There is constant low-level pressure upon non-Muslims in Iran, with an eye toward compelling them to convert to Islam out of sheer exhaustion over the difficulty of living as a non-Muslim. This is also one of the motivations behind the dhimmitude system: to make life as a non-Muslim so uncomfortable that one converts to Islam simply for some breathing room.
“Iran Threatens To Expel Christian Children From Schools,” by Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, September 7, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– Iran’s government has ordered children belonging to families of one of the country’s largest house church movements to study the Koran and Shi’a Islam teachings or face expulsion from school, a church official confirmed to BosNewsLife Thursday, September 7. The Church of Iran movement is also concerned about four jailed members saying one of them “was deported to a feared secret police facility” in the southern city of Shiraz.
These latest education measures and pressure on Christian prisoners are part of a government campaign against Bible believing Christians in the Islamic nation, according to Christians familiar with the situation. “Right now [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani wants to prove that he is a good Muslim by persecuting Christians,” said Firouz Khandjani, a Church of Iran council member. “Most of the new Christians are former Muslims.”
The government-backed policy adopted by school authorities in Shiraz and the coastal city of Rasht deprives Christian children of primary and secondary education unless they agree to religious instruction that does not conform to their faith, he confirmed.
Parents and other believers might also face prison for openly confessing that Jesus is Lord, seen as blasphemy by strict Islamic authorities, BosNewsLife learned. The Church of Iran said it now fears mistreatment of active members Mohammad Roghangir, Bijan Haghighi, Eskandar Rezaie and Surush Saraie who are behind bars in Shiraz.
In 2013, Roghangir was sentenced to six years and Massoud Rezaie to five years imprisonment on what their friends viewed as “trumped-up charges” such as “action against the national security” and “propaganda against the system.”
NEW DETENTION
Saraie was “re-arrested” at his home in Shiraz after being released early from Adelabad Prison in November 2015 while Rezaie, was detained again in July, after being released temporarily from Adelabad Prison in December 2015, Christians said.
Both men were initially captured in October 2012, along with five other Christians, during a police raid on a prayer meeting, and found guilty of threatening national security and propaganda against the Islamic state. Saraie received a two-and-a-half year sentence in July 2013, later upheld on appeal, which he began serving in July 2014. Rezaie received a one year sentence, which started in July 2015.
One of them, Surush Saraie, was recently taken to Pelak 100, a notorious detention center run by the Intelligence Services (VEVAK), Khandjani explained. “It’s like the Gestapo [during World War Two].” While there, attempts were allegedly made to pressure him into making confessions, he said. “Usually they want to make us confess that we receive money from Britain or the United States to shake Islamic values,” Khandjani noted.
“The authorities are trying to eradicate Christianity, just as the Islamic State group, but smarter,” claimed Khandjani, who is himself in hiding….
Andy says
I’ll choose Expulsion!!!
Lucia Bartoli says
I agree 100%
gravenimage says
If you are not able to get out of Iran, this means you face a future of nothing but manual labor–and the Mullahs know it.
John Forbes says
PEACE is like PAX ROMANA – SUBJUGATION under the SHARIA
This is what the WEST is DENYING & it is an utter disgrace that they continually like PARROTS keep trotting out with the UTTER NONSENSE ! ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE & VIOLENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM !
Henner720 says
Nothing lost. Let iran expand there gangsta totalitarian priethood teachings, and progress into stagnation and slow suffucating death by boredom.
Santa Voorhees says
….. this is just one of the several reasons why buddhists in Myanmar are driving muslims out of the country.
And yet Iran expects from Myanmar to stop that…. yeah, what about Iran and other muslim countries stop persecuting christians and other minorities?
Bob says
As usual, the muslims are the victims!
Lucia Bartoli says
Is there nothing like (similar to) homeschooling in Iran or even christian schools or other education that is not religious based? If that were my family, I’d pay off, or sneak off, or do whatever I could to get out of Iran. (Just as the Jews did in the early days of Nazism). One must prepare to take a stand, regardless of the cost. If not the end of the line is death…either way.
gravenimage says
There is no future for Infidels in Iran. I would get out if I could.
Lucia Bartoli says
Hungary won’t allow them into their country. Ditto, I BELIEVE, Romania. Poland is managing to hold its own. Yet now they are threatened by the other nations of EU. I’d starve before I’d give IN or UP.
gravenimage says
Poland and the Czech Republic are keeping ravening Mohammedans out, as well.
