An update on this story. No tactic on Iran's part would be surprising. The prosecution of Joseph Nadarkhani is inherently unjust, and authorities have only become more desperate and deceitful as the case progressed. "False Reports on Iran Pastor's Retrial Worrisome," from CBN News, October 15 (thanks to Kenneth):
Misleading reports about Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani are continuing to spread, raising concern among supporters that the world will soon dismiss the severity of his case.
Nadarkhani has been imprisoned in Iran for two years on charges of apostasy. He's now facing the death penalty after refusing several times in court to recant his faith.
The Iranian media is reporting that a retrial has been set over concerns of how Nadarkhani's case was handled.
But the American Center for Law and Justice confirmed with Nadarkhani's lawyer that no retrial was ordered.
"What's worse is that the mainstream media has begun to run these [Iranian] reports as fact," Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ executive director, said.
The ACLJ, which has been following Nadarkhani's case from the beginning, explained that reports about a retrial mistakenly refer to a hearing that already occurred late last month.
The group said these are the facts thus far:
In June 2011, Nadarkhani's case was heard before the Iranian Supreme Court.
The justices sent the case back to the lower court saying, "If it can be proved that [Nadarkhani] was a practicing Muslim as an adult and has not repented, the execution will be carried out."
Sept. 25-28, a hearing took place in the lower court. Judges found that Nadarkhani was a Muslim because his parents were Muslims.
He was ordered to recant his faith or die [for a fourth time], to which Nadarkhani responds, "I cannot."
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, the pastor's lawyer, said these false reports prove that now is the best time to pressure Iran.
Dadkhah himself faces a nine year prison sentence for representing human rights cases like this.
The ACLJ recently sent a bipartisan letter signed by 89 members of Congress, urging the State Department to intervene in Nadarkhani's case.
The group also sent a letter to the United Nations.
So far, there's been no response from either agency.
"There is no compulsion in religion", ha-ha, oh dear me :-(
This is 2011 and backwardness rules supreme.
Had a "conversation" earlier this month on another web site and he claimed that I lied when I said Muslim forces made sex slaves and raped women from conquered territory. As you can see from this article bizarre sex schemes are part of the Muslim way of life. No wonder it is hard to get Muslim men to convert to Christianity. Islam is a "dirty" religion, with practices that appeal to a man's sex drive. Whereas Christian men are challenged to be "one woman men" no such command is found in Islam. It is time we exposed Islam for what it is, an old trap that appeals to men and rewards them with sex. This should not surprise us when we look at the overall teachings of Islam.
Islam was born as a lie.
Islam has existed for 1,400 years because of lies.
Islam shall die because truth will prevail.
Islam was born as a lie.
Islam has existed for 1,400 years because of lies.
Islam shall die because truth will prevail.
Pastor Nadarkhani, has become the subject of a world wide campaign, to be saved from the evil dictates of Shari'ah law.
My senses tell me that this good Pastor will not be executed by the state, however, a state orchestrated prison murder that could later be denied, does not go beyond the evil fanatisism of fundamentalist Islam.
Should this come to pass, the world will surely know, just how evil Islam really is.
"Islam is a "dirty" religion, with practices that appeal to a man's sex drive."
If you'll pardon me for disagreeing with you, Islam is not a sexual religion. It is an extremely sexually repressed culture. All the outer trappings, the pre-pubescent marriages, the multiple wives, the oppression and marginalization of women, are meant to cover over the extreme poverty of sensuality inherent in Islam.
The extremely sexually repressed males provide a potent pressure cooker, dissolving the civilized constraints of any decent society.
Criminal, low-life, and prisoners convert to Islam, not for its wild sexuality, but because it confirms their identity as losers.
So here is a blatant example, a case decided by Sharia law declaring that a man is a Muslim because his parents were Muslim (Is Obama considered Muslim by the Muslim world then?) and declaring he should be put to death because he is a Christian. The Achilles heal of the global jihad (arrogance) seems to think the global jihad conquest is so far in effect that such blatant enforcement of Sharia reported in the world media is no threat to the global conquest for Islam (enforced by Sharia). Will those liberal elitists and ignoramuses, who dismiss such injustice because it is not happening to them, finally become aware of the danger they enable?