'Religion Inspired Murders' Archive
9.11 Anniversary Filled With Moral Illusions
[The human] moral sense licenses aggression against others as a way to prevent or punish immoral acts. That is fine ...
Danish Poet in Praise of Westergaard
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 ...
Religion Unequivocally Inspires Murder
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 ...
Late-Term Abortion Can Never Justify Murder
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 ...
Beheading is Not “Domestic Violence”
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 ...
Rape, then Martyrdom: Gifts of Islam
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 ...
Church Shooting May Be ‘Honor Killing’
Church Shooting May Be 'Honor Killing' ...
Indonesian executed for killing 42 women
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 ...
Indian village proud after double ‘honor killing’
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. ...
A Medieval Theocracy With Rockets
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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Supernatural Fantasy Play Kills Woman
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 ...
Sudanese ‘Soldiers of Monotheism’ Murder U.S. Diplomat
(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 ...
Hope Extinguished
Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007. There are no words. The world has not known a braver woman.
Turns Out the Believer Was the Killer After All
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 ...
Islamic Social Services: Strangulation Not About Hijab
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 ...
Children are Targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt
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 ...
Father Strangles 16-Year-Old Daughter for not Wearing Hijab
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 ...
“Christian-Hating” Gunman was Raised ‘Deeply Religious’
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 ...
Canadian serial murderer wanted to rid world of ‘evil ways’
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 ...
Jehovah’s Witness Family Assists In Woman’s Suicide
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. ...
Hero
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 ...
The Rank Absurdity of the ‘Law of Karma’
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 ...
‘Communicating with God’ = Insanity
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 ...
Sex video causes outrage in Nigeria’s Muslim north
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 ...
Death the only escape for many Islamic extremists
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 ...