=== Aum Shinrikyo
1. Don't forget Tokyo subway gas attack: survivors and bereaved families
2. Subway staff remember victims of 1995 AUM gassing

=== Scientology
3. Tom Cruise Ends another Affair
4. Update: Cruise Still With Scientology
5. Cruise Dumps Scientology - NOT!
6. [harassment has become so commonplace that it is no longer newsworthy]
7. A Thorn in the MPAA's Side

=== Buddhism
8. 'Vietnam Buddhist burns herself to death'
9. Vietnam sect leader allowed home, status unclear

=== Islam
10. Cows slaughtered over delay in Buddha statues destruction
11. Taliban Explains Buddha Demolition
12. Muslim destroyers reach for the heart of Jewish holy sites

=== Mormonism
13. Visiting Reporters Complain Venues Tour Turned Into a Pitch for Church, State
14. Mormons under pressure on drink

=== Hate Groups
15. More teens buying white power music
16. Speakers with anti-Semitic ties coming to B.C. rally
17. Klan Highway Sign Isn't Welcome, Say Potosi, Mo., Residents

=== House of Prayer (Atlanta)
18. Church disputes claims of abuse
19. DFCS to take 10 more kids from members of Atlanta church in wake of abuse probe

=== Other News
20. French Sect Members Tried for Baby-Killing
21. Ex-dean of BU chapel on leave for illness
22. Families seek help from dangers of cults
23. 'Volatile' Prophetic Writings Set to Stir Further Controversy (Rick
Joyner)

=== Noted
24. False Prophets in Poland
25. Christian ministers to embrace Rainbow
26. The Work, the FBI and a habit of silence (Opus Dei)

=== Books
27. Religion researcher's 40-year quest to tabulate every believer on earth


=== Hate Groups

15. More teens buying white power music
Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 19, 2001
http://www.suntimes.com/
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White supremacists now are using more than pamphlets and racist books to get their views across--they are increasingly turning to the music industry to spread their propaganda.

''Right now we have eight to 10 pages of white supremacist music groups that cover almost every genre,'' said Devin Burghart, the Chicago author of Soundtracks to the White Revolution. ''A few years back, there were only a handful.''

A coalition of 10 North Shore suburbs is so concerned about the trend that officials have asked Burghart to give them some ideas on how to stop white power music from creeping into their communities. He is scheduled to meet tonight with the group, which includes officials from Glencoe, Winnetka and Wilmette.

New Trier High School also has asked Burghart to speak to its students. It's especially sensitive to racism because of the 1999 shooting spree by Benjamin Smith, a North Shore resident and former New Trier student, who targeted minorities during a two-day trek through Illinois and Indiana.

And it appears that more and more kids are turning to white power music--a medium that could do more damage then other tools used by racist groups, Burghart said.
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16. Speakers with anti-Semitic ties coming to B.C. rally
Vancouver Sun (Canada), Mar. 20, 2001
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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A number of speakers whom critics say are anti-Semitic and support U.S.-style civilian militias will be in Port Coquitlam next weekend for a gathering of anti-tax and anti-government radicals.

The Freedom Fest 2001 gathering is expected to attract adherents of what the RCMP says is growing anti-government sentiment in Western Canada.

According to a secret RCMP memo, dated January, 2000 and released under Access to Information legislation, ''increasing militancy by members and associates of anti-tax and other anti-government groups in Western Canada has led to a pattern of criminal activity relating to harassment of, and confrontations with, police officers, judges and officials of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.''

Freedom Fest organizer Michael Felgner said speakers at the event have been chosen for their views on taxation and freedom from government control. He denied having knowledge of militia-style activity or of the speakers' anti-Semitic views.

But several of those speakers attended a similar anti-government conference at Vernon's Christian School gym last month that was headlined by U.S. anti-Semite Eustace Mullins.

The RCMP memo says the groups it is concerned about are linked to such U.S.-based groups as the Sovereign Citizen's Movement, ''based on a defunct right-wing extremist group, the Posse Comitatus.''

