Once again we see that non-Muslims are expected to conform to Islamic norms. No Jew would insist that non-Jews fast on Yom Kippur. No Christian would insist that non-Christians fast during Lent. But all too many Muslims take it for granted that during Ramadan, non-Muslims must conform to Ramadan fasting rules — or risk the ire of Sharia judges like this one.
“Christian sentenced by Iranian judge to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during Ramadan,” by Harriet Hernando, Daily Mail, July 23, 2014:
An Iranian judge sentenced a Christian man to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The barbaric punishment was carried out in public in a square in the city of Kermanshah.
Five other Muslim men were also flogged in public with 70 lashes for not fasting during Ramadan, the city’s deputy governor Ali Ashraf Karami said.
A spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, denounced the treatment as ‘savage’ and called on western countries to take action.
They said: ‘The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis-à-vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.
‘This will ultimately embolden the Iranian regime to continue its nuclear projects more than before.’
But earlier this year the UN blasted Iran for the persecution of Christians in a damning report laid bare to the world in March.
The detailed report found that Iran has continued to imprison Christians for their faith and designated house churches and evangelical Christians as ‘threats to national security.’
At least 49 Christians were among 307 religious minorities being held in Iranian jails as of January 2014, noted the UN, which also criticised the regime for its hostility to Jews, Baha’is, Zoroastrians and Dervish Muslims.
In its annual report on people imprisoned for their faith around the world, the Brussels-based organization Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) named Iran as one of five countries with the largest number of ‘freedom of religion or belief prisoners.’
There are an estimated 250,000 Christians in Iran’s 76 million strong population.
They all face torture, imprisonment or the death sentence under Sharia law for not observing Islamic religious festivals and dress codes.
Thousands of persecuted Christians have fled the country, which saw Hossein Soodmand hanged in 2008 for following the faith.
jihad3tracker says
Readers here who missed the piece on Islam as a gang religion — please search with that term here at JW to find it.
IMO, an absolutely brilliant way of getting “Religion of Peace” clueless family and friends to finally, maybe, cross fingers, understand why Muslims do what they do….
The tyrannical control reflected in this JW post above reminded me of that gang religion item.
Peter Buckley says
The fact is, the mullahs are REACTING desperately to the high number converting to Christianity:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/10/iranian-intelligence-agents-target-arrest-christian-converts/
This is happening in a large number of muslim countries. What the mullahs don’t (yet) understand is that Christianity often grows amid persecution:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/see-where-christian-church-growth-called-explosive/
Jan Fourowls says
The reason Christianity grows in times of persecution is that the comforting, joyous internal love sent by the Holy Spirit is so precious and powerfully transcendent of this world, an authentic Christian receiving the Holy Spirit’s dispensation counts no cost too high to keep loving Jesus. It’s wholly supernatural in an amazingly wonderful way that is not like anything else. (Source of opinion: Personal experience from having been saved out of the worldly target zone in the past; also reports from the Bible and from secular historians about the ineffable joy and hymn-singing of Christian martyrs in the couple of centuries before Constantine had his way to try to sabotage Christianity — when martyring Christians didn’t do it — through worldly imperial measures and “in this cross conquer” militarism that had nothing to do with Jesus Christ, really.
In writing this about having been blessed with seeming miracles of preservation in the past, I’m not special, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and any sincere Christian truly looks forward to being with God eternally beyond this world — but there are apparently errands God still has for me here. He has parts for all of us to play, I feel certain. As Jewish prophet Jeremiah wrote:
“The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart … Get yourself ready!” Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17.
My prayers with all the Christians being persecuted throughout the world by Islamic hostility and violence, and my prayers with the Jewish people being targeted by Hamas terrorists and seemingly abandoned by global leaders. Those of us who know and love God keep sending love and prayers, and believe that by the end we will all see how faithful He is.
islamisdeath says
Sentenced to having his lips burned with a cigarette! Obama’s buddies. How on earth did they even come up with that? Satans minions acting as satan demands.
Jan Fourowls says
Yep!
boakai ngombu says
what does this punishment accomplish? lips hopefully will heal, but what is fair about this punishment? justice is not found in the judge’s decision, unless the wonderful Muslim – who breaks the fast (whether in secret or not) – also has his/her lips burned
[oh … SHARIA wasn’t developed so as to bring equity (the Allah god of Islam can neither be fair nor make anyone righteous, such a foul standard is exhibits)]
make the Christian an example … bring on shame of scared lips for not following the ways of the slaves of Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts; nonsmoker) …
Donovan Nuera says
Ya know….the muslims always parrot the phrase that Allah is always so gosh darn “merciful” when they refer to him; do they even understand what “mercy” is??? As Inigo Montoya once remarked;”You keep using that word….I don’t think it means what you think it means.”.
I think it is time that somebody secretly drops a bucket of LSD in the Zumzum well in the courtyard at Mecca on the last day of the Hadj…… and then videotape the hilarity that ensues…(I don’t know why I have to think of these things that are so obvious….the CIA must be really lazy and unimaginative).
Fuel-air bomb over the main square in Tehran on a random Friday afternoon when they chant “Death to America”…??
Jeff says
We should all go to Dearborn and have pork rib bbq.
GeoffM says
Not uncommon.
In the UK Christian children forced to obey ramadan fasting
http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/uk-no-water-for-kafir-children-on-hottest-day-of-the-year-on-ramadan-as-not-to-offend-muslims/
Children, customers and Armed forces tricked into eat Halal meat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435198/Parents-protest-schools-Halal-lunch.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2622830/Millions-eating-halal-food-without-knowing-How-big-brand-shops-restaurants-sell-ritually-slaughtered-meat-dont-label-it.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656460/Soldiers-secretly-fed-halal-food-Ministry-Defence-admits-doesnt-label-meat-UK-overseas-bases.html
Our freedoms and liberties are lost by inches…..
Doreva says
In Canada where I live if someone burned someone else with a cigarette it would be considered sociopathic at best and most likely psychotic. In fact, isn’t it shown by people who study the behaviour of serial killers ( like Richard dahmer for instance) the the prelude to their psychotic behaviour was doing things like this to helpless animals and possibly even their human victims? Just sayin’……!
Bc says
Did not somebody say Iran was getting more liberal some time back?