Give It Up For Islam, Or Die

In Iran, and most other Muslim countries, you can freely practice any religion you want without repercussions, as long as it’s Islam.

Iranian Pastor Could Face Death

The former pastor of a network of Christian house churches in Iran has been told to exchange his faith for his life, according to news reports and human rights groups.

“We are dismayed over reports that the Iranian courts are requiring Youcef Nadarkhani to recant his Christian faith or face the death penalty for apostasy,” wrote U.S. Department of State Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland in a recent press statement.

Mr. Nadarkhani was arrested in his home city of Rasht on October 13, 2009 while attempting to register his church after protesting compulsory Islamic religious instruction in Iranian public schools. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a human rights group, reports that he was originally charged with protesting, however, the charges against the 32-year-old convert to Christianity were later changed to apostasy and evangelizing Muslims.

See also:
BREAKING NEWS: Iran’s Supreme Court “Confirms” Pastor’s Death Sentence
Death sentence for Christian convert in Iran
Unofficial Translation of Pastor Youcef Nadakhani’s Verdict
Iranian Man Faces Death over Religious Conversion
Yousef Nadarkhani to Be Executed for Faith
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s Death Sentence
Iran: A convert from Islam, Iranian pastor risks the death penalty
U.S. Condemns Iran For Threatening To Execute Pastor
Christian Pastor Facing Execution in Iran
Iran: Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Christian priest

Hey, how about that religion of peace and tolerance? What a sick joke. Can you just imagine the international uproar if courts in Christian countries started sentencing converts to Islam to death?

/evil is as evil does and no religion does evil like Islam, just read the daily news

Good News Or Game Playing?

If true, this would certainly be a step in the right direction. Then again, it’s Iran we’re talking about, so who knows?

Iran Suspends Stoning Sentence

Iranian authorities say a woman convicted of adultery will not be stoned to death for the crime, but she still faces murder charges in the death of her husband.

Iran’s state-run TV on Wednesday quoted a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry as saying Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s death sentence for adultery had been suspended, but that her sentencing for “complicity in murder” was still in progress.

The stoning sentence for Ashtiani has drawn international outcry from countries and human rights groups. On Tuesday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he was appalled by what he called a “barbaric” sentence.

In 2006, Ashtiani pleaded guilty to having a relationship with two men, following her husband’s death. She received 99 lashes as punishment. Several months later, a separate court prosecuted one of the two men on charges of killing her husband. The court also convicted Ashtiani of “adultery while being married” and sentenced her to death by stoning. She has denied the charges.

See also:
Son seeks proof Iranian stoning case ‘on hold’
Lawyer says Iran stoning woman ‘will not be executed’
Iran Lifts Sentence of Stoning for Woman
Iran suspends death by stoning case
Iran says woman’s stoning sentence stayed
Stoning sentence on hold, says Iranian foreign ministry
Iran says stoning sentenced suspended, under review
Why Iran suspended woman’s stoning sentence
Human Rights Campaigners Keep up the Fight for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
EU: Suspension of Iran stoning case not enough
Iranians Must Get Stoned

The bottom line is that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is still in an Iranian prison and still facing very serious charges.

/this sad saga is still far from over

Is China A Great Country Or What?

I’ll go with or what. Obama, he’ll go with the bow to Chinese President Hu Jintao.

China tries to sterilise 10,000 parents over one-child rule

Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they are detaining the relatives of those who resist.

About 1,300 people are being held in cramped conditions in towns across Puning county, in Guangdong Province, as officials try to put pressure on couples who have illegal children to come forward for sterilisation.

The 20-day campaign, which was launched on April 7, aims to complete 9,559 sterilisations in Puning, which, with a population of 2.24 million, is the most populous county in the province.

A doctor in Daba village said that his team was working flat out, beginning sterilisations every day at 8am and working straight through until 4am the following day.

Zhang Lizhao, 38, the father of two sons, aged 6 and 4, said that he rushed home late last night from buying loquats for his wholesale fruit business to undergo sterilisation after his elder brother was detained. His wife had already returned so that the brother would be freed.

Mr Zhang said: “This morning my wife called me and said they were forcing her to be sterilised today. She pleaded with the clinic to wait because she has her period. But they would not wait a single day. I called and begged them but they said no. So I have rushed back. I am satisfied because I have two sons.”

Thousands of others have refused to submit and officials are continuing to detain relatives, including elderly parents, to force them to submit to surgery. Those in detention are required to listen to lectures on the rules limiting the size of families.

See also:
Chinese city detains 1,300 in compulsory sterilisation drive
Chinese detained in sterilization campaign
Chinese state holds parents hostage in sterilisation drive
China city targets 10,000 in sterilisation drive: report
China Tries to Sterilize 10,000 Parents Over One-Child Rule
Campaign launched to sterilise 10,000 people in China, reports claim
City cracks down on couples

What barbarians! Where is the international outcry, where are the human rights groups?

/just remember, these Chinese communists are the same nice people that hold most of our national debt and flood our retail stores with all manner of cheap, often dangerous crap