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Kazakhstan: Convert from Islam to Christianity gets 2 years prison for inciting religious hatred

Dec 31, 2015 12:27 pm By Robert Spencer

“Inciting religious hatred” is what the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has for years been pressuring the West to criminalize. It is clear from this case that the term is a catchall for anything Muslims don’t like and don’t want spoken.

Yklas-Kabduakasov

“Christian convert from Islam gets two years in prison for stirring religious hatred,” Asia News, December 30, 2015:

Astana (AsiaNews) – A Kazakh court yesterday sentenced Seventh-day Adventist Yklas Kabduakasov to two years’ imprisonment in a labour camp on specious charges of inciting religious hatred. In November, a lower court had given the 54-year-old father of eight a seven-year sentence of restricted freedom at home.

Forum 18 reported that Mr Kabduakasov was prosecuted on allegations of inciting religious hatred. This was done by talking to others about his faith. He and his fellow Church members reject the charges as baseless.

Local sources said that Kazakhstan’s secret police, the National Security Committee (KNB), tracked Kabduakasov’s movements and taped his discussions, especially on matters of faith. After a year, he was arrested on 14 August, and convicted on 9 November.

The KNB apparently rented a flat where four university students invited the accused for religious discussions, secretly taped the meetings and then used the evidence in the prosecution case.

A lower court sentenced him to seven years’ restricted freedom, and ordered the destruction of nine Christian books that had been confiscated at his house. The Prosecutor had sought seven years’ imprisonment in place of the restricted freedom sentence.

A court heard the appeal on 22 and 25 December, before imposing two years in a labour camp on 28 December.

According to some Kazakh Christians, who withheld their names, he was tried because he had left Islam for Christianity. In addition, he had spoken with Muslims about the Gospel, raising the possibility of proselytising.

Kabduakasov’s case is thus seen as a warning to anyone tempted to leave Islam for Christianity….

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  1. pdxnag says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Islam-light (moderate)? They let him live.

  2. nacazo says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    send a message to your congressmen.

  3. Peter Buckley says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    Even former liberal mainstream journalists are now more than happy to make comments about the Religion of Peace.

    Weekly columnist at Britain’s biggest newspaper, Rod Liddle, now has a weekly dig at Islam:

    “THE ghastly Islamic sultanate of Brunei banned Christmas.

    Religious police prowled the shopping malls ordering retailers to take down Christmas trees and locking up freelance Santas.

    The playing of Christmas songs was also banned – yes, even the lovely and enduring Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richard which will have come as a terrible blow to the population.

    The minority Christian community in this mosquito-ridden, oil-rich Sharia bastion of south-east Asia were told they could celebrate Christmas in the privacy of their own homes, but they mustn’t mention a word about it to their Muslim neighbours. Don’t give them a mince pie, then.

    Has there ever been a religion which feels so insecure in itself as Islam?”

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/suncolumnists/rodliddle/6830758/Rod-Liddle-Tory-MP-Oliver-Letwin-may-be-a-posh-idiot-but-he-did-have-a-point.html

    • billybob says

      Jan 1, 2016 at 12:11 am

      Islam reminds me of North Korea in that sense. They don’t allow the people to leave and they don’t want them to get any information about the outside world lest they get ideas that conflict with the party line.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jan 1, 2016 at 7:13 am

        Yep.

        That’s basically it.

        A totalitarian Death Cult.

  4. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    Mr. Kabduakasov is the Kazakh cousin of the late comedian
    http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/deaconsbench/files/2013/04/Jonathan-Winters1-272×300.jpg .
    And Mr. Kabduakasov is not a “Seventh-day Adventist” but a Seventh-Day Adventist. Not to get into a deistic discussion, but his coreligionists are Big-D-ists, unlike the Little-D-ists who call themselves Latter-day Saints.

  5. Mazo says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    Kazakhstan is an ex Soviet Central Asian Republic, run by a former Soviet Communist Party boss. It is secular and is harsh on ALL religion.

    Tajikistan, like other former Soviet republics, is run by an ex-Soviet Communist Party member. Tajikistan is harsh on religion, it cracks on down political Islam and even on ordinary Islam. They ban all Islamist organizations both domestic and foreign. The Tajik government has imposed bans against Hijabs, Burqas, beards, forbids children under 18 years old from going to Mosques, religious schools, or participating in religious activities and strictly controls ALL religion through the government. The Tajik government forbids any kind of religious activity outside of government control. They have destroyed thousands of unregistered Mosques and forced all Mosques to be under government surveillance and the government tells Imams want to preach in their sermons.

    The Tajik secular government is also harsh on foreign evangelical Protestant Christian missionaries and Jehovah’s Witnesses in Tajikistan. They effectively forbid proselytizing and crack down against them hard and ban them from building Churches or converting people. They don’t want Christians or Jehovah’s Witnesses in their country either. And then dumb islamophobes start whining about how the “Islamic” Tajik government is “persecuting Christians” when in reality they are secular and harsh against all religions.

