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Islamic State jihadis imprisoned in Iran threaten to kill Christian in same prison

Aug 15, 2014 11:53 pm By Robert Spencer

Naghmeh Abedini“He’s already under threat because he is a convert to Christianity. Now we understand that ISIS members in the prison have said he is their number one target.” But in the U.S., Muslim spokesmen assure credulous non-Muslims that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, and that is the end of the matter — no one thinks, “Well, we should try to get Pastor Abedini out of prison anyway.”

“Militants threaten to kill U.S. pastor jailed in Iran: wife,” by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters, August 14, 2014 (thanks to Terry):

SALMON Idaho (Reuters) – The Idaho wife of an Iranian-American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran for nearly two years said on Thursday her husband has received death threats from Islamic State militants held in the same detention center.

Saeed Abedini, 34, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was sentenced to eight years in prison by an Iranian court last year for undermining national security by setting up home-based Christian churches in his native country from 2000 to 2005.

His wife, Naghmeh Abedini, of Boise, Idaho, said threats to his life from lack of healthcare and nutritious food were compounded this week when cell mates told him Sunni Muslim prisoners who have aligned themselves with the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, have targeted him for death. It was not clear if the detained militants were Iraqis or Iranians.

Abedini relayed the information to his mother, who visited him this week at Rajai Shahr prison, west of the Iranian capital of Tehran, the pastor’s wife told Reuters.

“He’s already under threat because he is a convert to Christianity. Now we understand that ISIS members in the prison have said he is their number one target,” she said.

The insurgent group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIL or ISIS, is an al Qaeda offshoot that shortened its name recently to Islamic State.

Fighting against the governments of Iraq and Syria, it wants to recreate a medieval-style caliphate from the Mediterranean to the Gulf and deems Shi’ite Muslims to be heretics deserving death.

The pastor is in the same ward but a separate section from the Islamic State adherents, his wife said, adding that he is afraid to leave his cell and join the general prison population in the yard for exercise.

“I fear for his life,” she said, adding that the couple’s young children have submitted a video to President Barack Obama pleading with him to bring their father safely home.

The American Center for Law and Justice, a Washington-based organization pushing for Abedini’s release, said in a statement that his health has deteriorated tied to internal injuries he suffered at the beginning of his incarceration.

U.S. State Department officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 16, 2014 at 2:10 am

    The ‘No god but Allah religion’ is such a fragile farce that it mush always seek out scapegoats to distract from its blatantly laughable premise for existence.

    Only the most willfully stupid people in the world actually believe Islam has anything at all to do with a hateful vindictive god that rules over the universe and that a lowlife immoral excuse for a human being named Muhammad was actually a prophet.

    99 % of all Muslims fully realize that both Islam and Muhammad are a pile of shit but end up getting caught in Islam’s trap anyway by their own vanity of not wanting to admit that their religion and time at prayers have all been in waste.
    These vain parasites spiral down a path of satanic self-deception in worship of nothing but their vanity into a bottomless pit of Islamic emptiness.
    Pride is Satan’s greatest weapon.

    • Uncle Vladdi says

      Aug 16, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      i.e: “Screw you! We MEANT to do that! Whee!”

      😉

  2. paddy says

    Aug 16, 2014 at 4:58 am

    My sympathies go out to the the family of Saeed. It’s understandable, though, why the Iranian regime responded the way it did. I mean, imagine a muslim establishing a mosque in the United States!

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 16, 2014 at 6:25 am

    “I fear for his life,” she said, adding that the couple’s young children have submitted a video to President Barack Obama pleading with him to bring their father safely home.

    Sheik Hussein’s response:

    http://conservativepapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-middle-finger.jpg

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 16, 2014 at 11:23 am

    The only reason the pastor Saeed is seen as a threat to the Islamic “Republic” on Iran is because the mullah and other Islamic clerics who have so much power in Iran seem the Christian message that he has a threat to the hold on power in that country . One way to explain this is that Ayatollah Khamenei along with the mullahs and other Muslim clerics are very much afraid of the Bible. In that they are scared that if the Iranian people hear the reading of the Bible along with its teachings ,the people of Iran just might start to compare and contrast tie reading and teaching of the Quran with that of the Bible and then come to the conclusion that the Bible is the superior of the two books. Therefore the mullahs and other might see their power hold fading because their power is based on Islam and the foundation of Islam is the Quran So the mullahs and other Muslim clerics will do everything they can to keep the people of Iran ignorant of the light of the Bible and to keep the Iranian people in the darkness of Islam. That is why the come down so hard on the Christian pastor. Even the thought that he might start to teach the Bible to some of the Iranian people to too frightening for the Mullahs and other Islamic clerics to let stand

  5. Uncle Vladdi says

    Aug 16, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    Sura 4:89 prescribes the death penalty for anyone leaving islam (apostacy).

    As for islam being “a religion:”

    The Qur’an clearly and specifically tells muslims the Bible is wrong and also that all Christians and Jews are infidel criminals who worship a false god, and who must therefore be extorted, enslaved, and murdered for their “crime” of not being muslims.

    So, if and when you consider islam to be a religion, you must agree with it’s main tenet: that God is a violent murderer who wants his muslim tribe to violently conquer the world by extorting, enslaving, and murdering all the non-muslim humans, right?

    Bottom line: If you decide to believe in “allah,” you have declared yourself a criminal, and so must be arrested, indicted, tried and convicted. Your confession of “faith” in your crime-god will help us to do so.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 17, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    One of the reason that the Muslims who are members of ISIS want to murder that Christian man who is now in prison in Iran is ,somewhat, explained in the Bible book of Proverbs. For Proverbs 29:10 teaches ” Bloodthirsty men hate a man of integrity and seek to kill the upright.” [N.I.V.]

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