Jannati says that non-Muslims "cannot be called human beings but are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption."
And you know what happens to those who roam the earth and engage in corruption: "The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land" (Qur'an 5:33).
But when a Zoroastrian lawmaker (Iran's parliament reserves a few seats for religious minorities) protested being characterized as an animal, it was he who was charged with slander!
From AKI via Regime Change Iran, with thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi:
Tehran, 28 Nov. (AKI) - Iranian parlamentarian Kurosh Niknam, a member of Iran's Zoroastrian religious minority has been summoned to appear before the country's Revolutionary Tribunal after being accused of spreading false news and showing lack of respect for the authorities. The charges stem from comments Niknam made to protest against derogatory remarks against non-Muslims uttered by a close aide to Iran's Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei.Non-Muslims "cannot be called human beings but are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption." said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati last week at a ceremony in north-eastern Iran to commemorate the 'martyrs' of the Revolutionary Guards and the war against Iraq (1980-88).
Nikam described the remarks as "an unprecedented slur against religious minorities."...
The Zoroastrian community in Iran is estimated to number some 22,000 - half the size of that in existence before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
This is the kind of thing that has happened to all the non-Muslim communities in the Muslim world, and explains why they are all so small.
Robert -- it's unfair of you to quote 5.33. Do what Bush does -- stick to 5.32. Pretend 5.33 and following does not exist. C'mon -- give peace a chance.
Applaud Kurosh Niknam's courage trying to defend
himself and other minorities against fanatical Mullahs. Hope the leftist Media including BBC are going to take up cudgels in his defence...then again PIGS MIGHT FLY!
"...Charged with spreading false news and showing 'lack of respect for the authorities'..." The Western MSM, no: Nveryone should be behind bars if such laws were applied.
The world better wake up. Sooner is better. The population of Iran has tripled, possibly quadrupled since the "Islamic revolution"...
There are hardly any Jews or Christians left in Iran, the Bahai have been chased away or killed off and the Zoroastrians are now objecting to being called " animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption."
Is this not reverse-reality? Is it not that this is humanity under siege and the Mohammedan majority have become animals?
Right thought,
Right speech,
Right deeds,
the Zoroastrian creed.
Mr. Niknam is right.
Perhaps you didnt hear, the new Iranian 'president' *guffaw* recently said he was surrounded by the light of Allah while making an address to the world.
This is really getting out of hand, these people need a mass psychotherapy session.
I guess this is another muslim who cannot read very well. One look at the terrorism being committed around the world would show him that it is almost all committed by these islamofacists nuts. It is too bad a mass psycotherapy session would not help these poor fools.As long as they keep reading the Quran and trying to kill every Jew and infidel they will continue to earn my wrath and intolerance for their jaded views!!
Iran's population has rocketed from 33 million in 1979 to 71 million today. That's frightening enough. But the projections for the future, based on present day birth rates are much scarier. By 2050, it is expected to have a population of more than 165 million, and a population of 363 or 373 million by 2100!! The Arab world is expected to show similar growth: from 300 million today to 600 million by 2030. This is what an ageing, for now, largely non-Muslim Europe will be up against, not to mention its own burgeoning Muslim population, expected to make up 50% of the population in France and 22% in Britain by 2050. In sharp contrast, over half of the non-Muslim population of several countries in Europe will be of post-menopausal age and declining through low birth rates and forced conversion. For future generations of European non-Muslims, the second half of this century promises grim times with Sharia law institutionalized, and us, or rather our descendants, some of which may already have been born, living the miserable lives that have become commonplace for the downtrodden in Islamic lands - and all through the PC multi-culti brigade which has spawned up over the last 30-40 years.
I forgot to mention that Europe's non-Muslim population will not only decline through lower birth rates and forced conversions, but, because it is ageing - higher death rates as well, before anyone makes that point. A demographic mother of all pincer movements is already under way.