    The same is true in other ex-Soviet Muslim majority republics. They are secular and crack down hard against all religious activities, Islamism, burqas, beards, and Islamist organizations, and also are harsh against foreign Christian missionaries. Its not Muslims persecuting Christians there.

    All of the former Soviet republics are harsh on Islamists like Hizb ut Tahrir and Tablighi Jamaat.

    One month this gets posted

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/kerry-urges-tajikistan-not-to-go-overboard-in-its-crackdown-on-islam

    Then the next month its totally forgotten that the Tajikistan government is harsh on all religions.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/three-muslim-countries-somalia-tajikistan-and-brunei-now-banning-christmas-celebrations

    Christianity is not a native religion to Central Asian ethnicities so secular Kazakhs, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Kyrgyz view it as a threat to indigenous culture.

    • miriamrove says

      Dec 31, 2015 at 2:57 pm

      As threat? Threat to what? So you are justifying their behavior? M

      • Mazo says

        Dec 31, 2015 at 3:28 pm

        Do those apostate house church Iranians have any culture? I heard even secular Shia Iranians complaining about how these Protestant evangelicals destroy the local cultures and they don’t want to allow them in Iran, these people are moderate and not anti-western and they respect Christians who are in their own countries.

        In protestant churches there is a stunning lack of art or any kind of appeal. It looks like Taliban designed architecture.

        Protestant bibles use newspaper computer style font and columns and are printed on tissue paper. They use vernacular style language for translations like primary school kids.

        • miriamrove says

          Dec 31, 2015 at 4:20 pm

          What are you talking about? People can talk to anyone about religion. So anyone who talks about their religion should be jailed?

          not anti-western and they respect Christians who are……

          How do you know this that they respect the minorities? Have you been to any Muslim countries? M

        • Mazo says

          Dec 31, 2015 at 5:46 pm

          I’m talking about secular Shia Iranian PEOPLE who live in western countries. They don’t like the Ayatollahs, they are not fanatics, they also don’t like missionaries and don’t want hordes of them in Iran.

        • Kepha says

          Dec 31, 2015 at 9:35 pm

          Mazo, just for the sake of argument, you had a daughter and (God forbid) she was homely. Wouldn’t you paint her up a bit to help attract a husband? If your neighbor’s daughter is beautiful, shouldn’t she be allowed to save money by buying less makeup? In the same way, the Qur’an has to be put in a fancy binding and calligraphy-style type; while the Bible is beautiful even when printed on the cheapest of paper and computer-style typeface.

          As for putting the Bible in the common language of the people, it’s how it’s always been. The Hebrew used for the Old Testament was the common language of the Israelites in those days; the Greek of the New Testament was the ordinary Greek of the marketplace and ordinary life, spread everywhere following the conquests of Alexander. As soon as it spread outwards, it was put into such ancient languages as Vulgar Latin, Coptic, Syriac, and Armenian.

          I prefer to read the English Bible in the Classical Early Modern English of the King James (authorized) Version, but that’s because I’m a fairly well-educated American who didn’t complain when made to read Shakespeare in High School English class. I think the translators of that version had a real ear for how their work would sound when read aloud, too. But I’m not going to argue with people who make an effort to accurately translate the Bible into current English.

          Also, what do you mean about being “cultured”? That I have to ease myself by squatting over a gold basin (one church father noted this about the pagan Romans of his day)?

          Jesus was not ashamed to associate with the poor and lowly, and identified with us to the point of being born into a pretty disfunctional family (one thing you appreciate when you had a lot of inspired men over millennia writing your Scriptures and giving historical context as well as precept in doing so, rather than one man in a decade or so) in order to bring us salvation. Maybe that’s why we aren’t bothered by producing an inexpensive edition of our Scriptures that relatively poor people might afford.

          In any case, the Yusef ‘Ali and N.J. Dawood translations of the Qur’an that I read weren’t exactly expensive, either, and are also printed on newsprint rather than India paper.

          And don’t tell me that Muslims respect the big, ancient, expensively made copies of the Scriptures, either. When Falastin militants occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, they used pages of priceless old Armenian, Syriac, Greek, and Arabic manuscripts for ‘istinja (and I hope the parchment scratched their miserable gang men well).

          It also looks, as I read Surah 80, that Muhammad frowned on a blind man (whom Jesus would’ve healed) and was all attention to the wealthy. In short, he sounds like the sort of wannabe religious snob whom Jesus’ brother James (Jacob) rebukes in his New Testament Epistle. Yes, perhaps Muhammad may have recognized he was wrong after the fact. But it all shows he’s the same sort of self-centered sinner who so sadly failed to recognize his need for the shed blood of the Messiah offered in the Gospel.

