Relax: Iran cracking down on genocidal Jew-hatred "underground" churches

"However, under Iranian law, evangelizing and converting Muslims to other religions is illegal. Apostasy - converting to another religion from Islam - is technically punishable by death, unless the convert renounces his religion and returns to Islam." How did the Islamic Republic come to misunderstand Islam so spectacularly? When will American "moderate" jet to Tehran to tell them that apostasy is not punishable by death and that the Christians are beloved "People of the Book"? Why do Sharia states seem to miss all the peace and tolerance of Islam that we keep hearing so much about? Why does no one ever ask these questions?

"Iran cracks down on underground 'illegal' churches," by Joanna Paraszczuk for the Jerusalem Post, October 15 (thanks to Vidkun):

Iranian media reports blame "Zionist propaganda" for targeting vulnerable Muslims, converting them to Christianity.
Iranian security forces in Shiraz dismantled a network of four underground 'house churches' on Sunday night, and arrested their leaders, according to reports in Iran's media.

A Monday report by the Persian-language service Fars News, which is close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), described the churches as a 'network of criminals' which exploited vulnerable people.

"Most people attracted to these networks come from weak and vulnerable segments of society, who have psychological, emotional and economic problems," the report said, echoing a recent warning by a prominent Qom cleric.

In June, Qom's Friday prayer Imam Hojatoleslam Seyed Mohammed Saeedi told the Organization of Islamic Propaganda that Iran's enemies targeted vulnerable Iranian families in order to establish underground 'house churches', according to Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News, which works to report violations of Christians' rights in Iran.

Monday's Fars News report blamed the growth in underground Christian houses of worship on the spread of 'Zionist propaganda' from enemies outside the Islamic Republic.

"It is interesting to note that this illegal network is affiliated to Zionist propaganda deployed from outside the country," the report said, although Fars did not specify how the Christian churches were linked to any Jewish or Israeli groups, or explain why it believed Jewish organizations would promote Christianity in Iran.

While Fars News did not report the number of arrests, UK-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said on Sunday that seven Christians had been arrested in the Shiraz raid, and were being held in the Shiraz Intelligence Office's notorious No. 100 detention center.

Sunday's arrests are the latest in a wave of detentions in Shiraz. In the past few weeks, Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents in Shiraz have arrested around 30 Christian converts and transferred them to the No. 100 detention center, according to Belgian-based Persian-language news site Gooya.

Iran's constitution grants protection to non-Muslims born into other religions, including Jews and Christians.

However, under Iranian law, evangelizing and converting Muslims to other religions is illegal. Apostasy - converting to another religion from Islam - is technically punishable by death, unless the convert renounces his religion and returns to Islam....

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miriam rove | October 15, 2012 1:20 PM | Reply

those jews!!! they are causing trouble every where!!!!
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Walter | October 15, 2012 1:53 PM | Reply

This is such an important subject that it needs to very much be repeated. The is that the mullahs who are in power in Iran along with their friends the imams have a lot to do the such extreme anti-Christian activity in Iran. These Islamic clerics of Iran keep speaking so many falsehoods and lies about Christians and Christian doctrine to the people in the mosque and madrassas that the people in those places of Islamic mind programing actually start to believe the many untruths about Christians and Christ teaching that these Muslim clerics say. So much so that result of this is much persecution of the Christians in that country.
Furthermore, the Bible explains about these types of false teaches as these mullahs and imams who speak terrible thing about Christian and Christianity. For in Second Peter 2:12 it reads They speak evil of thing they do not understand and will utterly perish in their corruption." [NKJV]

It also should be noted that in this Bible verse in context,as well as in John 3;16, the word "Perish" does not mean "Loss of being but loss of well being." As in going to ruin by ending up suffering in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible call hell.

CornHolio | October 15, 2012 2:53 PM | Reply

"Iranian media reports blame "Zionist propaganda" for targeting vulnerable Muslims, converting them to Christianity."
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Wow. Zionists are conspiring to convert Iranians to Christianity? Those sneaky Jews! They probably thought that since this makes no Earthly sense, they would avoid detection of their plot.

But not so fast, Jews! You weren't reckoning with the Muslim mind here, guys! These Mullahs weren't born yesterday, you know. Their intelligence is best described as unbelievable.

chowching | October 15, 2012 3:20 PM | Reply

Hidden behind the Iranian Ayatollahs, Mullahs, and Imams is the powerful money class. They run Iran and Islam is just a facade to subjugate the masses to obedience. Jews will soon return to Iran along with their doctors, lawyers and businessmen. The Iranian elite will be outbid and go bankrupt, but they realize a new golden era of Jewry is coming and is unstoppable.

Kepha replied to comment from CornHolio | October 15, 2012 6:31 PM | Reply

Well, there is indeed a Jewish plot to put the world under the rule of a Jewish king. It's called Christianity, and the real "Learned Elders of Zion" gave us the New Testament. And, it appears that not even the bigotry of the Iranian mollahs can stop it from spreading.

Buraq replied to comment from chowching | October 15, 2012 10:26 PM | Reply

You wrote: 'Hidden behind the Iranian Ayatollahs, Mullahs, and Imams is the powerful money class.'

Boy, you're stupid! It's the clergy who have all the money. Khamenei's son flies around in a private jet.

Clown!

gravenimage replied to comment from chowching | October 19, 2012 10:05 PM | Reply

"chowching" wrote:

More stupidity from "chowching".

For one thing, the idea that all the brutality of Shari'ah in Iran is—somehow—not really true Islam is total crap.

And then, the sly implication that Jews are all rich and so will outmaneuver Islam is more stupidity.

And both he and fellow Muslim troll "danny" have posited a mythical "golden age" of Jewish life in Persia under Shari'ah, which is nothing but a fairy tale.

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