Jenny H says
Slovakia also, isn’t it?
gravenimage says
Iran orders Christian children to study Qur’an or face expulsion from school
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Aren’t you glad Obama decided to play footsie with these thugs? sarc/off
gravenimage says
Oh, and where is “Christianblood” to tell us that persecution of Christians in Iran is no big deal?
mortimer says
WHERE IS THE TOLERANCE OF ISLAM? Apparently, don’t look in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of Iran, because the Shi’ite version of Islam is JUST AS INTOLERANT and the Saudi Wahhabist version… or even MORE intolerant.
The mullahocracy has been treating Baha’is and Zoroastrians as badly as the Nazis treated those nations captured by the Third Reich.
The mullahs should be tried for crimes against humanity and genocide and for promoting wars.
Wellington says
Coming soon: Iran orders all earthlings to study Koran or face expulsion from earth.
Yes, this is hyperbole, but not by that much. Miss the “not by that much” part and you will miss a lot.
gravenimage says
Wellington wrote:
Coming soon: Iran orders all earthlings to study Koran or face expulsion from earth.
Yes, this is hyperbole, but not by that much.
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Actually, this is not hyperbole, Wellington–that “expulsion from earth” is murder, and this often *is* what Muslims do to those who resist embracing the savagery of Islam.
nicholas tesdorf says
Making the Christian children study the Qur’an will increase their faith in Christianity no end. The children will be deeply disturbed by what they read in the Qur’an.
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Lord take care of the Christians in Iran
John S. Obeda says
Let us all remember to pray for the persecuted church, every day.
Telh says
Do they really study what it says or are they just fed a sectarian view of what they would like it to say?
Eur says
in Morocco it is also obligatory to study that shit. It does not matter if your parents are Muslim, Christian or non-believers.
Angelo D'Argento says
Actually this is a blessing in disguise. Christian kids will learn to appreciate their Christian faith more once being forced to study the Quran, Hadiths, and the life of it’s pedophile, pervert, psychopath, psychotic, false prophet. These Christians will not only learn to value their faith but will be best equipped to then know Islam is a violent evil counterfeit religion, and can then expose it and preach truth to the other Muslim kids and convert them into seeing Islam is fake. The problem is that the ‘religion of peace’ will probably behead these kids or punish them and their parents violently for it. Which is terrible, but will further illustrate how satanic Islam is.
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Chris Malan says
Nothing wrong with learning about Islam. If only the liberal left knew Islam they wouldn’t be so enamoured by it. Know your enemy makes sense. I realise a glamorised picture of Islam will be offered, but the Internet is there to verify what the religious instructor says. Those too stupid to read will be deceived in any case.
D Austin says
Ever notice that in the Bible, the wicked are used as a means of judgement against others, and then are later destroyed themselves? The leftists are deceived because they are all marked for destruction by the time the smoke clears.
Jenny H says
Would they have access to anti-Islamic sites such as Jihad Watch?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Could be risky for them to access stuff like JW, but it sure makes a good study companion for Al Koran.
Walter Sieruk says
First, that Iran’s mullahs and other Muslims in power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran try as they might to force Christian study the Quran is part of their Islamic scheme to “convert” those impressionable children to Islam. This is despicable.
Second, those mullahs and ayatollahs in Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.] All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teacher s who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.
Jacqueleen says
Islam, the so-called religion of peace (Satan’s lie) is forced upon people because that is how the devil works. He deceives, intimidates, lies, tricks, forces, harms, kills and the list goes on. If Satan did not force you to belong to Islam, you would run as fast as you could the other way because of the violence, the threats, the punishments, the backward tenets, etc, all that you would recognize as not from God at all. Allah is Satan and followers of Islam are Satan followers. All that is preached goes against not only the true God’s Word but against the Natural Law….ISOLATION IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH ISLAM. ALL MUSLIMS MUST BE EVICTED AND SENT BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND BANNED FROM ENTRY INTO A CIVILIZED COUNTRY. ISOLATION WILL STOP THEM FROM HARMING ANYMORE INNOCENT PEOPLE. LET THEM KILL THEMSELVES.
Jacqueleen says
Correction….all who follow Islam are Satan’s Army…..Rather an ugly thought, agree?
Lydia says
You must resist, no matter what.
Early Christians went to the lions.
Persecution has many forms.
“For this reason, ‘They are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to fountains of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’” Revelation 7; 15-17
sidney penny says
I am surprised that there are any Christians left in Iran.
The number of Hindus and Christians in Pakistan and Bangladesh has been reduced severely since Pakistan was created.(60 years ago)
The remaining ones suffer persecution especially Christian in Pakistan.
gravenimage says
According to quite a few accounts, despite the oppression Christianity is actually growing in Iran.