Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi would have you believe that saying something that he considers to be insulting to Muhammad is an act against the freedom of expression. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
“Judiciary Chief: Sacrilege of Islam Prophet Means Violation of Freedom of Expression,” Fars News Agency, September 9, 2020:
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi lashed out at the recent blasphemous moves in the West against the Islamic sanctities, saying that sacrilege of Islam Prophet (PBUH) is violence against freedom of expression.
“Insulting the holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH) is an ignorant move and deprivation of all freedoms. This is soft violence against freedom of expression and human rationality because the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) is the manifestation of human rationality,” Rayeesi said on Wednesday.
He added that sacrilege of Islam Prophet (PBUH) indicates the climax of anger of the enemies of Islam at the depth of the spiritual influence of this divine religion on the lives of human beings around the world.
Rayeesi also blasted French officials, specially President Emanuel Macron, for trying to justify blasphemy against the Islamic sanctities under the pretext of freedom of expression.
In relevant remarks on Monday, Rayeesi had expressed regret and condemned sacrilege of Islamic sanctities in certain European states concurrent with the UAE’s normalization of ties with Israel, and said, “They are part of a precise scenario compiled in a thinking chamber.”
He warned that the West and Israel want to damage Islam’s power and might in the world, saying that such devilish acts will instead increase public hate for their plotters.
Rayeesi said that sacrilege of the holy Quran is insult to all divine books and blasphemy against Islam’s Prophet (PBUH) is insult to all prophets (PBUH) and mankind.
Also, on Tuesday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a statement on Tuesday condemned the blasphemous acts against the holy Quran and Great Prophet of Islam (PBUH), warning that they are aimed at derailing attention from the plots hatched by the US and the Zionists against the region….
Ayatollah Khamenei also lambasted Macron and other French politicians for supporting the blasphemous acts, dismissing it as wrong and demagogic….
Quazgaa says
Really? Then get a load of this:
Fuck your mentally deranged prophet, one mohammed.
Oops, guess I’m a soft terrorist now.
Mount Zion says
Wouldn’t it be funny if Irans judiciary chief would get in trouble for putting it too mildly , his correligionists may argue that it’s not soft violence , when it concernes the prophet it’s hard violence .?? It wouldn’t be the first time muslims trying to outdo themselves in showing their religious zeal .
mortimer says
BALDERDASH and GIBBERISH for which the mullahs of Iran are renowned!
How can you be physically ‘VIOLENT’ against a spiritual and intellectual product or against a theoretical political CONCEPT such as FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION???
It is impossible to be PHYSICALLY VIOLENT against ideas which exist only in the MIND.
Islam has no connection to the real world, to the world of philosophy or to the modern world of independent thought.
Islam’s AUTHORITARIAN THOUGHT means that Muslims never learn to think independently for themselves.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The freedom to blaspheme is the basic freedom upon which all other freedoms are based.
What is normal to one person may be outright blasphemy to another. We cannot force billions of people with different beliefs to accept what we believe to be ‘holy’ … to them it may seems the worst blasphemy … or they may believe that the entire concept of ‘blasphemy’ to be untenable if they are agnostics.
The mullahs cannot insist on imposing their narrow 7th-century blasphemy concept on the world, since 80% of the world is non-Muslim and that number will only grow.
Half of Iranians declare themselves to be non-Muslims.
Mischief Maker in the Land says
Judiciary Chief is Away With the Fairies….er, Djinn.
DavidR says
The change in the World’s overall moral standards since the death of Muhammad has had a detrimental affect on his recorded words and misdeeds. Insulting Muhammad is as easy as quoting him, in context and in the original dialect. Bukhari’s Hadith collection overflows with hate speech, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance, child abuse, etc.- and all of it attributed to a man ridiculously considered by some to be the penultimate role model.
eduardo odraude says
The word you want is not “penultimate.” Better double-check the definition.
somehistory says
It’s really too bad that someone isn’t just making this stuff up for a laugh. What nonsense.
It seems that moslims hear a word, or read an expression, such as “phobia,” “racist,” or “freedom of speech,” and imagining that they have a mental grasp of the meanings, attempt to use them to further the goals of islam.
There is no “holy prophet of islpme.” There is nothing “holy” about this cult from satan the devil. So to tell the Truth about the slime from the desert is necessary. Hardly is it “soft violence,”…is there such a thing?. And telling the Truth about any or all of islam is very much a matter of “freedom of speech.”
