It is so refreshing to see a mainstream media story that actually tells the truth about Islamic apostasy law and about how non-Muslims are victimized in Muslim countries. An update on the Youcef Nadarkhani case: "Pastor convicted for leaving Islam because 'everyone is a Muslim,'” by Jack Minor in the Greeley Gazette, November 9:
An Iranian pastor has been convicted and could face the death penalty for leaving the Islamic faith because, according to mainstream Islamic teaching, “everyone is born a Muslim.”Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has caught the attention of the world after being convicted for leaving the Islamic faith, even though he says he has never been a Muslim. Nardarkhani, who is facing a possible death sentence has been caught in a catch 22 regarding Muslim teaching.
While Nadarkhani tells the world that he was never a Muslim that statement is contrary to Muslim teaching. According to Islam, everyone is born a Muslim. Thus, Nadarkhani or for that matter, any person who becomes a Christian or follows any other religion has “left Islam.”
On page 28, in the introduction of a copy of the Qur’an, printed by Ansariyan Publications in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the translator, M.H. Shakir in the section “Islam and Muslims” states, “In fact, every child that is born is a Muslim. It is the parents who make him a Jew, Christian or Hindu.”
Based on this teaching, even if Nadarkhani had never visited a mosque a day in his life he is still considered a Muslim. Therefore, when he accepted Christ as his savior and became a Christian he left the Muslim faith whether he knew it or not.
The Gazette asked the Council on Arab Islamic Relations if Muslim teaching does in fact teach that everyone is born a Muslim. CAIR did not respond to our inquiries.
Pamela Geller, founder of Atlas Shrugs, and Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, have both confirmed that it is mainstream and standard Muslim theology that everyone is born a Muslim.
Iranian Pastor Hormoz Shariet with Iran Alive Ministries, says many people in the West do not understand how dire the plight of Christians in Iran is. “Islamic law states that it is criminal for a Muslim to convert to Christianity and it is in fact punishable by death,” Shariet continued, saying it is common for revolutionary Guards to arrest a Christian and not notify the family. “They can’t have a lawyer, not even a formal charge. Sometimes they even get killed without a formal charge.”
Nadarkhani is still awaiting sentencing for his “crime.” The Iranian government has been under intense pressure from international groups and governments to free Nadarkhani....
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While Nadarkhani tells the world that he was never a Muslim that statement is contrary to Muslim teaching. According to Islam, everyone is born a Muslim. Thus, Nadarkhani or for that matter, any person who becomes a Christian or follows any other religion has “left Islam.”
Think about it for a moment. Here is a human being, a pastor, who has rejected the Islam into which he was born, never even been to a mosque. But that is unacceptable to Islamists, so they consider him an 'apostate', punishable by death. To them, his becoming a Christian is a double blasphemy on Islam because he not only rejected their belief system, but actually took steps to leave it for another faith. Therefore, per Islamic belief, he is stripped of his humanity and pegged into a box totally defined by islamic tradition, and to counter this definition garners him a death penalty. Think about it.
Whether this whole sick ideology based on some quasi-Judeo-Christian religious tenets, a so-called Abrahamic Faith, or sprung of whole cloth from the sickened mind of a delusional, epileptic, acromegalic 7th century Beduin warlord, the perhaps mythical Mohammed, or manufactured of whole cloth by successive early Caliphs, the cult like descendants of this bizarre ideology have mentally and emotionally enslaved nearly a fifth of the planet in modern times. The population of those who are either born into it, or accepted this faith for whatever reason, now carry out the mental restrictions and real physical violence of their so-called religion to the point that it not only applies to them as members of this faith, but applies universally to all humanity. So in their sick terminology "everyone is a Muslim", and there is no point in arguing this theological command. The very idea that all people are not Muslims, unless they of their own free will choose to be, is totally outside the universe of their comprehension. What better definition of a Cult? Worse, they will suicidally die for the founder of their cult and its god-worshipped Allah, which seals it as a definition as a cult. And worse still, anyone who dares to question this cult, or their violent and oppressive actions, their murderous ways towards women and infidels, or apostates, they then attract the wrath of the culties who will try to kill them. How does this in any form whatsoever qualify Islam as a "religion"? It does not meet any of the criteria of religious beliefs, such as personal salvation or closeness to God, except as a sick cult worshipping a long dead founder, who himself worshipped a non-exiting Moon-god entity of Pagan Arabs of the time, his crescent god Allah. Then the whole system was launched with Jihad against all humanity to subdue or convert, or kill resisters who are not sold off as slaves, into this pernicious cult movement - which surprisingly survived for fourteen centuries! How in the hell did that happen? Are the people who fell victim to Islam so divested of their intelligence that they and their descendants could never resist? If so, it is too sick to contemplate! This is a Cult of Madness. The Big Sick of the megalomania madness of a desert warlord of the 7th century is still here to haunt us, both non-Muslims and those unfortunate to be born into the Cult.
