European Union Denounces Religious Discrimination
On the 21st of February, the European Union Council issued a new statement which essentially reaffirmed their earlier November 2009 conclusions condemning acts of discrimination based on religious beliefs. Whilst the statement specifically targeted acts of violence against Christians and their places of worship, as well as toward Muslim Pilgrims, the statement clearly attempts to guide member states to take action to engender the respect of the religious beliefs of others. Clearly, though, it’s now up to these member states to actually put that into action, as more than just Christians have been the subject of much discrimination ...
Mark "Marty" Rathbun
MARK "MARTY" RATHBUN IN HIS OWN WORDS You may be aware of recent statements to the press from Mark Rathbun regarding his former religion and his tenure within Scientology's religious order known as The Sea Organization. Religious Freedom Watch presents the following information in rebuttal. One fact Rathbun has not been able to escape is his clear statement to the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 that totally refutes his present allegations. The statement also shows that Rathbun is merely echoing old, stale allegations he himself refuted more than a decade ago. Readers will likely recall this exchange from the October 25, ...
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher is an apostate who appears to have abandoned his religion due to an inability to live up to any kind of moral or ethical code. Fisher also supports the cyber hate group, Anonymous. Anonymous has been the subject of numerous investigations for engaging in hate crimes targeting the religion, its leaders, members and Churches through death and bomb threats and arson threats as well as engaging in serious cyber-crimes designed to disrupt and damage the Church. Most recently, an Anonymous member in New Jersey was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered ...
Behind the Facade of the "Anonymous" Hate Group
Introduction A grandmother in Texas, visited by her two biracial grandchildren, is plagued by abusive phone calls, online harassment and a racist flyer posted in her neighborhood. A 14-year old boy in Pasadena, California, who created a "no-cussing" club is deluged with hate e-mails and death threats - nearly 50,000 per day. A hip-hop website is hacked and defaced with Nazi symbols, fake headlines and pictures saturated with racial slurs. The common denominator in these incidents? "Script kiddies"1 and cyber bullies calling themselves "Anonymous," who get their kicks from ruining other people's lives. For ...
Anderson Cooper’s Last Gasp
In a desperate bid for ratings CNN’s Anderson Cooper tries an old gambit that may seem like a good idea but which in fact routinely fails to revitalize fading careers: an attack on Scientology. This week CNN posted its lowest ratings ever as a network. The numbers for Anderson Cooper 360 are now so far below its competitors that the CNN anchor is no longer scraping the bottom of the barrel – he’s it. Which forces us (along with most of America) to wonder why President of CNN Worldwide, Jim Walton, keeps Cooper on the payroll. Particularly when this week, in ...
Anti-Religious Extremists
On the 21st of February, the European Union Council issued a new statement which essentially reaffirmed their earlier November 2009 conclusions condemning acts of discrimination based on religious beliefs. Whilst the statement specifically targeted acts of violence against Christians and their places of worship, as well as toward Muslim Pilgrims, the statement clearly attempts to [...]
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Even though democratic, “free” countries like the United States guarantee that the government will not stand in the way of ones’ freedom to establish a religion and practice that religion as they see fit, there are still significant challenges to true religious freedom in practice – ones which the author would submit get overlooked by [...]
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“Many antisocial persons will freely confess to the most alarming crimes when forced to do so, but will have no faintest sense of responsibility for them.”—L. Ron Hubbard
Throughout the rather revealing new issue of Freedom Magazine, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder and Tom DeVocht have been laid bare—their crimes revealed, their malfeasance disclosed and their stories [...]
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LOS ANGELES — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a cyber attack on the Church of Scientology’s websites two years ago. Read more.
Jewish groups exert communal effort to get the U.S. Department of Education more deeply involved in probing allegations of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
By The Forward and Josh Nathan-Kazis
Are Jews an ethnic or a religious group?
This perennial question is now at the heart of a Jewish communal effort to get the U.S. Department of Education [...]