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From the Pakistan Christian Post, with thanks to Dubaipet:
Iran. April 23. In mid-April the conservative Guardian Council of Iran once again rejected a Parliamentary bill on equal diyeh, or blood-price, for non-Muslim Iranian nationals. This effectively affirms that the life of a Muslim is worth more than that of a Christian or other non-Muslim in accordance with Islamic law (Shari'ah).Under Shari'ah diyeh is the price of a man's life valued in livestock. In accordance with Shari'ah the family and relatives of a murder victim in Iran can choose to claim diyeh from the murderer, or pardon them, instead of allowing the execution to go ahead. In the case of homicide the diyeh for an adult Muslim man in Iran is valued at 100 camels or 200 cows or 1000 sheep (in accordance with Shari'ah), which is each year set at a certain monetary value by the Judiciary, now at 180 million rials. However, under Shari'ah, the compensation for a non-Muslim man is usually set at a fraction of this value and for a Muslim woman compensation is similarly set at half that of a Muslim man. In Iran a non-Muslim man is worth only one-twelfth of that paid for a Muslim man.
In September 2002 an Iranian court set a significant new precedent when it granted the family of a murdered Christian the same compensation as that of a Muslim. In January 2003 the reformist Iranian Parliament submitted a bill that makes the diyeh value on the lives of Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians (Iran's recognised religious minorities) equal to that of Muslim men, according to the BBC. The draft law therefore clearly contradicts traditional Shari'ah and according to one Persian-language newspaper, Jomhouri-ye-Eslami, this is why the Guardian Council rejected the bill. (Under Iran's constitution all new legislation must be approved by the cleric-based conservative Guardian Council). The IRNA, Iran's official news agency, reports that the final decision as to whether the bill will be scrapped will be determined by the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei....
Today the concept of dhimmi is an historical phenomenon and does not exist as an official legal status in any Muslim state, yet much the same discrimination faces Christians today as it did centuries ago, especially in countries like Iran that have reimposed Shari'ah. For many Christians it is a de facto reality of living in a Muslim country that they are thought of and treated as second-class citizens. In virtually ever Muslim majority context around the world Christians face social discrimination on a daily basis. They are faced with prejudice and social exclusion. Examples include discrimination in employment, under-representation in politics, difficulty in obtaining permission to build churches and exclusion from the top jobs in the civil service or security forces.
Posted by Robert at November 4, 2004 10:28 AM
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Clearest example of Muslim racism there is. And Israel gets called an "apartheid state."
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at November 4, 2004 12:07 PM
Can you imagine the reaction of the international community is Canada tried to discriminate against muslims in this fashion. It certainly wouldn't be tolerated under the guise of religion, culture, or any other inane excuse, but muslims are special and the international community seems to accept their pathetic excuses for human rights violations. If only the liberal left was as intolerant of intolerance on the international stage as they are domestically.
Posted by: ferrethouse at November 4, 2004 2:24 PM
The consequence of an unequal blood price is that people who kill muslims will be less likely to actually get capital punishment and will more often be able to pay their way out of the chop block while those who kill christians and others will be more often executed. Does this make sense at all, even from a muslim perspective?
Posted by: TM Lutas at November 4, 2004 2:50 PM
I don't follow your logic Lutas. If it's "cheaper" to kill a Christian than a Muslim, surely it's the other way around = those who kill Muslims are more likely to be executed, because they can't pay the fine vs. those who kill Christians are more likely to get off scott free.
Posted by: Suzan at November 4, 2004 3:11 PM
Mmmm - I didn't know the mullahs valued people's lives at all...
Posted by: Mike at November 4, 2004 4:36 PM
"Iran: Christian life worth only a twelfth that of a Muslim"
I actually thought that to muslims christians are worthless. But then again christians do have worth to fundamentalist muslims becuase fundi's can rape and extort christians and get them to do all that advanced sophisticated work like science and technology that muslims religiously lobotomised brains are unable to handle. I guess muslims would want to provide some protection for their merchandise/slaves.
at November 4, 2004 7:41 PM
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Spot on. We're cash cows for parasitic muslims.
Dhimmis throughout the centuries have provided, through jizya, the financial means to wage jihad against other infidels. They in turn become dhimmis, pay their jizya and the jihad can spread even further... That's how they've always done it.
at November 5, 2004 4:00 AM
Suzan - The decision maker in this case seems to be the victim's family (probably the patriarch). Assuming outrage, honor, and financial need are distributed equally in these societies, christian families would be more likely to say kill him than take the comparative pittance offered by the killer. Sure, more people will be able to afford to pay the price but fewer will accept the blood money because it is 1/12th the muslim price. When the price of mercy drops, so will the supply. It's free market economics 101.
Posted by: TM Lutas at November 5, 2004 11:53 AM
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