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• Threats Aside, Maher Show 'Uneventful'
His new documentary "Religulous" skewers organized religion, and recently opened in movie theaters. "It contained specific threats made against Bill Maher," said Spain, who did not provide details and did not say whether the threats mentioned the movie
• Best bets: Oliver Stone's ‘W.’ hits theaters
The trailer presents the film as a dark comedy about a naughty young man, growing up in the shadow of his powerful pop, who manages to find religion and the right woman on his path to the presidency. (Opens Oct. 17) An all-star cast that includes ...
• Polygamous sect sues to regain control of trust
... Plan Trust and is dismantling a way of life for members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. "Utah, through its attorney general and the 3rd District Court, is interfering in obvious ways with the exercise of religion by ...
• Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul
We respect the Islamic religion and the Muslim clerics," he said. "We don't know under what religion's pretexts these terrorists work." The violence in Mosul occurs despite U.S.-Iraqi operations launched over the summer aimed at routing al-Qaida in ...
• Soldier punished in beating of Jewish trainee
Handman's father says he believes his son's religion was a factor in the attack because it followed too closely behind his son's harassment complaint to be coincidental. Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, agreed ...