Those who practice copying the fake prophet, dirty pedoluster and mass murdering liar, want to deprive everyone else of every kind and form of “freedom.” moslimes are full of gall. And the evil spirit of satan the devil.
Mike says
your all missing the big picture here
by countries allowing blasphemy laws is not the insult of the prophet
it’s ANY thing that insult Islam when I say anything I mean anything
If your a Muslim or you live is a area were blasphemy laws are adapted and you I say something they don’t like that’s blasphemy and is punishably by death
not a don’t do it again DEATH
once the door is opened it’s to late
this in one Genie that will not be able able to put back into the bottle
eduardo odraude says
Funny how the dictators are so often forced to appropriate the language of democracy and freedom. The communists with their “people democratic republics,” for example, and an official in Iran claiming to stand up for freedom of expression. When the dictators do that, they show they have already lost the game. They cannot say what they are really doing, because their own people hate them for the disgraceful and criminal things they are really doing. Their system can only stay propped up by lies.
gravenimage says
Iran’s Judiciary Chief: ‘Insulting the holy prophet of Islam is soft violence against freedom of expression’
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In other words, this is not violence and it is not against freedom of expression.
Westman says
Yes, Graven, logic totally escapes Islam.
It’s no surprise that Islam has produced very little despite an enormous Ummah. There is no empirical method to create science without logic. If a person can read the Quran and believe all of it, simultaneously, that person has no logic remaining.
Like a wound seeping blood, the Quran flushes logic from the mind until the logic and potential of a human has been extinguished; leaving a shell that prostrates itself to the Pavlovian tune of the Muezzin and honors a despicable man as a prophet.
JamesC. says
Rayeesi is correct. Islam, from his POV, is the one true religion, so, obviously, whatever oppooses it must be wrong.
It would be absurd for Muslim states to tolerate that which opposes Islam, for Muslim freedom of speech is injured by what opposes Islam. Muslim freedom of speech is freedom to be fully Muslim – not freedom to be non-Muslim or anti-Muslim.
This is a rational and coherent approach. It merely happens to exclude that which is not Muslim. Islam is not a version of secular democratic liberalism. It does not profess to be, so it cannot be blamed for failing to be what it does not profess to be.
It is not violence for a Muslim states to repress anti-Muslim “freedom of expression”, but an obligation to do so.
The trouble with liberalism is, that although its own logic allows it to protest against Islam, it has no intellectual or moral equipment that allows it to say that Islam is wrong to do as it does. It can do no more than express strong disapproval of the behaviour of Islam, but it cannot resist Islam. Liberalism has been hamstrung by its own relativism. So it is powerless to oppose Islam. Liberals cannot take vigorous action against Islam, without becoming intolerant and illiberal. They could adopt Fascism or some other dictatorial ideology, but that would mean ceasing to be liberal.
Liberalism is totally at a loss when faced with something like Islam, that cares nothing at all for Western religious, social, philosophical & political ideas.
James Lincoln says
JamesC. says,
“Liberalism is totally at a loss when faced with something like islam…”
100% true. islam / muslim migration would flourish under a Biden/Harris administration…
talleyrand says
+1
Ren says
Insulting a pedophile and terrorist is freedom of speech.
Giacomo Latta says
”such devilish acts will instead increase public hate for their plotters”
Then what has got you so upset? You’re so very hard to please, so quick to feel affronted. Perhaps if you didn’t deem yourself to be perfect in so many ways.
FYI says
This ‘holy’ prophet is a FALSE PROPHET according to..
1]The Bible{Deuteronomy 18:20}
“If any prophet dares to speak a message in My name when I did not command him to do so
he must die for it,and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods”
muhammed,a mass murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390} dies after being poisoned by a captive Jewish woman whose family he had murdrered.
muhmmed,whose Arab god allah is NOT the Biblical God YHWH.
2]the koran’s fate decreed for a FALSE PROPHET
“And if he had invented things concerning us,we assuredly had taken him by the right hand
and then severed his AORTA”
koran 69:44-46
“O Aisha!I STILL feel the pain caused by the food i ate at khaibar and at this time i feel as if MY AORTA IS CUT from that poison”
Sahih Bukhari 4428
3]his own admission
“I have fabricated things against God and imputed to him things he has not said”
Al Tabari 6:11!
4]his failed prophecies,like the world ending 100 years after his demise[Sahih muslim 31:6160,6162}
Of course islamic apologists WILL deny all this.But they cannot deny muhammed’s end was a catastrophe for..
“No calamity befalleth save by allah’s leave”
koran 64:11