Saturday, September 15, 2007

Thanks, God!

A rundown of the antics of God's dedicated supporters. Keep up the lord's work!

• Malaysia’s government ordered the Tamil-language newspaper Makkal Osai to cease publication for one month after it published a front-page picture of Jesus smoking a cigarette. Murphy Pakiam, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kuala Lampur, called the picture a “desecration.” “My entire staff are in tears,” the paper’s general manager, S.M. Periasamy, lamented. “They will lose a month of income.”

Al Qaeda Calls For Cartoonist's Murder

Updated: 15:29, Saturday September 15, 2007
The alleged head of al Qaeda in Iraq has offered a £50,000 bounty for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist for his depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.
Protest in Pakistan over latest cartoon
Protest in Pakistan over latest cartoon

Abu Omar al Baghdadi said his group would attack Swedish multinationals, such as Ericsson, Volvo and Ikea, unless the country apologised for Lars Vilks' drawing


Teen bride at trial describes grim wedding day

September 15, 2007

By Jennifer Dobner Associated Press

St. GEORGE, Utah — A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex.

"I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.


Young boys forced out of Mormon cult:

They are just young men (mostly young teenagers) who have become competition to the older men who want more (and usually much younger) wives. They are kicked out of their homes and run out of town. They often leave with just the shirts on their backs. Most have minimum education and few life-skills. But, the Prophet said that they must go away. So their parents cast them out like unwanted pets. Now, they are out on the street trying to fend for themselves. They are known as the "Lost Boys".

Read the tragic stories of their attempting to survive and to integrate into mainstream society. These articles are in chronological order.

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