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The Family
"The family is a story of a self-described 'invisible organization' of Christian conservative activists dedicated to organizing political and business elites into linked small groups they call 'prayer cells' or invisible believing groups.' Members and associates of the Family, also known as the Fellowship, include prominent figures such as senators Sam Brownback, James Ihnofe, and John Ensign; representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, and Zach Wamp; former attorneys general John Ashcroft and Ed Meese; and many others."
Tags: Christian fundamentalist; Christian Right; government; Focus on the Family; Ivanwald; Arlington, Va.;
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The Enclave
David Kelly and Gary Cohn of the Los Angeles Times investigate the failure of public agencies to check the activities of a religious sect on the border of Utah and Arizona. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of Mormonism is the sect. Its members have engaged in polygamy, sexual abuse, spousal abuse and child abuse with no government intervention to curb these crimes.
Tags: Religious sect; sexual abuse; child abuse; lax law enforcement; Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; FLDS; Mormon offshoots
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Orthodox Bulldozer
Artists who use religious imagery in Russia as a form of satire are subject to having their work destroyed by Orthodox vandals. ARTnews found that the vandals were hailed and martyrs and often not even punished for their crimes.
Tags: art; Russia; Orthodox; religion; Moscow; exhibition; symbols; satire; neo-Nazi; nationalist; fundamentalist; Duma; anti Semite; Soviet; St. Petersburg
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The Jesus Landing Pad: Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
After obtaining memos from secret meetings between members of the White House and fundamentalist Christian leaders, the Village Voice discovered top Middle East aides who justified Israeli policy decisions because they coincided with Biblical prophesy. This investigation looks into "the role apocolyptic Christians play in sabotaging the Middle East peace process."
Tags: religion; Bush administration; Israeli policy; Gaza Strip; anti-prostelyzation laws; Pastor Robert Upton; Israel Embassy; Americans for a Safe Israel
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"Polygamy in Arizona"; "Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona,"
A fundamentalist Mormon Church in Arizona has erected a separate society in which polygamy is openly encouraged and enforced, in violation of the Constitution of Arizona and Utah. The church, whose members own most, if not all of the property in town, is also able to tap into the state's welfare system in order to support their large families. In many cases, the brides are underage and are stripped of all civil rights and forced to marry. All property and jobs are all controlled by one "prophet," as well as the self-erected political system of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints.
Tags: polygamy; Mormon Church; fundamentalism; Arizona; Utah; Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints.
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Price of Polygamy
This story investigates the town of Colorado City, on the border of Arizona and Utah. The town is a religious community that has shirked social norms to live according to standards of a fundamentalist sect of the Mormon Church. The citizens practice polygamy, and young women are forced into arranged marriages as teenagers. People who have escaped from Colorado City share horror stories about rape and abuse. Furthermore, because men in these families only legally marry one wife, the other women in the household are considered single mothers and therefore qualify for welfare. What results is millions of taxpayer dollars going to a community where abuse is common and basic human rights are denied.
Tags: human rights; family; polygamy; child abuse; domestic violence; Church of Latter Day Saints; welfare abuse
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Sheik Gilani
60 Minutes' Crile interviews Sheik Mubarak Gilani, a spiritual leader for a network of Islamic communities in the United States and "the Muslim cleric who Daniel Pearl died trying to interview." Crile asks the question that Pearl intended to ask - whether Gilani is connected to the alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid. Gilani says he does not know Reid; disapproves of some of what Osama bin Laden is doing; and that America is threatened by evil forces that control the minds of human beings.
Tags: Muslims; jihad; Khalid Khawaja; fundamentalists; Sept. 11; radical Islam; kidnapping; bombing; intelligence; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Al Qaeda Terrorist Dupes FBI, Army
The News & Observer tells the story of Ali Mohamed, a double agent, who served both "in the heart of the U.S. military at Fort Bragg and in the inner circle of Osama bin Laden's Islamic fundamentalist terrorists' network." Mohamed was among those arrested after the 1998 attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the story is used to exemplify how a terrorist can harness "the openness and modern technology of secular Western society, transforming them into weapons to be turned on America." Mohamed - who spent two decades working for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had three years of training and service with the U.S. Special Forces - acquired sensitive documents and passed them along to radical Muslims, the newspaper reports. Though the CIA, the FBI and the Defense Department knew all about Mohamed, they failed to stop him from playing a central role in the 1998 bombings.
Tags: FOIA requests; Defense Intelligence Agency; September 11; World Trade Center; Pentagon; military; State Department; CIA; classified information; Army
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As Pakistan, India Join U.S. in Fighting Terror, Kashmir Gets in Way
The Wall Street Journal looks at the potential impact that territorial conflicts between Pakistan and India can have on the "America's war on terrorism." The story reveals that even though the U.S.A. has Pakistani support for its global alliance against terrorism, Pakistan "remains a dangerous crucible for extremists processing a jihad on their own." A recent example, pointed out in the article, is an explosion in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a region in which both India and Pakistan vie for power. A major finding, based on interviews with American military analysts, is that Pakistani Kashmir fighters have been trained in camps in Afghanistan, established by Osama bin Laden. "This move cemented Pakistan's support for Mr. bin Laden's hosts, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of most of Afghanistan," the Journal reports.
Tags: terrorism; Muslims; Kashmir; nuclear weapons; separatism; intelligence; Colin Powell; guerillas
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Threat from Within
MSNBC reports on the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Since then, "...home-grown acts of terror, particularly those committed by factions of the radical right similar to those responsible for Oklahoma City, have not gone away - and have, if anything, grown dramatically in frequency."