Tag: Murder
Norway massacre’s links to right-wing extremism
By Joshua Norman July 23, 2011.
Print: CBS
Confessed perpetrator behind the recent Norway shootings claims, “Just like Jihadi warriors are the plum tree of the Ummah, we will be the plum tree for Europe and for Christianity,”.
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In the non-apologetic refrain of Hitchens: Once again, religion poisons everything (?).
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Pakistan’s blasphemy vigilantes kill exonerated man
By Nick Paton Walsh April 14, 2011.
Print: CNN
Vigilantes kill a man for blasphemy in Pakistan, even after he was acquitted by a local court.
Mike Huckabee’s fatally bad judgment
By Joe Conason December 2, 2009.
Print: Salon
Brutality by another Huck-pardoned criminal suggests the 2012 GOP hopeful listened more to pastors than prosecutors.
Pakistan soldiers ‘beat’ civilians in Facebook video
By Saeed Shah October 4, 2009.
Print: Telegraph
Pakistani soldiers have been seen beating civilian prisoners, including the parents of Taliban suspects, in a ten minute video posted on Facebook.
The airline bombers: Bang to rights
The Economist September 9, 2009.
Print: The Economist
On September 7, three British men — Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain — were convicted of conspiring in 2006 to bomb seven transatlantic passenger flights, using liquid explosives hidden in drinks bottles. Five others were tried with them. One, Umar Islam, was convicted of conspiracy to murder, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on three others. The fifth, Donald Stewart-Whyte, was cleared altogether.Yet only a day later, attention was diverted by events closer to home. Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group. In January another bomb was found near an army base in County Down; in March two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked a base; and in May bomb components were discovered in County Fermanagh. Also on September 8th Neil Lewington, a white supremacist, was jailed in England for planning a terrorism campaign against the “non-British”.
Pakistan: Who’s Attacking the Christians?
Omar Waraich / Gojra August 5, 2009.
Print: Time
A number of factors contribute to growing religious intolerance: a harsh blasphemy law and the increasing presence of radical Islamist organizations
Mom told police she killed newborn
Eva Ruth Moravec and Michelle Mondo July 27, 2009.
Print: San Antonio Express-News
A mother who used a steak knife to repeatedly stab, mutilate and decapitate her 4-week old baby says “the Devil” told her to do it.
Suspect Identified in Killing of Doctor
By JOE STUMPE and MONICA DAVEY June 1, 2009.
Print: The New York Times
Commenting on Dr. Tiller’s murder, Mr. Leach, an anti-abortion activist from Des Moines, said, “To call this a crime is too simplistic.” He added, “There is Christian scripture that would support this.”
Human body parts found in religious temple
Nick Evans April 3, 2009.
The Telegraph
The leader of a religious group has been arrested by police after human body parts were found in the cult’s temple.
