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- Islamic hate group wants full sharia imposed in UK
- Bigamy trial of House of Yahweh cult leader Yisrayl Hawkins moved; sect puts Jesus in jumpsuit
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The investigation into the two deaths and numerous injuries that occurred during a James Arthur Ray "Spiritual Warrior" seminar at the Angel Valley Retreat near Sedona has turned from a death investigation into a homicide investigation, said Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh said.
Asked why the deaths have been classified as homicides and the investigation upgraded, Waugh said, "We believe there are indications that it was not accidental, and ... we feel that there should be some culpability on some individuals."
Cult leader and parricide suspect Ruben Ecleo Jr. snubbed the resumption of his seven-year controversial parricide case in Cebu, citing health reasons for his failure to show up in court on Wednesday.
Ecleo is charged for the brutal death of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo and has put up a P1 million bail for his temporary liberty, citing his worsening health condition as a reason.
Pastor Manuel Camacho, of the Worldwide Missionary Movement, was shot six times by one or more fighters of The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) outside his home on September 21 in the municipality of San Jose del Guaviare, Christians said.
Pastor Camacho, who in the last eight years led a church with his wife in Chopal village, south of San Jose del Guaviare, was murdered because of his preaching and evangelizing in the town and surrounding areas, according to rights investigators.
Radical Muslim group Islam4UK has launched a campaign to impose sharia law on Britain, starting with a rally in London, according to a report.
The hate group -- an offshoot of the banned Al-Mahajiroun extremist sect -- says "we have had enough of democracy and man-made law and the depravity of the British culture."
Tory MP Philip Davies replies, ""The simple solution is for these people to move to a country which already has sharia law.""
Meanwhile a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain said: "99.999 per cent of Muslims despise these people. This only serves to fuel racial tensions."
The bigamy trial of House of Yahweh leader Yisrayl Hawkins has been moved to Parker County, after 42nd District Judge John Weeks approved a change of venue today.
The cult recently mailed out a 33-page publication depicting Jesus and some of the apostles in the same orange jumpsuits worn by its leader.
In Indonesia, a series of attacks on followers of the Ahmadiyah sect by fanatical Muslims -- who consider the movement to be a cult of Islam -- continues to draw criticism.
Alfred C. Stepan, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University in New York, an expert in religion and democracy urging the government to exercise its authority when there are violations of human rights.
Yet another case of religious insanity...
A church leader in North Carolina is burning versions of the Bible he doesn't agree with.
Pastor Marc Grizzard of the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton is building a bonfire on Halloween to destroy Bibles that aren't the King James Version.
"What we're doing is we're burning books that are satanic. I believe the King James version is God's preserve, inspired, in erect, infallible word of God."
King James Only-ism is the aberrant belief that God isn't clever enough to address people in anything other than ancient English. [video]
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