Judge Muhammad Hassan Dashti said that Lydia faced an “uncertain future” and may spend “the rest of her life” in state care, but in the Islamic Republic of Iran, apparently that is preferable to the prospect of her being raised by Christians.
“Christian converts’ adopted child to be removed from their care,” Article 18, September 24, 2020:
Lydia was just three months old when she was adopted by Iranian Christian converts Sam Khosravi and wife Maryam Falahi.
Now, just one month before her second birthday, a court has ruled she must be taken away from them, as Sam and Maryam – who are currently appealing against convictions related to their membership of a house-church – are “not fit” to be her parents.
The ruling, handed down by a court in their home city of Bushehr, southwestern Iran, on 19 July but not reported until now, was upheld by a court of appeal on Tuesday, 22 September, despite the judge in his initial verdict acknowledging that Lydia felt an “intense emotional attachment” to her adoptive parents and saying there was “zero chance” another adoptive family would be found for her, given Lydia’s health problems.
It is now anticipated that Iran’s State and Welfare Organisation will seek to remove Lydia from Sam and Maryam’s care as soon as they are made aware of the failed appeal.
And it is with the state, Sam and Maryam fear, that Lydia is likely to remain. Indeed, in his initial verdict Judge Muhammad Hassan Dashti acknowledged that Lydia faced an “uncertain future” and may spent “the rest of her life” in state care.
But that didn’t prevent him from ruling against Lydia’s adoptive parents – and for one reason: they are Christian converts, and Lydia, though her parentage is not known, is considered a Muslim, and as such by law ought only to be cared for by Muslim parents.
Sam and Maryam maintain that they were always clear about their conversion to Christianity; however, the judge ruled that Lydia – a nominally “Muslim” child – should never have been placed in their care.
This fatwa by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most senior clerics in Iran, declares Sam and Lydia’s adoption “permissible”.In seeking to overturn the verdict, the couple’s lawyer managed to obtain two fatwas from Grand Ayatollahs – the most senior Shia Islamic authority in Iran – declaring that, owing to the “critical nature” of the case, poor health of the child and undisputed emotional attachment with her parents, Lydia’s adoption by Christian converts was “permissible”.
But the appeal court judges, in their short ruling, made no reference to the fatwas and only declared that they were upholding the ruling as they had not been presented with any “specific or reasonable evidence” to overturn it.
In his initial ruling, Judge Dashti was clearly sympathetic, noting that “in 13 years of marriage, [Sam and Maryam] didn’t have a child to bring light and warmth to their home”, as well as bemoaning Lydia’s “uncertain future” and strong bond with her parents.
Article18’s advocacy director, Mansour Borji, explained that the wording the judge used indicated that his hands were tied.
“The verdict clearly demonstrates the unwillingness of the judge to hand down this sentence,” he said, “and that he was coerced by the representative of the Ministry of Intelligence. It is another clear example of the lack of independence of the judiciary in cases involving Christians.”…
Check Burry says
What a horrendous organisation (sic) this group is. To take a child from her parents, extreme cruelty to them all, by the state, what a state to be in.
Check Burry says
Ministry of Intelligence! So they have a sense of humour after all.
Billy Chickens says
THIS indicates Islam’s ruthless emotional cruelty residing in the innermost depths of Satan’s hatred for mankind. Satan hates THE FAMILY since the family – man/woman/child – represents the earthly bodily trinity of love. The emotional ripping apart of this family delights Satan and his Islam.
For the rest of her life the child will be without parents – no father, no mother – to love and care for her. The parents will forever be emotionally scarred and will always wonder where their little child is and what is happening to her. How soon will the state tire of caring for this child and rape then murder her?
This is one more despicable example of Islam.
Billy Chickens says
This is the MURDER of a family. The killing of LOVE.
gravenimage says
There is no love in Islam, Billy.
Check Burry says
Surprisingly they use the word Welfare, well if this is welfare Im stumped.
Billy Chickens says
In Islam no one is allowed to be happy or well adjusted. One must always be miserable, filled with fear, absorbed by hatred. Life and everything in it must be brought to the lowest common denominator, nothing can be whole, everything must be ripped apart and destroyed. Cruelty reigns, hatred abounds, beatings, torture – both mental and physical – must must MUST be an absolute.