          This being said, I can’t help but note some of the Chinese brethren practicing their calligraphy by copying out passages of the Bible to hang in their homes (I confess I rather like the semi-calligraphic typefaces of older editions of the Guoyu Union and Easy Wenli Bibles myself), and I won’t ever fault them for it. And I guess there are Christians using an Arabic-based alphabet who might also practice calligraphy in a similar way. If there’s a good and wholesome note in anyone’s culture, we’ll preserve it, even as we throw the idols in the fire.

          BTW, for all: To paraphrase our great American President, if my sons reach middle age (as I sincerely hope), they’ll look something like Yklas Kabduakasov! (thanks to how my wife and I look)

    • Kepha says

      Dec 31, 2015 at 3:20 pm

      Christianity may not have been open in Central Asia since perhaps a few years after Temur Lenk, but Jesus said to make disciples (note: NOT headless corpses and wastelands) of all nations. Sooner or later, the Christian faith is going to break out and take root everywhere. It’s historical inevitability.

      In any case, back in Tang dyansty times, the Church of the East got to China by walking across a few Central Asian regions. And I know there are Chinese Christians who want to take the Gospel back to Jerusalem by the same route, only going the opposite direction.

      Had I a farm, I’d bet it that Kabduakasov never threatened anyone or even struck anyone while proselytizing. I’m not SDA, but I wish him well.

    • TH says

      Jan 1, 2016 at 7:19 am

      Christianity is not a native religion to anywhere, not even Israel, as most of the Jewish leaders at the time of the apostles rejected it, as St.Paul himself knew well. However, Christianity is THE religion which is in tune with humanity itself, as it proclaims Jesus Christ as true man and true God. It is perfect humanism as it brings about the flourishing of everything that is good in humanity by following the example of Jesus, who also taught us to be truly human. Therefore, it is not surprising that it has spread to the whole world. Neither is it political, as Jesus famously stated: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar, but to God the things that are God”s” . Real Christianity incarnates in every culture, but it also purifies the negative aspects of the culture, as it did in the Aztec culture which used to hack out the hearts of thousands of boys every year to placate its god.

    • Angemon says

      Jan 4, 2016 at 10:55 pm

      Mazo posted:

      “Christianity is not a native religion to Central Asian ethnicities so secular Kazakhs, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Kyrgyz view it as a threat to indigenous culture.”

      That’s your go-to fig leaf excuse for religious persecution in islamic majority countries, isn’t it? “Der derp, not native, therefore it’s OK to deny Christians human rights on the account of their religion”. .Well, guess what: islam isn’t native to Central Asia, and I bet that Christianity thrived in Kazakhstan long before arabs invented islam.

  6. ballotcode says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    What is that ambiguous catch-all in the Koran?
    Causing mischief?

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    Anjem Choudary described the Muslim view of free speech clearly:

    “Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people’s desires. . . . Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia (Islamic law) is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, “Whoever insults a Prophet kill him.””

    In other words, Islam has no concern for free speech WHATSOEVER. The only concern in Islam is for PERMITTED speech versus FORBIDDEN speech.

    Freedom of expression is IRRECONCILABLE with Islam…oil and water do not mix.

  8. Pig Jizya says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    I thought Kazakhastan was becoming more modern (according to Sasha Baron Cohen). Backward Islam shows its ugly colors again.

  9. mortimer says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    Obscurantism is opposition to critical thought. Islam orders its adherents to go not by reason, but by faith or by TAQLID (blind following)—the process of adopting views in absence of or in contradiction to evidence. Muslims go by faith because an alleged deity and his designated agents and texts say they should. If people get “knowledge” through faith—meaning, in the case of Muslims, through the words and deeds of Muhammad as described in Islamic texts—then rational inquiry, and the freedom to express the results of such inquiry, are beside the point. If Muslims hold that faith tells them what is right and wrong, good and bad, then they have no need of reason in such areas nor of the freedom to express alternative views in such areas, because according to faith there are no alternative views.

  10. Baucent says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 1:48 am

    It seems the secret police spent a year trying to entrap this guy with some self incriminating statement. Time might have better been spent watching some real dangerous types, like muslim jihadists.

  11. Mark says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 7:20 am

    To better understand Islam please watch share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary on You Tube. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

  12. Angemon says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Forum 18 reported that Mr Kabduakasov was prosecuted on allegations of inciting religious hatred. This was done by talking to others about his faith.

    The irony here is that muslims, not Christians, are the ones who are likely to be engaging in hate speech for talking about their religion, considering what the quran says about Judaism and Christianity. How is it that the “all-knowing” allah gets basic stuff like the Trinity wrong? Tsk tsk…

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