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Sect inspired 'leader of Sears Tower plot' By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 25/06/2006) The alleged ringleader of a terrorist cell that planned to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was an adherent of an obscure black Islamist sect that was first investigated by America's Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1950s, relatives said yesterday. According to an FBI indictment, Narseal Batiste, 32, wanted to build an "Islamic army" to "wage war against the United States government" and provide "material support to al-Qaeda". He and the six other accused lived in Miami. Narseal Batiste Relatives said that Batiste, described...

Why Polygamy Should Be Legalized Lately, with the FBI's decision to add polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs to the Most Wanted list, many shows (Anderson Cooper, America's Most Wanted...) have extensively reported on this particular sect. Polygamy in the United States is forbidden. That, believe it or not, is what causes all the problems and what helps arise dangerous sects like the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). How so? Well, Imagine you are a fundamentalist Mormon (NOT a member of that sect) and as such you believe that polygamy is right and you decide...

PLYMOUTH - Police charged a Plymouth woman with a hate crime after she allegedly jumped out of her car and repeatedly punched a 14-year-old girl, a member of the Twelve Tribes religious group, who was walking down the street with her mother and two siblings.

TONIGHT: Tuesday, March 22, 2004 10:00 p.m. Central Time (Milwaukee area)TITLE: "INSIDE THE LIVING CHURCH OF GOD" Inside the Living Church of God Tonight at live at 10:00,what really goes on inside The Living Church of God? A warning from former members, new tonight live at 10:00 on TODAY'S TMJ4.WTMJ TV investigative news reporter has done some in-depth investigation of the sect (mainline Christian denominations refer to it as a 'cult') which was the site, in a Brookfield, Wisconsin hotel, of a mass shooting by Living Church of God church member Terry Ratzmann earlier this month.Bump for those in...

The ultimate concern of this examination is to trace the history of Satanism from its emergence in the post World War Two era to the various threats this movement poses to society in the new millennium. In this regard a provisional definition of Satanism is necessary. Satanism may be defined as a belief system which seeks to venerate the Fallen Angel Lucifer either as a metaphor or as a metaphysical being. As will be demonstrated the fact that some Satanists see the Devil as merely a symbol and others as a real spiritual entity turns out to be irrelevant when...

BRUNSWICK -- Members of a religious sect who asked residents for opinions about their jailed leader's molestation case while marching in a city Christmas parade could face charges for lying on an application to participate in the event, a prosecutor says. United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors members who marched in Saturday's parade told the event organizer when they applied to participate that they were a Mason's group, officials said. Authorities are considering whether to charge the group members with submitting false information to a government agency, which is a felony, said Brunswick prosecutor Stephen Kelley. During the parade, Nuwaubians handed...

German authorities are investigating claims that members of an occult sect raped and murdered women and ate children in ritual ceremonies. According to a regional state prosecutor, several people are being investigated "for numerous offences of sexual abuse with an occult background" over the past 15 years. "We are aware of several perpetrators and witnesses who took part in black magic masses," a public prosecutor, Georg Jüngling, told the German television channel ZDF. Horst Roos, the head public prosecutor in Trier, said the inquiry was launched eight months ago, after several witnesses approached the police. "These proceedings are dealing with...

Prosecutors in South Korea have seized documents from a biotechnology company linked to a controversial sect which claims to have created the world's first cloned baby. After raiding the offices of BioFusion Tech Inc. in the southern city of Daegu, officials questioned members of staff to see whether they had taken part in the cloning project. Cloning is not illegal in South Korea, but prosecutors may be investigating whether staff have been carrying out medical research without a licence. Last week, scientists from Clonaid - a US-based firm linked to the Raelian sect - said that they had helped a...