Muslim resident of Norway convicted of blasphemy in Iraq

Did you know that blasphemy could be punished by imprisonment in brave new democratic Iraq? Meanwhile, it is good that he has been granted asylum in Norway, but what will Norway do if the EU decides to comply with the new UN resolution condemning "defamation of religions"? Then where will people like Halabjee go? Probably to the U.S. -- at least until President Hillary Clinton toughens the "hate speech" laws. And then he will have nowhere to go at all.

"Norway resident convicted of blasphemy," from Aftenposten (thanks to all who sent this in):

A Kurdish author with asylum in Norway was sentenced in absentia in Iraq last month to six months imprisonment for blasphemy.
Two years ago author Mariwan Halabjaee wrote "Sex, sharia and women in the history of Islam". Here he wrote that the prophet Mohammed had 19 wives, married a nine-year-old when he was aged 54 and that he took part in murder and rape. Last month a court in Halabja convicted him of blasphemy in absentia.

On what grounds? All that can be readily established from early texts written by pious Muslims, as I show in my book The Truth About Muhammad.

Halabjaee has lived in hiding in Norway for one and a half years. The sentence states that he should be arrested upon his return to north Iraq but he has now been granted asylum in Norway, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports on its web site.
The writer has had 14 books published. Halabjaee says that he has received a series of death threats and that there is a fatwa saying he should be punished by death unless he asks forgiveness.

Halabjaee also believes Norway is naive about radical Islamist groups that he says authorities allow to develop without control on Norwegian soil.

"Norway has protected me against the terrorists and I hope to be able to play a role in this democratic system. But I am alone and feel imprisoned. I have little contact with people and have to move carefully. Even if I have lived here a year and a half no cultural or other organizations have contacted me," Halabjaee says.

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15 Comments

JihadHotline(360)326-6730 | January 9, 2008 10:22 AM

The Islamic Campaign Against Truth continues...

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Kevin | January 9, 2008 10:24 AM

Once again an author stated the truth about islam. Once again he/she is persecuted.

exsgtbrown | January 9, 2008 10:46 AM

"Two years ago author Mariwan Halabjaee wrote "Sex, sharia and women in the history of Islam". Here he wrote that the prophet Mohammed had 19 wives, married a nine-year-old when he was aged 54 and that he took part in murder and rape. Last month a court in Halabja convicted him of blasphemy in absentia.
"

...Muslims hate it when infidels know the truth about Islam...and they really hate it when other Muslims speak the truth about Islams glorious thug idol...

root_cause | January 9, 2008 11:40 AM

Is Halabjee really a Muslim still, or has he come to
his senses and passed beyond all that?

joeblough | January 9, 2008 12:27 PM

The jihaddis and caliphists do not recognize national borders.

No matter where you are, they figure they have a right to control you.

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I'll have to look for the exact quote, but I believe there was an interview, either with Hitler or one of the other leading Nazis in which he dismissed concern over questions like industry and business ownership and such, and asserted (something like) "we don't socialize industries, we socialize people".

That's the level of totalitarianism we're dealing with here.

shiva | January 9, 2008 12:30 PM

I am surprised that the Pakistanis have not cracked
down on Rashid Rani yet

Employing a range of media, Rana’s work reflects a spectrum of issues from popular culture to problems of gender and violence. Exploring the stereotyping of women, Rana in his Veil series looks at two extreme representations of women. From a distance, the image appears to be a group of veiled women. On closer inspection, it is a composite of hundreds of tiny hardcore porn photographs gleaned from the Internet. “I’m not making a statement here. The Internet is a major part of our lives these days and almost 70 percent of what you get on it is porn. It’s also about how men in western countries look at women from non-western or Islamic countries and how men in non-western countries look at western women ”.

Warning contains offensive images

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2008/01/rashid-rana-born-in-lahore-pakistan.html

CM | January 9, 2008 1:30 PM

It should perhaps be pointed out that the EU countries one and all voted against the OIC defamation of religion motion, which, as a General Assembly resolution, is merely a recommendation anyway.

Bosnia and Albania the two majority Muslim countries in continental Europe (the geographical space, not the political entity known as the EU), were absent from the vote.

Basically "the West" (N America plus Europe plus Australasia) voted against and Latin America and Asia were split between support and abstention (China and Russia backed the OIC, Japan and India abstained).

exsgtbrown | January 9, 2008 1:59 PM

"But I am alone and feel imprisoned."

...welcome to the world of the few Muslims who are peaceful and see the truth about Islam.....

tanstaafl | January 9, 2008 2:10 PM

Hopefully, Mariwan Halabjaee will not have to pay the price of Prometheus for bring light to Islam.

CharlesRC | January 9, 2008 2:41 PM

The allegedly "blasphemous" book is available online with the author's permission at:
Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam
http://charlesrcblog.googlepages.com/home

The site also contains information regarding the author, Mariwan Halabjaee,* "the Salman Rushdie of Iraqi-Kurdistan."

The book has also been published as a music video:
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix) music video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPnJ-FXTmg

* Mariwan Halabjaee (sp. Marywan / Halabjay, Halabjayee, Halabjaye, Halabjayi)

exsgtbrown | January 9, 2008 3:25 PM

"Halabjaee has lived in hiding in Norway for one and a half years. The sentence states that he should be arrested upon his return to north Iraq but he has now been granted asylum in Norway, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports on its web site."

...it is sad that he is granted asylum to escape the murderous Islamic thugs and he still has to hide....

....apparently these Islamic thugs carry more authority in Norway than does the Norweigian government....

....NOrway should ban Muslim Immigration now...

treehugger | January 9, 2008 3:38 PM

Our tax dollars at work.

Whoopee.

Alarmed Pig Farmer | January 9, 2008 3:49 PM

The Islamic Campaign Against Truth continues...

In Islam, Truth is a flexible concept. It's whatever the Moslem activists want it to be, from day to day, situation to situation.

They get away with this only becuase the press and academic communities let them. For their part, the reporters and professors have been profoundly retarded by the deconstructionist crowd.

Paolo | January 9, 2008 5:02 PM

Norway is not a member of the European Union.

Jinn out of the bottle | January 11, 2008 2:26 PM

How can I help the guy?

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