These converts are getting off easy: Shi’ite Islam, like Sunni Islam, prescribes the death penalty for apostasy:
Shaykh al-Kulayni narrates a sahíh (correct) hadith from `Ammãr as-Sãbãti who said: I heard (Imam) Abu `Abdullãh (as-Sãdiq) (a.s.) saying, “A Muslim from among the Muslims who renounces Islam and rejects the prophethood of Muhammad and considers him untrue, then verily his blood is lawful (mubãh) for anyone who hears that from him, his wife is to be separated from him the day he became murtad, his wealth will be divided among his heirs, and his wife will observe the `idda of a widow (i.e., four months). The Imam is obliged to kill him, and not ask him to seek forgiveness.” (Furu al-Kãfi, vol. 7, p. 257)
“Three Christian women arrested without charges to go on trial in Iran,” AsiaNews, July 1, 2023 (thanks to Tom):
Tehran (AsiaNews) – Three Iranian women converts to Christianity will appear in court tomorrow on unknown charges, this according to Article 18, an NGO dedicated to religious freedom in Iran and advocating on behalf of its religious minorities, especially Christians.
Arrested last month, the three women were held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin prison for 40 days. Indicting people without formal charges is not unusual in Iran, nor is taking Christians into custody only for meeting in private homes to pray.
Officers with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence arrested Shilan Oraminejad, Razieh (Maral) Kohzady and Zahra (Yalda) Heidary at their respective homes in the early morning on 9 May.
Claiming to have search warrants, agents seized personal effects, including mobile phones, laptops, books and pamphlets “without giving any explanation,” Mehr Ministries report.
The three Christian women were taken to an unknown location. After 40 days incommunicado, they were able to call their families to tell them that they were in Evin prison, but were denied, again without explanation, legal counsel.
After meeting the women, relatives said that “they were not in a good physical condition,” Hamid Hatami, president of Mehr Ministries, told Voice of America Farsi. Since then, Shilan and Zahra have been released on bail pending trial, while Maral remains in custody, he added….
Linde B. says
I just prayed for these ladies. +?+
Bryn Duffy says
Same. They are facing true evil. Lord save them and protect them and their families.
tim gallagher says
Justice Muslim style. Civilised, decent societies have genuine justice. In any society where islam has gained power, anyone who is not part of the Muslim mob will always be treated like crap. That is basic islam , straight out of the Koran, islam’s evil and hate-filled book of instructions about how life should be lived. islam keeps any society down in complete barbarity and primitiveness.
Keith O says
In this case Tim, the mullet heads are using their cult as a way of maintaining power and control much the same as any dictatorship worldwide.
So long as the cult exists, they will have the justification to do what they want, when they want.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, that’s it, Keith O. Muslims always whinge and whine about how they are being unfairly treated and victimised until they grab power and then they always treat anyone who is not part of their barbaric ideology appallingly. I don’t believe that islam deserves to be treated with respect and tolerance. Any tolerance is always one way Hopefully, in Iran, where people do seem to have had enough of the dictatorship of the mullahs, the regime there might even fall apart. What a disaster islam has been for the human race.
FYI says
It is difficult to leave islam{what with the DEATH PENALTY and all}but my goodness,it is impressive.
Ayatollah Khomeini once said that “there are no jokes in islam” but luckily for us infidels{“The worst of created beings”}there are.
So here is a lovely Iranian story…{it is islamically true so it couldn’t possibly be made up as it was a revealed in a remote cave with conveniently no witnesses through jibreel,a mysterious ‘angel’ who in islam is called the Enemy of the Jews [sahih bukhari vol4 book 6 no 3329….}
Sort of like the koran then which is said to be true}
A cafe in Tehran
{Esther is sitting out in the sun minding her own business without her Chador when Ali the shite Sh’ite of the brave and ever-vigilant Guidance Patrol,the religious police, passes along}
Ali:Hey why are you not wearing Chador?Who do you think you are luv?
Esther:It’s a hot day.Leave me alone.
Ali:It is written in the koran!
Esther Yes and it also written that the moon was split in two,the sun sets in a muddy pool which are scientifically preposterous,Besides WHY should an Iranian woman be forced to wear a chador when in the SAME koran allah clearly gets human reproductive Biology wrong?Ridiculous!As a post doc in Molecular Genetics trust me i KNOW the koran is at odds with scientific reality.
Ali;oh i see the Science and Reason argument beloved of infidels.Tell me this then with your ‘reason’:
if allah was OK with women walking around inciting lustful thoughts in devout musllm men then WHY did allah invent the chador?
Esther WHAAT?allah didn’t invent the chador.patriarchal men who like to control women did.
ali Why you not wear chador?Why you disrespect allah?{crying}
I will count to ten before I call police reinforcements..panj,do,cahar,haft…
Esther,,5..2…4..,7..?You can’t count?
ali you will .WEAR CHADOR BEETCH…oh what is wrong with Iranian women..they want to be like infidel women with their hair exposed{crying}say any chance you might accept a marriage proposal..i need a new wife.She refuses to wear chador too.But she is six years old what can you do?
Esther Go Away!
{This is an islamically true story,”true” in the sense that the koran is true so you must not question it as it is absolutely true.Honest}
Alena says
Hilarious
OLD GUY says
Somewhat surprised that these three women haven’t been gang raped back into following islam. Or is it only the teenage girls that works on?
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the subject of the persecution regarding the harassment and imprisonment and even torture of Christians of Iran further expose the intolerant brutal and murderous “mullah regime “ of Iran
First, it would be naive not to understand the those mullahs and ayatollahs didn’t have a hand in having their stooges , who are Islamic state police, the Revolutionary Guard s arrest so many Christians because those in power in the Islamic tyranny are ruthless and cruel.
Second, this is further proof that Islam is such a weak and fragile religion that the arrest of those few Christians was felt necessary by the ayatollah, mullah and imams of Iran. For those Muslim clerics are afraid that if the Iranian people even have a chance to examine and thus compare and contrast the Bible and the Quran the people of Iran might discover that the Bible of the super of those two books.
Since the foundation for the tyrannical regime of the Islamic “Republic” of Iran is based on the Quran, which is also the entire foundation for of Islam, the Muslim clerics fear that their power base might collapse. So the arrests and sentencing to death of Christians reveals extreme fear those Muslim clerics have of the Bible, For this also show that those Muslim clerics in power in that “mullahs regime” of Iran will use .the Islamic state police and their tools to stop Christians and keep the Iranian people in in ignorance of the Bible and in the darkness of Islam.
Third, those mullahs and ayatollahs and imams of Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.]
All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teachers who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.