"I have no doubt they wanted to kill me."
Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Iran: Tortured Christian Flees," from Compass Direct News, July 21:
ANKARA, July 21 (Compass Direct News) – Days after his release from a month of interrogations and severe torture under secret police custody, Iranian Christian Mohsen Namvar has fled across the border into Turkey with his family.Traveling by train, the badly beaten Christian arrived July 2 in eastern Turkey with his wife and son.
Namvar, 44, had been held incommunicado by a branch of Sepah (the Iranian Revolutionary Guards) from May 31 until June 26, when authorities told his family they were releasing him “temporarily.”
Although the secret police demanded $43,000 in bail, officers refused to issue a court receipt for the family’s cash payment.
At the time of his release, Namvar was experiencing fever, severe back pain, extremely high blood pressure, uncontrollable shaking of his limbs and recurring short-term memory loss.
“I have no doubt they wanted to kill me,” Namvar told Compass.
According to Namvar, who converted from Islam to Christianity as a teenager, his severe physical mistreatment stemmed from his refusal to give the police any names or information about other converts and house church groups in Iran....
Funny how such tales were rare in the Shah's time.
His dreaded secret police was nothing compared to the fanatics who serve as the mule-ahs' police these days. But the Iranians all wanted "change" 30 years ago.
Take note, Oprahma fans clamoring for "change", because you might just get it.
"Funny how such tales were rare in the Shah's time.
His dreaded secret police was nothing compared to the fanatics who serve as the mule-ahs' police these days."
The Shah, who was raised in Europe (he went to Le Rosey), was a most un-Muslim Muslim (it's easier to do in Iran among the educated classes, who have a pre-Islamic and non-Islamic past to appeal to, to identify with), during his rule protected non-Muslims -- Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Baha'i. They never had it better in Iran than under the Shah, and under his father, the founder of that two-man Pahlevi dynasty. In retrospect, despite the Shah's many defects, his vaingloriousness, his tolerance for corruption, his insufficiently clever and insufficiently ruthless response to Khomeini and the other Muslim fanatics, including the burners-down of the Rex Cinema, who showed their hand early on. Unfortunately for the Shah, the country he had counted on for support, and military assistance, the United States, was being run by idiots - one holier-than-thou idiot, Jimmy Carter, ably assisted by a tinpot machiavelli (consumed with envy for Henry Kissiner ever since their Harvard days), Zbigniew Brzezinski, and of course the inimitable conspiracy-theorist (the investigation of whose baseless charges by Congress cost American taxpayers millions), the so-called "Iran expert" Gary Sick, still plying his ludicrous trade at, unsurprisingly, Columbia University.
You move from Iran to Turkey?
Frying pan, fire?
tanstaafl
I'd say fire -> frying pan.
But while fleeing, one just gets the hell out of Iran to no matter where. Now that he's in Turkey, he should move to Armenia or Russia, and park there. Don't stay in Turkey, where that freedom is not guaranteed.
The lunatics in Iran make the Shah look good. And we can thank dhimmi Carter for the ascent of the Ayatollah Khomeni and America held hostage for 444 days! What misery and degradation that was. We are still paying for Carter's cowardliness.
You see, all Carter knew about was peanuts.
tanstaafl says,
I understand you are taking a swipe at Carter and his policies, but please remember that "peanuts" comprise a major food source for the USA and abroad.
I happen to be a Georgia farmer with acres of peanuts. From that point of view, Carter did a great job.
I don't need to remind anybody about the importance of peanuts until their breakfast, lunch or dinner is denied that staple.
Peanuts AINT peanuts.
I love peanuts. Pistaschios are good, too.
This article pisses me off-why can't he just stay in his homeland? Why are the Islamonazis so scared of anything different?
Mmmmmm.......peanuts. Chocolate covered.
True refugees such as this man and his family should be welcomed with open arms to North America. Take Christians in, send muslims out.