgia being seized by members of a sect known as 'Sovereign Citizens' -- a movement of right-wing anarchists who reject all government power.

Members of the Sovereign movement, which the FBI identifies as a Domestic Terrrorism Organization, are found across the USA. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25797/sovereign-citizens/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25710/indonesian-clerics-terror-trial-begins http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25710/indonesian-clerics-terror-trial-begins#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:01:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25710 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25710/indonesian-clerics-terror-trial-begins/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25328/wife-of-convicted-muslim-terrorist-on-trial-in-germany http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25328/wife-of-convicted-muslim-terrorist-on-trial-in-germany#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25328 The wife of a German convert to Islam who was convicted of plotting a thwarted attack on U.S. targets in Germany went on trial herself Friday on charges of supporting terrorist organizations.

Filiz Gelowicz, 28, is accused of supporting the Islamic Jihad Union and the German Taliban Mujahideen by helping provide euro3,000 ($4,225) to fund terrorist training camps in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region between 2009 and 2010. She faces up to five years in prison.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25328/wife-of-convicted-muslim-terrorist-on-trial-in-germany/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25323/radical-muslim-hate-groups-website-publishes-mp-death-list http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25323/radical-muslim-hate-groups-website-publishes-mp-death-list#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:53:47 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25323 A website which influenced a young Muslim to stab an MP has posted dozens more MPs’ names on a 'death list’ with an exhortation to Muslims to follow her example.

It published a list of all the MPs who voted for the Iraq war together with an instruction to Muslims to try to kill them, saying: “We ask Allaah for her action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of Jihaad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages, and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25323/radical-muslim-hate-groups-website-publishes-mp-death-list/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25231/four-convicted-in-new-york-synagogue-bomb-plot http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25231/four-convicted-in-new-york-synagogue-bomb-plot#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:50:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25231 guilty of plotting to blow up Jewish targets in New York City and shoot military planes out of the sky, brushing aside defense claims that they were victims of entrapment by a paid FBI informant who befriended them at their mosque.

The four — alleged ringleader James Cromitie, David Williams IV, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen — were arrested in a nighttime raid in May 2009 after leaving cars they believed were laden with explosives outside a synagogue and a Jewish center in the Bronx.

Prosecutors called it a "chilling plot" and an example of the danger of home-grown terrorists. Defenders of the four, all Muslims from the working-class city of Newburgh, north of New York City, said they would not have been involved in a plot were it not for pressure put on them by the Pakistani-born informant.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25231/four-convicted-in-new-york-synagogue-bomb-plot/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25228/taliban-barbarians-threaten-netherlands http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25228/taliban-barbarians-threaten-netherlands#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:43:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25228 Taliban -- a hate group consisting of despicable barbarians who have deluded themselves into thinking they represent true Islam -- have warned of a possible terrorist attack against the Netherlands, according to a press report Monday, in the wake of the government's decision to form a minority government backed by the anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.

'If the Netherlands enforce its anti-Islamic policies, it will ensure that they will be the target of an attack by a jihadist group,' Taliban spokesman Sabiullah Mujahid told the de Volkskrant newspaper.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25228/taliban-barbarians-threaten-netherlands/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25207/nidal-malik-hasan-terrorism-court-hearing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25207/nidal-malik-hasan-terrorism-court-hearing#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:53:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25207 Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan returned Tuesday to Fort Hood in a wheelchair and combat fatigues for a pretrial hearing 11 months after he opened fire in a base processing center, killing 13 people and wounding 32 more.

At the end of the proceedings, which are expected to continue for weeks or even months, Colonel Pohl will decide whether Major Hasan will face a court-martial, and possibly the death penalty.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25207/nidal-malik-hasan-terrorism-court-hearing/feed 0