To hear leftists tell it, a Sharia state should be a paradise for religious minorities. Iran isn’t.
When I testified on Feb. 10 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about Sharia, the Democrats present were indignant at the idea that anyone would have any problem with Sharia at all. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) at one point airily acknowledged, without prompting, that Sharia was oppressive and that none of those present would want to live under it, but for the most part, he and his fellow leftists acted as if Sharia were entirely benign personal religious law that no one could possibly object to unless he were a racist bigot.
There is an easy way to settle this question. Sharia isn’t a mystery. There are Sharia states all over the world. One of the foremost is the Islamic Republic of Iran. If one wishes to understand fully the implications of the spread of Sharia in Europe and the U.S., it would be wise to study the Islamic Republic. On Tuesday, the dissident news outlet IranWire published a comprehensive report on the rights of various non-Muslim groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and it would behoove both those who are warning about Sharia in the U.S. and those who are waving away that warning as “hate” to study this report carefully.
The hate, in reality, is coming entirely from the rulers of the Islamic Republic. IranWire explains that “religious minorities in Iran face systematic barriers to equal human rights due to a state structure that is built and maintained to preserve a religious monopoly.” The ruling Twelve Shi’ite clerics, of course, are in control of that monopoly.
Officially recognized religious minorities, which include some sects of Christians, as well as Jews, and Zoroastrians, enjoy, according to the Iranian constitution, “limited freedoms in ‘rites and ceremonies,’ ‘personal affairs,’ and ‘religious education’ ‘within the limits of the law.’” IranWire adds that “some Sunni Muslim schools are also ‘accorded full respect.’” However, these freedoms come with severe restrictions.
In accord with Islamic law’s death penalty for leaving Islam, one notorious restriction is on converting to another faith. “On March 9,” IranWire reports, “Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran (presided over by Judge Iman Afshari), convicted two Tehrani Christian converts on charges of ‘promotional activities contrary to Islamic shariah’ and ‘membership in assemblies opposed to the country.’ Abbas Suri was sentenced to a total of 15 years’ prison, a 15-year ban on social activities, and a 330 million toman fine, in addition to a complementary sentence of prohibition on leaving the country, residing in Tehran or adjacent provinces, and membership in any organization for two years. Forty-three-year-old Mehran Shamlouie was sentenced to a total of 10 years and eight months of prison, a 15-year ban on social activities, and 250 million toman fine.”
These were not isolated instances. In another case, “Christian converts Mehdi Rahimi and Kia Rouhinia were convicted by Branch Three of the Revolutionary Court of Tabriz (Judge Hassan Fathnejad presiding) on May 23, receiving a sentence of ten years’ prison for ‘promoting perverse Christian Zionist beliefs’ and two years’ prison for ‘transporting prohibited goods (i.e. religious texts),’ in addition to a fifteen-year ban on social-legal activities and a fine amounting to one billion tomans plus ten times the value of religious texts they were found to have transported. Rahimi and Rohinia were not presented at their trial and the court failed to obtain defense statements from them.”
Bahais suffer similar repression: “On May 7, three Baha’is–Arshia Rouhani, Hamid Manzavi, and Arash Nabavi–commenced outstanding prison sentences for convictions of ‘propaganda in favor of groups opposed to the state,’ ‘propaganda against the government,’ and ‘membership in groups intending to disrupt national security’ at Dastgerd Prison. Rouhani and Manzavi’s original sentence of five years, and Nabavi’s of ten, were all reduced to two years at appeal.”
As you’d expect, Jews fare no better: “By June 26, following the Israel-Iran war, at least 20 Jews had been arrested in Tehran and Isfahan, while security agents had raided the houses and seized personal belongings of another eight Jews in Isfahan and Shiraz. Two Jewish religious leaders in Tehran and Shiraz were summoned and pressured by security authorities, as were a number of liturgists.”
And “following Israel’s attack on Iran, Iranian security authorities pressured the country’s official Jewish organization to send electronic messages to Jewish citizens which warned that contact with Jews outside the country was forbidden and that they would be held responsible for statements or social media material they circulated regarding the war. Another message requested that Jews participate in a June 25 gathering to show support for Supreme Leader Khamenei held at Tehran’s Abrishami Synagogue; the Jewish representative to parliament was in attendance.” Such requests are understood as being unsafe to refuse.
All this, and there is much more of it in the IranWire report, is Sharia in action. The more Sharia-adherent Muslims come to the U.S., the more Sharia we will see here, and it will manifest itself in the same ways. Muslims in the U.S. don’t have some different, benign version of Sharia. Democrats (and fact-resistant Republicans) should take note. But they won’t.
