
Today's issue of RNB QuickLinks brings you Satanic bikinis vs. full-body swimwear (yes, we're talking Islam, of course), atheists upset at being shunned by an interfaith service, religious freedom, hell, Scientology whistleblowers and BB King...

A devout
Muslim ordered two boys to flog themselves until their backs bled during a religious ceremony, a court has heard.
In a British legal first, Syed Mustafa Zaidi went on trial for child cruelty after allegedly making the pair flagellate themselves with a bladed whip, as part of a ritual that is centuries old.

Britain's youngest terrorist - a teenager from West Yorkshire - was behind bars today after a guide to death and explosives was found in the schoolboy's home.
Hammaad Munshi, just 16 and taking GCSEs when arrested, was part of a cell of cyber groomers that set out to
brainwash the vulnerable to kill "non-believers".

The pastor in whose Florida church the Todd Bentley circus started says Bentley kept him out of the loop for his protection.
The loop? Bentley, who claims to get visited by angels, take trips to heaven and talk with the Apostle Paul, recently filed for separation from his wife -- days before it was revealed that he was carrying on an "unhealthy relationship" with a female staff member.

When President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad launched Iran’s first domestically built telecommunications satellite into space on Sunday, he did so in the name of the last true Shia imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi.
The launch coincided with the end of festivities in Iran to mark the birthday of the imam, one of the holiest figures in Shia Islam, who is believed to have gone into hiding in the year 941 and will return to bring peace and justice to the world.
But this year’s festivities have proved unusually controversial because of claims that the imam is being exploited for commercial and political purposes.
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