Tag: religious discrimination

In today’s Religion News Briefs: A “guru” who brainwashed a family into parting with their fortune has been jailed.

Also: Tufts University curtails religious freedom in an effort to combat religious discrimination.

Plus: Rabid Muslim hate preacher Abu Qatada is free on bail after a UK court ruled he might not get a fair trial if deported to Jordan to face terrorism charges

Among today’s religion news briefs: A U.S. watchdog charged with investigating violations of religious liberty throughout the world is being sued for religious discrimination.

A dentist has been ordered to pay nearly $350k to settle allegations that he threatened to fire a dental assistant unless she attended a Scientology-related training session.

And seven people will stand trial in the death of a 3-year-old toddler during a botched exorcism.

Rules to prevent religious discrimination can now also be used to protect a belief in the BBC’s ethos of public service broadcasting, a tribunal has ruled.

The decision elevates the BBC’s core principle to a place in British law equivalent to Christianity.

Police officers at the London MET like to start their day with a serious fry-up consisting of sausage, bacon and black pudding.

But the Muslim cook refuses to touch bacon, and was placed on special unpaid leave for a year.

Now he is suing for ‘religious discrimination.’ Sigh…