'Religion Inspired Murders' Archive
September 11th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Current Affairs, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
[The human] moral sense licenses aggression against others as a way to prevent or punish immoral acts. That is fine ...
January 18th, 2010 / Current Affairs, Religion Inspired Murders /
The Old Man And The Cartoon
by J.P. Christiansen
Once upon a time,
in a country small, up north,
near close to sea and ...
November 9th, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Comes now Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, and contributing editor for Islamica magazine in Washington, to claim that religions don't inspire murder.
Clearly, they ...
June 2nd, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders, Society /
Frankly, I am disturbed by late-term abortions. As I wrote several years ago (previous article "The Question of Sentience"), I think it's entirely arbitrary that we draw the moral ...
February 24th, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
From the "elephant in the room" department comes this little item: As I'm sure you've all heard by now, a Muslim TV executive who had started a network to "counter ...
February 4th, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Iraqi woman had 80 women raped then recruited as suicide bombers
A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she ...
November 25th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Church Shooting May Be 'Honor Killing' ...
July 11th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Indonesian executed for killing 42 women Suradji was arrested in May 1997 following the discovery of a body in a field close to this house in Lubukpakan, a village ...
May 20th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel. ...
February 4th, 2008 / Humor, Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying.
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February 3rd, 2008 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
ODESSA, Texas (AP) - A man accused of killing his wife says he was trying to exorcise a demon from her when the devil entered his body and caused her ...
January 5th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
(CNN) -- A group calling itself the Partisans of Monotheism in Sudan claimed responsibility Friday for the shooting death of an American diplomat and his driver early New Year's Day.
"The ...
December 27th, 2007 / Religion Inspired Murders /
Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007. There are no words. The world has not known a braver woman.
December 15th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Turns Out the Believer Was the Killer After All
In February of 2006, I wrote about the strange case of the murder in Australia of Scotsman Rudy Boa (previous ...
December 13th, 2007 / Religion Inspired Murders /
Selma Djukic, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, called it a case of domestic abuse.
"This is a tragedy. This another woman that has succumbed to domestic violence ...
December 11th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Mary Sudnad, 10, grimaces as her hair is pulled into corn rows by Agnes, 11, but the scalp just above her forehead is bald and blistered. Mary tells her story ...
December 11th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
H/T Irreligion.org
Father Strangles 16-Year-Old Daughter for not Wearing Hijab
A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after ...
December 10th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Yahoo top stories listed the headline: Colo. church gunman 'hated Christians' (AP) but here is the actual story, and nowhere does it say anything about ...
December 10th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Canadian serial-killer Robert Pickton, convicted in the deaths of six drug-addicted prostitutes, said in letters published Monday he aimed to rid society of its "evil ways."
The two letters obtained by ...
November 5th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Emma Gough gave birth to twins last week. She lost a lot of blood in the process. A blood transfusion would have saved her life. But she said no. ...
October 16th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
HOGANAS, Sweden (CNN) -- Swedish artist Lars Vilks says all he's doing is taking a stand in the name of artistic expression. But because of that stand, on this afternoon ...
September 11th, 2007 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
On this sixth anniversary of the Islamic atrocity in New York City, I dedicate this article to the victims, for whom both religious morality and the ...
August 14th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
911 tapes show alarmed family in exorcism case
Ronald Marquez and his 19-year-old daughter believed they were communicating with God and deceased relatives before they performed what family members described ...
August 13th, 2007 / Film, Newswire, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders, Society /
ABUJA (Reuters) - An amateur video of a northern Nigerian film actress in a sex scene has caused a public outcry in the Muslim north, prompting a movie industry body ...
July 13th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
THE windowless room inside the girls' madrassa was charred, transformed from a seat of religious learning to an inferno by the suicide bomber who detonated his charge as Pakistani commandos ...