An organization that reports on anti-Muslim attacks in the UK has lost government funding over concerns about the accuracy of its data.
An alleged Muslim terrorist in Canada wants to be judge according to the Quran, instead of Canada’s criminal code.
Plus: A Rastafarian inmate in Virginia has relented to the prison’s grooming policy — after 10 years in segregation.
In today’s issue: Congress delivers a blow to the Westboro ‘Baptist’ Hate group. Snoop Dogg ‘born again’ as a Rastafarian.
Plus: an important article in which author Debra Weyermann wonders why the FLDS cult is allowed to continue its abusive polygamist practices in Utah and Arizona.
And a ‘pastor’ says Kermit the Frog deserves the death penalty.
In Today’s RNB Roundup, • Inmate says jailers interfered with his Satanic religious practices. • Rastafarians tells an Italian judge their pound of marijuana was for religious purposes. • Quick, sell your TV: The PTL Club may soon be back on the screen • A look at Scandinavia’s kinder, gentler atheists.
Also: • Leonard Cohen returns to the road, for reasons practical and spiritual, • Transcendental Meditation taught in American schools. And more…
Italy’s highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges, lawyers in a recent case and news reports said Friday.
The Court of Cassation threw out the drug trafficking conviction of a 44-year-old Italian Rastafarian, ruling that the amount he possessed was in line with the heavy use that comes with his religious beliefs.