I hate hate HATE HATE FILTHY Islam and its FILTHY demon possessed founder and its FILTHY word of Lucifer printed in its FILTHY Quran.
Terry Gain says
The explanation for this outrage is: Islam.
Billy Chickens says
Like the Inca and Aztec cultures ripping out the hearts of living people on their satanic sacrificial altars to Lucifer, Islam likewise rips out the hearts of living people as a satanic sacrifice but is even more cruel in that the people are still alive and for the rest of their lives must live in abject misery, devoid of anything being whole for them ever again.
I cannot tell you how much this story has made me hate Islam even more than I did before. My mind is empty of words to describe how much I hate Islam and what it does to inflict pain and inhuman torture on people – people that Islam destroys, making them into living empty shells forever.
FYI says
That the Incas and Aztecs were involved in brutal genocidal wars against fellow indians in pre-columbian America doesn’t fit the Leftist history narrative.
The Aztecs fought the Texlacans,the Huaxtec,the Purempecha,the Mayans.
The Incas fought wars against the Mapuche,Shuar ,the Chimu.
They were happy to wipe out their enemies.
They murdered and enslaved fellow indians.They had empires ,wars of conquest and colonized other cultures.
They enslaved,tortured and raped fellow indians.
It is an awkward politically incorrect fact that this was all going on for centuries BEFORE Columbus.
{ I don’t agree with colonization ,it is a fact of history:but this denial of the reality of pre-columbian America is appaling and hypocritical and is a Leftist fantasy history narrative that ignores awkward facts:Leftist history likes to ignore the fact that African Chieftains sold their OWN people into slavery and slavery still exists in the islamic world}
gravenimage says
True.
FYI says
It tends not to be known in the West but Buddhists waged wars against Buddhists.
Tibetan Buddhists had a warrior tradition and fought against each other.In 1660 during the Tsang province revolt the 5th Dalai lama called for the destruction of the rebels:’ annihilate any trace of them..even their names’
Let us not forget that the Mongols were Buddhists,Japanese imperialists were inspired by Zen[and Shinto of course} ,the Siamese Empire {.. colonized throughout Asia,the Burmese-Siamese war ..}etc
Hindu kings were involved in expansionist forays and wars of conquest into South East Asia and Sri lanka.
You see ,it is not all the fault of whitey {or the West}….is it?{that’s the Leftist History Narrative}
Walter Sieruk says
That this Islamic court of Iran has ruled that Christians parents, who had been Muslims, are unfit to raise children actually means the they don’t want those to hear of and be aware of the Christian gospel of the good news about how Jesus tool their place on the cross as the total supreme for their sin, Second Corinthians 5:21.
That instead that ayatollah and mullah influenced court want the young people thoroughly indoctrinated by Islamic mind programming centers, madrassas, for Islamic brainwashing.
Moreover, 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 that Islamic court with its ruling against of Christians parents 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 court as their tools to stop Christians parents from teaching 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.
Krishna says
thats’s the life in islamic state
Billy Chickens says
ISLAM, GO BACK TO HELL FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!!!!
Adam says
This story makes me wonder what kind of life is worse for a child… Being raised a muslime? Being raised by a couple of queers+? Or celebrity ahole parents in Hollywood?
No winners I’m afraid,
James Lincoln says
Adam,
From a straight, white, married, conservative, Christian male:
Being raised by muslims or far Left Hollywood types is definitely bad. That being said, there are actually a fair percent of Hollywood conservatives who would have trouble finding work if their political views were known.
As far as homosexual couples go, it depends. I’ve known some who are conservative and hold strong Judeo Christian values, follow the Golden rule, etc. They are not *all* “nut” cases and I have seen them successfully raise normal, well-adjusted children…
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Iran: Court rules that converts to Christianity are ‘not fit’ parents, adopted child must be taken from them
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This poor child and her adopted family.
And since adoption is un-Islamic (thanks to the vicious “Prophet” Muhammed lusting after his adopted son’s wife), Lydia probably will spend the rest of her childhood unloved and ill-cared for.
God, I hate Islam.
Joel says
Iran and the whole of middle East need the light of Christ.