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Religion RSS FeedsCult leader Wayne Bent sencented to 10 years - The leader of a New Mexico cult has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The judge sentenced 67-year-old Wayne Bent to the maximum of 18 years on Tuesday, then suspended eight years. Bent was convicted of 1 count of criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor earlier this month. [video]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Conservative Australian MP wants ban on topless sunbathing to protect Muslims and Asians - Conservative MP Reverend Fred Nile has rejected allegations that prudishness is behind a bill he has prepared to ban nudity, including topless sunbathing, on the state's most popular beaches.
"Our beaches should be a place where no one is offended, whether it's their religious or cultural views," he said.
"If they've come from a Middle Eastern or Asian country where women never go topless - in fact they usually wear a lot of clothing - I think it's important to respect all the different cultures that make up Australia."... Focus on the Family pulls Glenn Beck interview over his Mormon faith - Colorado-based Focus on the Family has pulled an online interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck after concerns were raised about Beck's Mormon faith.
Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media and public relations for Focus on the Family Action, said that "differences in the Mormon faith and the historical evangelical faith are not inconsequential."... From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance - At last an official message to Muslim immigrants: if you want to live here, you must integrate.
If judged on the standard scale of caution in dealing with cultural clashes and Muslims' obligations to their new homes in Europe, the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor's chairperson, was exceptional.
The paper said: "The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance."
Government and politicians had too long failed to acknowledge the feelings of "loss and estrangement" felt by Dutch society facing parallel communities that disregard its language, laws and customs.... 2008 was a year of scrutiny for the Mormon Church - From the possibility of a Mormon in the White House to a stream of Latter-day Saints on reality television, from being attacked as belonging to a cult (or mistaken for a polygamous sect in Texas) to participating in California's bitter battle for traditional marriage, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would see their faith in the nation's mirror. To many, such scrutiny was unlike any they had seen in ... Four structures burned at House of Yahweh compound - A fire this afternoon burned four structures at the House of Yahweh compound. The sect's leader, self-proclaimed prophet Yisrayl Hawkins -- whose doomsday predictions have come and gone -- is scheduled to go on trial next year.Hawkins
is accused of having more than 20 wives and performing polygamous weddings.... Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book - Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, photocopied novel called ?The Taqwacores,? about imaginary punk rock Muslims in Buffalo. The novel is ?The Catcher in the Rye? for young Muslims, said Carl W. Ernst, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Springing from the imagination of Michael Muhammad Knight, it inspired disaffected young Muslims in the United States to form real Muslim punk bands and build their own subculture.... Cult leader Wayne Bent to be sentenced Tuesday - Cult leader Wayne Bent, convicted on sex abuse charges, will be sentenced tomorrow.The self-proclaimed Messiah could be sentenced to up to 18 years behind bars.He has said that he probably would not eat if he were locked up.Son Jeff Bent said he believed it was the ?end of the road for the world? because of his father?s conviction. He has refused to say what would happen to the sect if his father were imprisoned.... Hate group?s website uses Martin Luther King name to attack him - Type the name ?Martin Luther King? into the popular Google Internet search engine, and find a surprise: among the expected university and newspaper links, one site ? the third highest ranked link ? stands out.
It attacks the personal life of the slain civil rights leader and, by extension, the movement of nonviolence he championed. It rehashes allegations of plagiarism and adultery and accuses King of fraud, claiming he was not a ?legitimate reverend? or ?bonafide Ph.D.?
The site is run by a white supremacist group called Stormfront, described by one watchdog organization as the largest ?hate g... Lord?s Resistance Army said to have killed scores of people in Congo church - The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"They were cut with pangas (machetes) and hit with clubs but some luckily managed to escape. Our forces came to know about the killings while pursuing the LRA yesterday and the pursuit is on for the killers."... Copyright © 2009, LadyWeb. All Rights Reserved. |