Imagine the outcry if someone had been arrested anywhere for selling a Qur’an. But of course that does not happen. Yet the world will take little, if any, notice of this.
“A bookseller from Iran was arrested on charges of selling ‘Bible,’” Mohabat News, September 12, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Mohabat News: Reports from Iran indicate that a citizen from Bukan was arrested and imprisoned on charges of selling the Bible.
Mustafa Rahimi, the son of Ali, was sentenced to six months and one day of imprisonment by 101st Branch of the Bukan Public Revolutionary Court.
Sources close to the family of the citizen confirmed his arrest on charges of selling the Bible.
Mustafa Rahimi, who had previously been detained by the intelligence agency on June 11, 2019, was sentenced to a fine and imprisonment but was released on 200 million toman bail. However, informed sources say that he was summoned to detention a few days later and is held in the Bukan Central Prison.
Bukan is a Kurdish town in West Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran. Rahimi had a bookstore in National Bank alley, Bukan. The Islamic Republic of Iran has severely restricted access to books with Christian content, as well as the prohibition of publishing, copying, and selling these books with severe punishment….