How did such a megalomaniacal madness make it into the 21st century? We today are faced with fending off a 7th century barbaric cult that dares to declare that it is their philosophy (based on Judeo-Christian perversions), made aggressive with their ambitions of world conquest, that should rule over us and destroy all of our hard gained human freedoms and constitutional forms of government protecting those freedoms, to be presided over by their imbecile Sharia. It's nonsense, but how did we allow it to get to this? Does a primitive ideology spawned in 7th century Arabia, to run slaves and female captives as booty of conquest, deserve the slightest consideration by modern intelligent minds? Or is this so laughable that it should not even be given any consideration whatsoever? Why do we give them time of day? Is it because they threaten to kill us, or behead us, or blow up in our presence? Is this worthy of reasonable consideration? Or should they just be dismissed as totally mad, a sick cult that has absolutely no business in the 21st century? Why do we even talk about them? They are totally absurd! … But... then 9/11 happened.
We cannot to freeze like deer in the headlights because of that one sly, evil, underhanded and inhumane attack on us and our freedoms, using our superior technological advancement of air travel to kill all aboard the craft, and kill as many on the ground as possible by slamming into our most examplary buildings. Is this what we must now focus on for the rest of time, at the expense of abandoning all the wonderful achievements our civilization is capable of? Should we forsake our medical advancements, economic productivity advancements, advancements in science and technology, the beauty of the arts, advancements in feeding the world, saving the diversity of natural species, or cleaning up our atmosphere and oceans, or through education helping each human being reach their full potential in their lifetime, or the arts should be terminated, or the beauty of human bodily expression covered up for their barbaric insensibilities; are we to obey these primitive cultists? NO!!! Of course not, and we should not be mealy mouthed about it. We should come out straight forth and say, NO. To go and kill them in their desert mountain hideouts is only part of the battle. A much bigger battle looms ahead to swing their 7th century mind bending, and mind numbing, zombie population back into the 21st century. And we must do it now, not next century, but now. The fist step is to NOT to give in one iota of their idiotic demands. This 'being nice to Islam' must stop. They are too brain dead to appreciate any acts of recognition or kindness to them. Islam is not a protected species. So give them nothing.
Just say NO to them. NO to their aggressive demands degrading our superior constitutional laws and form of government, NO to their demands for special religious accommodations based on our tolerance of all people's freedom of belief, NO to their minarets, NO to their noisy mosques, NO to their hate-preaching imams, NO to their demands we restrict inquiry into their beliefs, NO to any restrictions of free expression which ridicule their ignorant primitiveness. Be assertive, say NO to any Islamic demands that are counter to our separation of religion and state, NO to their inhumane slaughter of animals, NO to their barbaric primitive treatment of women, NO to any demand of that cult to make our society over to their liking, while they threaten us on any level, loot and burn our cities, sponge off our welfare largess; NO to their thuggery. Say NO to their demands for land, for piracy, for taking hostages, for using women and children as sex slaves. It all must stop. And most important, say NO to their Sharia, on any level, not even for family court affairs. Their Sharia is counter to our laws protecting our human rights and dignity and sanctity of the individual, equal for all. Sharia is anti-freedom. If they choose to live here, then the answer is NO!!
Youcef Nadarkhani is but one man. But in his standing up to the mullahs, he is saying NO. That is the right response, the only one we all collectively as civilized human beings, who desire to preserve our culture for all future generations, must come to say: NO. We must all say without hesitation to Islamic encroachment in our world: NO! That is the only way to address this sick primitive ideology that imagines itself superior to our ways. NO. They are so far removed from reality that they cannot be given an iota of respect on any level. And if Muslims are listening, if their brains had not been totally drained of intelligence, then they too will understand. But for those who are offended… the answer is NO. The liberation Nadarkhani is offering them is for their own salvation. They too can climb out of the deep hole Islam dug for them over the past fourteen centuries, what buried their human souls. Climb out of the darkness into the light. They too can see the light of freedom. But it starts with the only answer Islam will understand, un-categorically, THE ANSWER IS NO!!!