No one is concerned about this. After all, no “Islamophobia” was committed. “BREAKING NEWS: Iran Sentences Church Leaders To Long Prison Terms (Update),” by Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, October 20, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)- An Iranian Islamic court has sentenced three leaders of the country’s largest evangelical house church movement to six years imprisonment each on charges linked to their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned Monday, October 20.
Pastor Behnam Irani, Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, and Deacon Silas Rabbani of the Church of Iran were sentenced Sunday, October 19, for “acting against national security” and forming “a group to overthrow the government”, a well-informed church official told BosNewsLife.
“They received this verdict under Section 498 of the Islamic Penal Code,” added Firouz Khandjani, a council member of the Church of Iran. The verdict was issued by Judge Asel Al-Hosseyn of what is known as ‘1st Branch of the Revolutionary Tribunal’ in Karaj city, he confirmed.
It meant many more years behind bars for Pastor Irani as he already serves a six-year sentence for his faith, Khandjani said. “He will have to serve 12 years in jail.”
HELD SEPARATELY
Irani and the two other Christians, who are being held separately in Ghezal Hesar Prison, initially faced a possible death sentence for ‘Mofsed-e-filarz’ (‘spreading corruption on earth’) and Moharebeh (‘warring against Allah’), but those charges were apparently dropped.
“It is possible that they just wanted to threaten with the death sentence to make a long-term prison term more acceptable to the international public,” Khandjani noticed. “However for Irani six more years in prison mean a death sentence as he is very ill,” he warned….
Sam says
I want to become a muslim. Can anyone show me where l can find the religion of peace?
Drakkar says
The only truly non violent and peaceful religion I’ve ever heard of is Jainism. Concert now and the insects will be overjoyed.
PAthena says
Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity are non-violent, peaceful religions.
steve c. says
So it seems something is happening in Iran, with these recent stories such as the acid-throwing? They are cracking down, on what? Start of another people’s uprising?
Joginder Singh says
And aided by their useful idiots the cult of islam expects the free civilised world to bend over backwards to accommodate the mindless followers of paedophile muhammad, If the mindless mohammadians cant accommodate us why should we accommodate them
Jay Boo says
It is not about Islam, it is just “the regime”
Ben Affleck will tell us.
mariam rove says
BA is another PC Hollywood type except he is also on Hashish. M
PAthena says
Note that the name Persia, the name for 3000 years, was changed in 1937 by the then-Shah, an ally of Adolph Hitler’s, to conform to Hitler’s promotion of the “Aryan Race.” (The Aryas were (are?) the largest subgroup in Persia. Why didn’t the Ayatollahs change the name Iran back to Persia?
What has happened to the Jews in Persia? In antiquity, when the Jews were suffering in the Babylonian captivity, Cyrus, the Shah of Persia defeated the Babylonians and allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem. He paid for the rebuilding to the Temple. This is in the Book of Ezra in the Bible, with the official decree of Cyrus.
Walter Sieruk says
This cruel and heinous persecution of those Christian leaders by the Islamic regime of Iran. This Islamic “republic” is coming down in those Christians is still more proof that the ayatollahs and mullahs along with the other Muslims who who have so much power in the Islamic tyranny are very much afraid the the Iranian people might have a chance to have some balance in the information they have access to. Whats even more important the Islamic clerics in power much be very scared that if the people of Iran start to hear the Bible taught they might actually start to compare and contrast the teaching and style of the Bible with the teachings and style of the Quran. The Muslim clerics in power fear that this happen the Iranian people might start to view the Bible as the superior of those two books. So that just could damage the power of this Islamic regime since the foundation of the tyranny is based in the Constitution which is based on the Quran . So the Muslims clerics in power in Iran will do everything they can, by hook or by crook, to keep the Iranian people, in ignorance, and likewise in the darkness of Islam and away from the light and truth of the Bible in order to strongly hold on to their power in this Islamic tyranny.
deja vu says
It is interesting to note that it is because of the hardliners’ persecution of Christians that the people are turning away from Islam and embracing Christ. More than half Iran’s population is under 35 (some say the figure is close to 70%) and untold thousands are leaving Islam each year.
No matter how much Muslim clerics plot and threaten to snuff out the Light of the World, they will never succeed. They don’t know it but even they are under the control of YHWH and He will only let them have their way until it suits His purposes and the harvest has been fully gathered in.
Today I read a plea from a believer in Turkmenistan who asks that we do not pray for an end to persecution, but that believers will be strengthened to withstand it for the greater glory of God and the advancement of His Kingdom.
pumbar says
I can think of a few church leaders here in the West that deserve long prison sentences. Maybe we could swap?
Rebecca says
A great idea! We could swap some Congregationalists, Unitarians, and Quakers for the Christians suffering in the Muslim countries. They could co-exist over there.
pumbar says
It could work. I’m putting forward Rowan Williams, Bishop McManus and Pope Francis as initial transferees.