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Islamic Republic of Iran regularly imprisons, tortures, kills religious minorities

Jun 19, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

While Iran points the finger at the U.S. for injustice.

“State Department: Iran Imprisoning, Torturing, Killing Religious Minorities,” by Penny Starr, Breitbart, June 13, 2020:

Non-Muslims in Iran suffer persecution at the hands of the government, including imprisonment, torture, and execution, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom.

The State Department published its annual report detailing the status of religious rights in every country this week.

Iran’s constitution openly offers rights to Muslims only and threatens religious minorities.

“The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion,” the report stated. “It states all laws and regulations must be based on ‘Islamic criteria’ and an official interpretation of sharia.”

“The constitution states citizens shall enjoy human, political, economic, and other rights, ‘in conformity with Islamic criteria,’” the report detailed. “The penal code specifies the death sentence for proselytizing and attempts by non-Muslims to convert Muslims, as well as for moharebeh (enmity against God) and sabb al-nabi (insulting the Prophet).”

“The constitution states Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians, excluding converts from Islam, are the only recognized religious minorities permitted to worship and form religious societies ‘within the limits of the law,’” the report read.

In reality, all religious minorities suffer persecution in Iran. “Enmity against God” is a crime punishable by death, used to target non-Muslims. Non-Shia Muslims, like Sunnis and Sufis, accused of non-religious crimes also face a disproportionately large number of executions, particularly Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs.

Those not killed, human rights group warned, face “torture, beatings in custody, forced confessions, poor prison conditions, and denials of access to legal counsel.”

Among the religious minorities targeted for their faith overtly, those of the Baha’i faith are particularly targeted, according to the State Department report.

“According to multiple sources, non-Shia Muslims and those affiliated with a religion other than Islam, especially members of the Baha’i community, continued to face societal discrimination and harassment, while employers experienced social pressures not to hire Baha’is or to dismiss them from their private-sector jobs,” the report noted. “Baha’is reported there was continued destruction and vandalism of their cemeteries.”

“The Baha’i International Community (BIC) reported Baha’is remained barred from government employment at the local, provincial, and national levels, not only in the civil service but also in such fields as education and law,” the report stated.

“The website IranWire reported that between March and October judiciary officials engaged in a wave of increased summons, detentions, and trials of Baha’is, and during this six-month period, at least 65 Baha’is stood trial in various cities across the country, “ the report stated.

“The law bars Baha’is from founding or operating their own educational institutions,” the report read. “A Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology order requires universities to exclude Baha’is from access to higher education or to expel them if their religious affiliation becomes known. Government regulation states Baha’is are only permitted to enroll in universities if they do not identify themselves as Baha’is.”…

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  1. Beverly says

    Jun 19, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    Isn’t Islam wonderful. I wonder how much extra credit they get with Allah for torturing people before they kill them. This ideology is psychopathic.

  2. DH says

    Jun 19, 2020 at 3:40 pm

    Allah is a small minded god suitable for ignorant people who enjoy watching others suffer and die. He talks all about himself in the Quran so just open up a random page. He’ll be there talking about how much he hates so and so, mixed in with self adulation and perhaps a stupid rule which will become enshrined in Shariah.

    • Kenneth M. Murphy says

      Jun 19, 2020 at 6:25 pm

      I particularly like the one about the 90 foot tall Adam. The one about the flying horse and Mo’s ‘Flight to Mecca’ .. What a WaCkY religion. .. lol ..

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 19, 2020 at 10:57 pm

        Kenneth, I *wish* Islam was just wacky. Unfortunately, much of it is far uglier than that.

  3. Battle says

    Jun 19, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    The Iran constitution says “in conformity with Islamic criteria.”

    Then where is the highly valued Islamic value of discussion? Where is the discussion?

    Sorry death is not discussion. Sorry imprison is not discussion. Firing from employment is not discussion.

    Rather than kill their own, all other religions have discussion.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 19, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    Concerning the subject of the persecution regarding the harassment and imprisonment and even torture of Christians of Iran further expose the intolerant brutal and murderous “mullah regime “ of Iran

    First, it would be naive not to understand the those mullahs and ayatollahs didn’t have a hand in having their stooges , who are Islamic state police, the Revolutionary Guard s arrest many Christians because those in power in the Islamic tyranny are ruthless and cruel.

    Second, this is further proof that Islam is such a weak and fragile religion that the arrest of those few Christians was felt necessary by the ayatollah, mullah and imams of Iran. For those Muslim clerics are afraid that if the Iranian people even have a chance to examine and thus compare and contrast the Bible and the Quran the people of Iran might discover that the Bible of the super of those two books.

    Since the foundation for the tyrannical regime of the Islamic “Republic” of Iran is based on the Quran, which is also the entire foundation for of Islam, the Muslim clerics fear that their power base might collapse. So the arrests and sentencing to death of Christians reveals extreme fear those Muslim clerics have of the Bible, For this also show that those Muslim clerics in power in that “mullahs regime” of Iran will use .the Islamic state police and their tools to stop Christians and keep the Iranian people in in ignorance of the Bible and in the darkness of Islam.

    Third, those mullahs and ayatollahs and imams of 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 teachers 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.”

    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.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 19, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran regularly imprisons, tortures, kills religious minorities

    While Iran points the finger at the U.S. for injustice.
    ………………..

    Yes–this could not possibly be more grotesque.

  6. mortimer says

    Jun 20, 2020 at 3:12 am

    The corrupt mullahocracy is one the biggest groups of hypocrites in any country.

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