Iowa’s “rape the gay away” pastor gets his sentence reduced and visitation rights with his children.
Iowa pastor and youth counselor Brent Girouex, who claimed with a straight face that he was trying to “cure” teenage boys of their “homosexual urges” by having sex with them, has had his sentence reduced from 17 years in prison to sex offender treatment and probation.
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A controversial US pastor has been jailed after a court said his planned protest outside a mosque was likely to provoke violence …
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By Paul J. Richards, AFP News
A controversial US evangelical preacher oversaw the burning of a copy of the Koran in a small Florida church …
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It’s a discouraging sign of the times that a notoriety-craving Christian preacher with a pistol on his hip and intolerance in his heart can spark an international uproar by dissing another religion’s holy book. …
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Quran burning pastor: The politics of hate, bigotry must end
by Aziz Narejo, TX
The people, the civil society must stand up, call for and work for an end to the politics of hate, anger, reaction, bigotry and extremism. And to promote peace, tolerance and understanding.
The extremists are pulling everything down. We (mankind) will sink together if they are not stopped wherever they are and whatever faith they believe in – the Quran burning pastor, Fox, Glenn Beck, Zaid Hamid, Taliban, Qaeda, Shive Sena, rightists in JI, BJP, Jaish or whatever there name is … all are same breed …
Courtesy: Sindhi e-lists/ e-groups, September 9, 2010
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Actress Angelina Jolie on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of opposition to plans by a U.S. pastor to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, amid fears it would fan religious hatred.
The Quran-torching event on Saturday planned by Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a tiny, little-known church in Florida, is fueling growing fears about heightened Christian-Muslim tensions in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world.
Oscar-winning Jolie, who is visiting Pakistan to highlight the plight of millions of people devastated by the country’s worst-ever floods, said she would never support any such plans.
“Of course not. Of course not,” she told a news conference when asked if she supported Jones’ plans.
She said she had “hardly the words” to express her opposition to burning someone’s religious text. …
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