And they're hoping to give them the death penalty, in accord with Muhammad's dictum: "If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
"Iran: Sixteen Christian converts arrested," from AKI, July 29 (thanks to Insubria):
Tehran, 29 July (AKI) - Sixteen Iranians who converted from Islam to Christianity were arrested on Tuesday in Malakshahr, on the outskirts of the central Iranian city of Isfahan.The six women, eight men and two adolescents who were arrested were assisting in a conversion ceremony and baptism of three new members of the church at a private house that had been transformed into an evangelical church.
The owners of the home, an elderly couple, were allegedly beaten up before they were locked up in an unmarked lorry.
In April, 10 Christian converts were arrested in Shiraz.
The official evangelical churches in Isfahan received orders not to allow any Muslims to attend their ceremonies and not to facilitate in any way the conversions.
Iranian law does not stipulate any punishment for those who convert from Islam to other faiths, even if the converts are subject to repression.
A few months ago, the government presented a bill which is currently being discussed in parliament, to include in the penal code the crime of "Ertedad" which is the act of abandoning the Muslim faith.
If the parliament does approve the law, the punishment for abandoning Islam will be the death penalty.
Baal needs blood.
Gedankenexperiment:
Rounding up 16 Western converts to Islam and, though they have said nothing, done nothing, perhaps don't even as yet quite understand the tenets of Islam (those engaged in Da'wa try to keep a lot of it from being known too early on, lest it scare away would-be "reverts"), charging them with apostasy and the death penalty.
No, not conceivable. Not even as a thought-experiment.
Comment from CAIR?
Ah, the clamoring of our brave press corpse, demanding answers....ANSWERS, always on the take, I mean, look out for fresh hot, blood boiling news....and a coveted interview with a terrorist slash tyrant. Photo Ops never missed.
It's at times like this that the silence of people like the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as the permanent blackout on Muslim persecution of Christians operated by the MSM (especially Al-Beeb) becomes sickening.
So, in addition to converting, did they get arrested for beheading a poor, poor Muslim?
Oh...the great cowards of islam have arrested 16 former muzzies who realized that they belonged to a death cult...& chose to leave it...God bless them.
The world's cowards..the EU & all that support them should bear witness to what these Proud individuals will pay for their alligence to Christianity.
We are witness to thier murder under the historically oppressive wing of islam.
Damn all those who defend them.
islam is terrorism.
The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.
mohammud was & still is a muzzie coward.
Wonder what the vermin at http://www.flyingimam.com/ would say about this? But he is more interested in supressing news like that to protect his fascist co-religionists.
The difference between Moslem "martyrs" and real Christian martyrs is striking. There's a good chance these people will be killed for belief in Christ. May God grant these new Christians the faith to boldly proclaim Him to their captors during this ordeal.
This is insane. It is insane not to judge Islam by the governments it institutes. Islam is a form of government, far more than it is a religion. It is not a religion because it does not have faith. Faith cannot be forced. The Soldier that shot the Koran had it right. The Western politicians who smile and hold hands with these deranged Muslim murderers are accomplices to crimes against humanity.
Islam isn't convincing.
Ah, but islam is convincing. Any sane, rational person is convinced that the koran (and the hadith/sira/sunna) is full of sh$t. And hate. And death. And ______. And ______. And ______.
You can fill in the rest of the blanks.
"If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
It's this slavish devotion to the Prophet Muhammad's every word, especially those which did not originate "from above", which makes Islam into something like a cult. It's not as though he deserved it.
When the prophet Muhammad (the dirty old man)
Tried a camel from Ali Hashim’s caravan,
He didn’t enjoy it as much as he’d hoped,
No matter which part of the poor beast he groped.
He already knew that with women (and men)
He’d never get Percy to stand up again;
And the decapitation of six hundred Jews
Was a turn on, but tiring before he was through.
Then he saw a young girl singing nursery rhymes,
And his loins stirred the way that they had in his prime.
Her name was Ayisha, just six summers old,
But he married her anyway so I am told.
(Don’t worry, he didn’t shag her till she was nine)
Iran 'will' make it death to apostate. They will most likely make it retroactive so they can apply it to certain Christian converts as an example.