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Iran: “If you insult the Prophet you will get executed, because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself”

Jul 15, 2019 3:30 pm By Robert Spencer

They don’t live in Iran, but were still sentenced to years in prison for “insulting the sanctity of Islam.” We are much more enlightened in the West: “insulting the sanctity of Islam” won’t get you imprisoned or executed (yet); it will just get you vilified, defamed, deplatformed, and branded a “hate group leader.”

“Iran Sentences Music Band to 14 Years in Jail and 74 Lashes,” Al Bawaba, July 14, 2019:

Iran has sentenced an Iranian metal band to 14 and a half years in prison and 74 lashes for the crime of playing metal.

The Revolutionary Tribunal of Tehran sentenced the two members of the band Confess – Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani – in July, reported The Wrap.

Khosravi was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison with 74 lashes while Ilkhani’s six year sentence was reduced to two years.

The duo currently reside in Norway, having fled Iran in 2017, two years after they were arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on multiple charges.

These charges included blasphemy for expressing anti-religious and anti-regime sentiments in their music.

A legal document from the General Judiciary of the Province of Tehran, obtained by Loudwire, shows the detail of the July 3 sentencing.

Khosravi received five years for “insulting the sanctity of Islam”, one year for “propoganda” against the regime, two years for “insulting the Supreme Leader and the president” and four years for leaving the country.

Six months of Khosravi’s imprisonment and 74 lashes were ordered for allegedly disturbing public opinion through the production of music containing anti-regime lyrics and insulting content and for participating in interviews with the opposition media”.

Ilkhani’s six years imprisonment, five years for “insulting the sanctity of Islam” and one year for “propoganda” against the regime, was reduced to two by the court.

According to Khosravi, the duo narrowly escaped execution because of a detail in Iranian law.

“If you insult the Prophet you will get executed, because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself. But if you blaspheme God and question his existence, he can forgive you. That was why we didn’t get executed,” Khosravi told Loudwire….

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, Iran Tagged With: Arash Ilkhani, Nikan Khosravi, Revolutionary Tribunal of Tehran


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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    The title alone of this article is vert interesting. It’s “Iran”If you insult the prophet you will be executed because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself.”

    Well how about Allah this god of Islam ? Is this Allah to to strike down a man who “insults the prophet” ? So this Islamic god need the help of Muslim to do it for him because he is powerless to do it himself.

    This is so because this Allah is a pagan moon god and therefore a false god.
    As the following essay reveals…

    First , it needs to be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.

    The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi

    • abad says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 7:26 am

      What do you think?

      Islam is the only religion on the planet that does not worship a Living God – it worships Satan.

      Muhammad is dead, Allah is dead. The only reason they are “alive” is through the blood shed in their names, by Moslems.

  2. DBM echo says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    “If you insult the Prophet you will get executed, because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself.”

    But, but, but, it’s because he’s dead that he doesn’t need any defense.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 15, 2019 at 4:27 pm

      DBM, they are quoting the ‘jurisprudence’ of SHARIA law. A verbal opposition to Islam can LEGALLY be forgiven only by Mohammed, so in consequence, a kafir blasphemer MUST BE SENTENCED TO DEATH.

      That’s Sharia law, not an opinion.

    • Herb Lubi says

      Jul 15, 2019 at 11:30 pm

      Does the Prophet have more respect than Allah his god? I think he does as Muhammad is a false Prophet that Jesus has warned about.

  3. Thomas F Mills says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    Bull Shit

  4. C T says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    In this case, I definitely hold that Allah IS greater. He is far, far greater and bigger than Mohammed. And if I feel in my heart that God doesn’t agree with Mohammed, you bet I’m going to side with Allah.

    If there are any devout Muslims reading this, you KNOW in your hearts that Allah doesn’t approve of much of what Mohammed did and said. Choose Allah. He is so much greater than any man, even a prophet.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jul 15, 2019 at 4:44 pm

      This is an excellent time to revisit the video made several years ago by David Wood concerning the circumstances of Muhammad’s death.

