Any Christian who speaks about Christianity could be charged with spreading “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam,” because what he would be saying wouldn’t correspond to the Islamic faith. This keeps Christians in Iran in a constant state of terror, which is the idea: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Iranian-Armenian pastor begins 10-year sentence for his ‘disturbing’ teachings,” Article 18, September 18, 2023:
As Iran’s president was flying to New York this morning, an Iranian-Armenian pastor was handing himself in to prison in Tehran to begin a 10-year sentence for engaging in “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”.
Anooshavan Avedian, who is 61 years old, was sentenced more than a year ago, but had not been summoned to serve his sentence until he was visited last week by two plainclothes officers from the Ministry of Intelligence.
This visit took place last Wednesday, the same day that another Iranian-Armenian pastor, Joseph Shahbazian, was released from Evin Prison.
That very same day, Anooshavan was told that the time had come for him to begin his own 10-year jail term.
Article18’s director, Mansour Borji, said the timing of Anooshavan’s summons showed that “the general policy of the Iranian government towards Christians has not changed”.
“Although we have seen a number of Christians released this year,” he said, “the fact that somebody has now gone to prison on the same charges or for the same activities for which others have been pardoned or released, or had their sentences reduced, shows the arbitrary nature of the judicial system in Iran.”…
bagsgroove says
The Iranians should be left in constant terror.
Walter Sieruk says
The arrest and imprisonment for ten long years of that Christian pastor for teaching Bible doctrines and value fits with the nature of that intolerant tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
For 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 Guards arrest so many Christians because those in power in the Islamic tyranny are ruthless and cruel.
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.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyranny of Iran has its entire foundation based on the Qu. ‘ran ,with its Sharia.
Therefore, for a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Qu ‘ran is very important since it instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So to understand that “holy book” of Islam. a person need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Qu ran . Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4.
Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Qu’ ran .
The Qu .ran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “But though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel onto you than which we have preached onto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if man preach any other gospel onto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [ K.J.V.]
Therefore, the Qu ‘ran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.
Fitna says
Islam lacks nobility, grace, nuance, resilience, tolerance. Could a god (and his religion) be so fragile it couldn’t endure any criticism or push back?
Not only Islam so easily hurt, it lashes out like a vicious monster…attacking everything around it for even the fear of being hurt or slighted.
It’s ‘punishments’ which firstly shouldn’t exist to punish acts that aren’t even crimes, are so ridiculously over the top/extreme, you’d think even sensible followers could see how brutally it deals with opposition and maybe to dial it down.
But then it’s a product of the desert and of a wild, hate-filled mentally ill warlord who hated his life and those around him.
At least other religions like Christianity have an ability to self-regulate and tone themselves down over time. This doesn’t seem to ever happen with Islam, though some reformers have sincerely tried.
The extremists are in charge and it seems they always will be. This evil beast that has harmed and killed so many millions of people needs to be destroyed.
The West needs to figure this out and deal with Islam as we dealt with Nazism…Islam will never tame itself, it has to be tamed by force and we don’t have time for that.
OLD GUY says
Islam the devils cult.
Paulette Harvey says
27 Christian’s were murdered by Islamic groups in Nigeria including 2 priests Leah Sharibu a Christian girl of 14 was made a slave for life another Christian Alice Ngaddah a mother of two also suffered the same fate both are in their 5th year of captivity, since May 2023 450 Christian’s have been murdered, when daesh invaded Iraq they captured 4 teenaged boys and told them to deny Christ each one was asked to say the words, when they refused one by one they were shot for refusing, why is this comment relevant because it shows that the fear of the risen Christ is deeply imbedded within the Islamic theology