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Religious cult starves ‘demonic’ toddler to death – because he wouldn’t say ‘Amen’ after meals

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

IT’S enough to make you blood boil: another story has just broken of extreme child abuse by demented Christians.
This latest horrific report concerns the death of two-year-old Javon Thompson, whose remains were found in a suitcase after he was starved to death by members of a religious cult - including his mother - because he [...]

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Twisted religious websites put the fear of God into kids

Sunday, June 15, 2008

CHRISTIANS are always banging on about bad stuff on the internet and TV and in the movies – stuff they fear will do lasting damaging to their offspring.
But do they ever pause to think about the enduring harm done to kids by ghoulish RELIGIOUS websites, many of which delight in terrifying their little darlings with [...]

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Muslim convert faces seven life sentences for torture and abuse

Friday, June 13, 2008

ANOTHER day, and yet another Muslim horror story.
A 55-year-old Californian polygamist has been convicted this week on charges of starving, imprisoning, torturing and abusing his two wives and many of his 19 children and stepchildren.
A Riverside County Superior Court jury found Mansa Musa Muhummed – Richard Boddie before he gave his life to Allah [...]

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Whoo-hoo! The end is nigh for hotel room Bibles

Thursday, June 5, 2008

AS someone who has frequently complained to hotel managers about Gideons Bibles in the rooms I have occupied – “remove it now, or I will clog up the bog with the thing” usually did the trick – I was delighted to learn today that the American Civil Liberties Union has warned a school district in [...]

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Islam claims yet another innocent victim

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police reported last Friday.
The incident serves to highlight once again the widespread abuse of children in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan and other parts of the world.
The police said that Muhammad Atif [...]

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