      • CRUSADER says

        Jul 16, 2019 at 2:46 am

        Cut to the chase: Mohamhead was poisoned!

        Pirate pals wanted his power for themselves….

        All a shakedown, Arabic style with bedouin ethics thrown in.

  5. mortimer says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    ALL MUSLIMS ARE AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE A BLASPHEMER (Sharia law):

    From Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05:

    “The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
    -5- MENTIONS something IMPERMISSIBLE about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.”

    Sharia permits the murder of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are ‘at war’ with Islam:

    “There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593

    • Ryan says

      Jul 17, 2019 at 12:15 pm

      Hi, it is Chapter ‘O’ 11.10, not Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05. There is no “.05” after “11.10”. Also, the page number is 609. Please update the second line of your otherwise correct comment.

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 5:36 pm

    If you insult the Prophet you will get executed, because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself. But if you blaspheme God and question his existence, he can forgive you. That was why we didn’t get executed

    So insulting allah is not as serious as insulting muhammad? Goot it – I’ll remember this case the next time an islamic apologist tells me it’s haram to hold muhammad on the same level as allah…

  7. jewdog says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    I still speak ill of my deceased mother-in-law, who is not here to defend herself. I just hope I’m not sentenced by the Mullahs.

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 6:50 pm

    Iran: “If you insult the Prophet you will get executed, because he’s dead and he can’t defend himself”
    ………………….

    Grotesque fake victim mongering. Saying anything critical about a pedophile, caravan raider, rapist, slaver, sex slaver, and mass murderer is harming the poor defenseless “Prophet”, but persecuting and murdering decent people for opposing evil is perfectly Halal. This is how pious Muslims think.

    These poor musicians.

  9. Ren says

    Jul 15, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    The prophet Mo is dead. So will be islam.

  10. elee says

    Jul 16, 2019 at 1:27 am

    Hey you goddamn neo-Nazis, change your name back to Persia and stop proclaiming that your nation is “Aryan” every time you say your country’s name

  11. hourifromparadise says

    Jul 16, 2019 at 2:58 am

    So when you insult slaveholder mohammed they are chopping off your head .
    How can it be that when you insult the greatest murderer by proxy mohammed (570-632) , his gang will kill you ?
    Why should you believe such a man .
    There is no justice in mohammeds cult at all , it is believing the words of an ignorant ventriloquist .
    A man putting words in the mouth of his puppet allah .
    When he has 4 wives and he wants a fifth , he goes to bed and the next morning he tells his audience of idiots that allah spoke to him and has allowed him to have an infinite amount of women .
    How stupid must you be to believe this kind of crap .

  12. FYI says

    Jul 16, 2019 at 6:40 am

    Infidel Haha a Royal Flush…you know ..ehm..i’ll bet your “prophet” muhammed couldn’t win at poker.
    Abdool enough with the insults:you have insulted the prophet by suggesting he couldn’t win at poker.

    Infidel 3x=12 so x=?Good boy stewie,yes x=4!Only 2 years old and he can work it out….ya know..i’ll bet the prophet muhammed when he was a kid couldn’t solve a basic algebraic equation haha
    Abdool Agh!Now you have gone too far..by implying a tiny little 2 year old infidel crusader boy could possibly be smarter than muhammed{pbuh}when he was a boy.

    Infidel Do you think muhammed would like this dress?We know he used to wear Aisha’s sahih bukahri 2442.
    maybe he wouldn’t get the color co-ordination right.
    Abdool how dare you suggest muhammed would have no sense of fashion:you have insulted the prophet!

  13. grego says

    Jul 16, 2019 at 12:35 pm

    Yep, muhammad is dead(and I am glad), but my LORD has risen and lives. HE will live for all of eternity. And HE is full of love. Not like that hateful, greedy muhammad.

  14. vtology says

    Jul 17, 2019 at 2:17 am

    If they “reside in Norway,” why do they have to worry about Iran’s prison system? The article needs to explain this.

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