''The Posse Comitatus claimed there was an international Jewish conspiracy which controlled international finance,'' the memo said, adding that some in the U.S. movement are also ''involved in the racist right.

''There are several extreme anti-government groups active in Western Canada promoting Sovereign Citizen activities based on those of the Freemen and Posse Comitatus in the U.S.A., denying the legal authority of the federal and provincial governments in several areas, including the authority to levy taxes, or to require drivers of motor vehicles to be licenced.''

Mullins, a Virginia resident, has written a series of books in which he praises the Nazis, denies the Holocaust and describes Jews as ''furry scavengers'' and ''parasites.''

Felgner said Monday he thought Mullins was ''a wonderful speaker'' when he saw him in Vernon Feb. 17.

''If I could have got Eustace Mullins here I would have,'' said Felgner, who said he did not know of Mullins' writings against Jews. ''I really can't comment on his views with regard to Jews and all the rest of it. I have nothing to do with that in any way.''

But other speakers Felgner has invited to Port Coquitlam this weekend also make derogatory comments about Jewish people on their Web sites.
(...)

For Nisson Goldman, vice-chair of the regional branch of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the rhetoric is frighteningly familiar.

Goldman said Monday the same anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories were rampant in Alberta in the Social Credit Party in the 1930s and 1940s.
(...)

The similarities between violent U.S. groups and what is going on in Canada is alarming, Goldman said.

''We are importing into good old Canada some of the highly radical elements of the Comitatus Posse and some of the other really difficult groups who think it is fun to go out in the woods and carry sub-machine guns.''
(...)

Felgner said he is not pro-militia, but that some of the U.S. groups ''have a lot of parallels in regards to their legal research that they have done.

''So, on one hand, if they have valid information in regards to the legal research they have done, I would be very interested in that. The fact that they have amassed weapons or whatever, that has nothing to do with me and I have no knowledge of that,'' he said.

Asked about the Holocaust, Felgner said he believes it happened but doesn't think there is anything wrong with questioning it.

''I am only 38 years old. I wasn't there. The history books say that happened. Ultimately, depending on what frame of reference you are looking at, just because there is newsreel footage of certain things or just because the history books says something, that doesn't make it a fact,'' Felgner said. ''What is the problem with questioning things or events that have occurred in history?''

Goldman has a big problem with people questioning the Holocaust and scapegoating the Jewish community.
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17. Klan Highway Sign Isn't Welcome, Say Potosi, Mo., Residents
St. Louis Post - Dispatch, Mar. 18, 2001
http://beta.yellowbrix.com/
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Joann Rulo says most people in Potosi, Mo., won't stand for the Ku Klux Klan adopting a stretch of Missouri Highway 21 outside town. Cody Randall said he'd consider ripping the sign down himself.

''To me, it shows disrespect to the good black people of the community,'' Randall said while waiting in a High Street barber shop. ''I would be the first one to tell you I would take the sign down myself.''

A man from Willow Springs, Mo., is awaiting word from the Missouri Department of Transportation on his Adopt-A-Highway application covering a one-mile stretch of Highway 21. He is adopting it in the name of the white supremacist group.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Missouri couldn't block the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from taking part in the state's roadside beautification program.

In that case, a Klan member adopted a segment of Interstate 55 near Butler Hill Road -- despite the state's legal challenge based on the Klan's history of racial discrimination and violence.

The Klan members picked up orange safety vests and yellow plastic bags and took part in the program's training 13 months ago, but they have yet to pick up any trash.

St. Louis District Engineer Ed Hassinger sent applicant Michael Cuffley a letter giving him until Friday to declare his intent to take part in the cleanup effort.

Cuffley is no longer affiliated with the group, said Thomas Robb, national director for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He said the I- 55 adoption probably would go no further.

''I may be inaccurate, but I am making the assumption that they wouldn't participate in Missouri any longer,'' Robb said.

When the state posted two Adopt-A-Highway signs with the Klan's name on them along I-55, they were quickly torn down. There are no plans to replace them.
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Suggestion: rename any section of highway adopted by the KKK after a civil rights leaders and anti-hate activists.

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