Category: Jedi

The founder of the Jedi religion inspired by the Star Wars films was thrown out of a Tesco supermarket for wearing his distinctive brown hood.

Daniel Jones, 23, who has 500,000 followers worldwide, was told the hood flouted store rules and was ordered to remove it or leave the supermarket.

As a result Jones, who also goes by the Jedi name Morda Hehol, claims he has been ‘victimised over his beliefs’ and left ’emotionally humiliated’ by the supermarket in Bangor, North Wales.

But Tesco hit back in the spirit of the epic space saga and claimed that the three most well known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies – Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker – all appeared in public without their hoods.

Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.

One of the officers commented, “We do see ourselves as the good guys fighting crime, but it’s hardly in the same league as Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader is it?

Two Star Wars-loving brothers planning a Jedi church hope it will be much nearer than a galaxy far, far away.

Two self-styled Jedi Knights are petitioning the UN to recognize Jedi as a religion.

The Winnipeg Sun (Canada), May 14, 2003 http://canoe.ca/ By KEVIN ENGSTROM, STAFF REPORTER The Force runs deep within thousands of Canadians, census information reveals. “Jedi” is the religion of choice for 20,000 Canadians, according to 2001 census data released yesterday by Statistics Canada. About half of all Canadian Jedis live in B.C., a Statistics Canada official said yesterday, while Alberta and Ontario have 4,000 each. About 2,000 Jedi followers are scattered throughout the rest of the country, including Manitoba. The Jedi religion, taken as an off-shoot from the Star Wars movies, had previously made its presence felt in other countries.

AP, Aug. 27, 2002 http://www.cnn.com/ SYDNEY, Australia (AP) –May the Force be with you. Amen. More than 70,000 fans of the “Star Wars” movies have upset Australia’s statistics agency by identifying their religion as “Jedi” during last year’s national census. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday that 0.37 percent of the nation’s population of 19 million, or 70,509 people, had written “Jedi” or a related response to an optional question about their faith when the head count was taken last August. Jedi is a mystical faith followed by some of the central characters in the “Star Wars” films. The