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'Religion Inspired Murders' Archive
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 ...
Iran says man stoned to death for adultery
Iran said on Tuesday that a man convicted of adultery had been stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time it has confirmed such an execution ...
Possible ‘Honor Killing’ Foiled
"The victim advised me that his fiancée's family was trying to kill him, drag him into a car and take him somewhere, where he believed he was going to be ...
I will kill Rushdie: Pak Punjab Assembly Speaker
Lahore, June 22: Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi has said that he will kill controversial writer Salman Rushdie if he comes across him. ...
Mother orders daughter to stab Jehovah’s Witness
VICTORVILLE — Afraid that Jehovah’s Witnesses were trying to “steal” her son, a local woman ordered her 15-year-old daughter to stab a 19-year-old Witness, officials said. Around ...
6 Islamic Men Charged in Plot to Attack Fort Dix
Authorities said there was no direct evidence connecting the men to any international terror organizations such as al-Qaida. But several of them said they were ready to kill and die ...
Teenage girl stoned to death for having boyfriend of the wrong religion
A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion. As a horrifying video of the stoning ...
Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man
KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan (AP) - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then ...
Murdered preacher’s wife goes on trial
Freeland talked about a financial motive for the shooting in his opening statement. He told the 12 women and four men on the jury that Mary Winkler had deposited several ...