Verdict: Death
Autocratically repressive Iran is once again telling the world to stick its own values up its collective nostrum. Yousef Nadarkhani, the young Christian pastor who adopted Christianity at the age of 17 is Iran's business and not that of the world-at-large. Iran is, after all, an Islamic country, a Shia-Islamic nation for whom Christianity, Judaism, Baha'i, and Sunni or, Prophet forfend, Ismaili or Ahmadiyya - alien, and not quite Islamic.Pastor Nadarkhani's offence is a grave one, taken lightly by the outside world which considers it his right to practise whichever religion has meaning to him, but considered a capital offence, as he has been deemed an "apostate", a charge punishable by death. And death is to be his award for forsaking Islam, and conducting himself in a shameful manner by proselytizing among Muslims to bring them to Christianity.
Which is odd, is it not, since Islam heralds and credits both Judaism and Christianity for leading the way to Islam which it considers the perfected condition of both its predecessors combined? And since it holds Abraham, the father of monotheism and Judaism, along with Christ and Mary and Old Testament prophets to be divine harbingers of Islam, whose final messenger was the Prophet Mohammad.
The regime is adamant, it will brook no insulting interference in its divinely inspired affairs. The punishment handed down to Pastor Nadarkhani will stand; as the final, the unassailable, infallible verdict of the Iranian Supreme Court which bows to no public opinion, anywhere.
Labels: Human Rights, Iran, Islamism, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, October 16, 2011
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