Noah Andeark says
Anybody else find it Hillaryarious that Israel and the US target iran during ramadamadingdong……the “holy month”?
I woke up this AM and got an immediate shot of giggle-snorts!
Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall over at CAIR? Comms director Dougie Hooper’s condom cap must be exploding!!! Exploding! Get it? KA-DA-BOOOOOM!
Tony says
Muslims are enemies of America and ALL Non-Muslims as taught in the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”
BASICALLY, ISLAM IS A MURDEROUS WAY OF LIFE, THE DAILY PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC LAW(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, DECEITFUL, MILITARISTIC, AND POLITICAL continuously against the USA Constitution and Western Laws to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims using MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISES with ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and with CONTINUOUS, TERROR PROPAGANDA from Islam’s Qur’an as evidenced by the continuous Muslim attacks to make Islam supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 3:28, 54; 4:89-91; 7:99; 8:30, 60; 9:5, 29,111; 16:106; 45:18; 47:4, etc.). Islam, a subversive enemy of Non-Muslims, teaches, incites, and promotes murder, lies, deceit, accusations, and slander against Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Qur’an.
Deceitful Allah affirms Non-Muslims as enemies of Allah while Muslims continuously undermine a society from within using their man-made Qur’an with lies, obfuscation, and deceit(Qur’an 2:225; 3:54; 7:99; 8:30; 60:4, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels[Non-Muslims] were your clear enemies.” Allah expects all Muslim believers to war against all non-Muslims until the Unbelievers convert to Islam or face Muslim violence. Corrupt Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Worthless Islam is a civilization-destroying, delusional, indoctrinating, cancerous fraud because there is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO Qur’an in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative claims; the Deceitful House of Islam is founded on propaganda, lies, intimidation, and deceit where Islam’s 1400-year traditions are based on fallacy and myth including a more than 300-year gap with no documented history. Hence, NEVER give money to Islamic Countries, Islamic Organizations, Mosques, Islamic Schools, etc. because your are funding your ultimate destruction. Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence.
Islam’s Muslims are to be Seditionist Terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Again, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its deceitful Muslims(Qur’an 4:89; 7:18; 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111; 11:119; 32:13; 47:4, etc.).
Demonic ALLAH claims MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than serpentine Allah in Islam’s Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Totalitarian Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Sharia Courts, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam, the House of Satan, islamizes the society with impunity(Qur’an 2:225; 5:14, 64; 60:4; 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). As taught from Islam’s Qur’an, Islam should be banned for its incitement, funding, and promotion of hybrid warfare, violence, terrorism, criminality, hatred, human trafficking, and discrimination against women, children, and Non-Muslims.
Hateful Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, right now the islamic republic is at war w/ most Iranians, since most Iranians now are non-muslims. I’ve been watching videos by Armin Navabi, Goldie Ghamari and Mahyar Tousi showing Iranians screaming abuse at the entire household of Muhammad – Muhammad himself, his daughter Fatima, her husband Ali (who shi’a demonstrators call “Heydar”), Hussein….
Once Iran becomes secular, there should be a severe crackdown on islam. Already, most mosques have shut down due to no attendance, but they need to do more
⮞ Stop observing Ramadan or any islamic holidays. Any practicing muslim should be forced to be private w/ their celebrations, just like non-muslims in the Gulf countries
⮞ Ban eid or ashura processions, and definitely the self-flagellation “celebrations”, particularly when it involves drawing the blood of kids
⮞ Ban all dawa activity in Iran, as well as all dawa groups – Hizb ul Tahrir,…. In this aspect, make no distinctions b/w shi’a and sunni
⮞ Any mosques that were built over other religious structures, be it Zoroastrian Fire Temples, churches, synagogues, stupas,…. demolish them and build the originals
⮞ Shut down all foreign muslim tourism to Mashhed and Qom. Most shi’a pilgrimage places are in Iraq anyway
⮞ All the mosques that have shut down due to low attendance – demolish them, or repurpose them for non-islamic activities
Don’t lose this opportunity. In history, there was one brief period under Hulegu Khan when Iran was not under islamic rule, and people suddenly had a freedom of religion. That changed when the Ilkhanate unfortunately also got islamized. Don’t allow that to happen this time – encourage mass apostasy, and then shut islam out of Iran completely
OLD GUY says
Taking down the Iranian regime is a good thing for both the people of Iran and the rest of the world. As a word to the American public please be diligent and aware that there are probably supporters of Khamenei who may attempt to retaliate against American citizens. If you see something say something.