“For them there is disgrace in this world and for them in the hereafter is an awful doom.” (Qur’an 2:114)
It is up to the believers in Islam to make sure that those who are considered unbelievers suffer disgrace in this world.
“Religious Minorities in Iran’s Prisons: ‘You Don’t Know What They Do to Us.'” by Maryam Dehkordi, Iran Wire, September 28, 2021:
“The situation of political and ideological prisoners in Iran is appalling. This isn’t kept secret from anyone. But if you are a religious minority, I’d venture the situation in prison always becomes more intolerable. I have experienced harassment, against myself and others, which I am sure wouldn’t have happened were we not Sunni.”
So says Soran, a Sunni citizen of Kurdistan province who has served time in both Sanandaj and Rajaei Shahr Prisons. The ill-treatment he received, he said, began long before he was brought into custody. “The border areas are tightly controlled by the security agencies and all activity in these areas becomes a political-security issue. Whether it’s environmentalism or labor movements, civil or pro-human rights activities, or even simple citizenship claims, everything where I grew up is viewed through a security lens. That’s why the torture and harassment begins even before you get to prison.”
Political defendants in areas like Kurdistan, he says, face particularly harsh treatment from the authorities. “In cases where a person is hit with a political or ideological charge – no matter how credible – their arrest is being carried out in the most terrifying and brutal way possible. Security forces raid their home during the worst hours of the day and night, without the slightest respect for their rights. From the outset, there’s noise, shouting, cursing, beating and sometimes even shots fired, regardless of the neighbors or the makeup of the household. They often violate people’s privacy by entering the bedrooms. All that only happens because the person is a religious minority.”
In one such raid Soran witnessed, officers fired four shots at the defendant. “Obviously when an attack like this takes place, some people try to escape. This was a simple man. He was facing baseless allegations. His elderly mother was beaten in such a way that several parts of her chest and arms were broken. His wife was sleeping in her pyjamas when they kicked the bedroom door open and entered. He was shot in the leg while trying to escape, and was then beaten so badly we thought he might not live. They took him away anyway.”
This particular person, Soraj says, was then interrogated for several weeks alongside other political and security prisoners in the dreadful basement of Sanandaj. “The bullets were left in his leg for a few days. Only when it got infected and his condition became critical did they let the prison doctor come and see him….
What happens to prisoners of conscience and religious minorities behind bars, Soran said, was barely if ever covered outside. “What’s reflected in the media is the tip of the iceberg. Getting information outside is generally costly for prisoners, and if you’re a religious minority, the cost multiplies. You don’t know what happened after news of the Rajaei Shahr executions was published, and when they found out the video of the prisoners’ protest had been leaked from inside. They kept us naked for hours in the sun and to inspect the ward. We didn’t even dare blink or shift on our feet. There were a whole lot of broken limbs and heads. Then for a long time, breaks were cancelled, telephone calls and visits were forbidden, and even the food quality deteriorated. For a long time, there was only dinner for four nights a week. No one realizes what happened to us.”
No-One is Spared
The systematic dehumanizing of non-Shia Muslim prisoners is not specific to a particular institution, nor to one particular religious minority. A Yarsani ex-political prisoner, who served his sentence in Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah, told IranWire: “In Kermanshah, because there are a lot of Yarsanis and even those who are now Muslims were once Yarsanis, we were less likely to face discrimination solely based on religion. But the harassment occurred repeatedly nonetheless.”
By means of an example, he cites the forced shaving of Yarsanis’ traditional moustaches in jail, which is meant to humiliate and degrade them. “In December 2020, officials in Saveh Prison forcibly shaved off the moustache of a Yarsani named Javad Ahmadi. Prison and government officials have repeatedly carried out this insulting act.” In addition, he said, “beard shaving in prisons is a common issue. Despite the fact that the barbers are instructed not to touch Yarsanis’ and the dervishes’ moustaches, news of these incidents occasionally gets published in the media. In Dieselabad, to harass the Sunni prisoners, they also played music and eulogies that insulted the caliphs and their beliefs. The officers would laugh and ridicule them when they saw how they were suffering.”
TruthWFree says
Shia Muslim persecuting Sunni Muslims. These atrocities should tell them their total Islamic religion is from Hell. Islam needs to be wiped from the earth. It is Satan’s religion.
Rarely says
Would you draw the same conclusion about Christianity during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation?
Billy Chickens says
No.
Ade Fegan says
rarely says is of his rocker
Honest Ali says
We need to be honest about the 30 years war and the Inquisition, and the brutal persecution of religious minorities by both Catholics and Protestants.
Christianity and Islam are kissing cousins and worship the same god. There is no difference between the Old Testament god, and the god of the Qur’an.
We have religious freedom here in America, in spite of Christians who wanted America to be a theocracy with Christianity as a state religion. And who wanted to exterminate all minority Christian sects.
That is History Fact.
Deal with it.
gravenimage says
Honest Ali, your claim that the loving God of Christianity is the same as the vicious figure of “Allah” is quite mistaken.
Infidel says
No, b’cos there was always a legitimate debate about which one was the true Christianity – Catholic or Lutheran? Besides the good ole Orthodox churches
Johnny B says
You seem to be implying that Islam at some point will go through a similar transformation. If you ever read Christian and Islamic scriptures you’d quickly notice how these differ fundamentally. Whereas the Bible very often requires interpretation, the Quran and the Hadiths are always to be understood in literal terms. This is not least the case when it comes to the commandments about the killing the Jews, Christians, and other non-believers. You will not find a scriptural basis for such actions in the Bible and they were never there to begin with really. As a matter of fact, the Bible command us to love and treat our enemies humanely. The juxtaposition of Christianity and Islam with regards to the Reformation is completely unfounded and just a smokescreen really.
Lion heart says
Honest Ali : Christians and Muslims don’t worship the same god ! You are wrong ! The god of Islam teaches nothing but hate agdibdt no Muslims especially towards Christians & Jews ! Deal with it you and don’t try to lie to Canadian Christians originally from Iraq who know Islam more than you and than any other nation on earth as Christians of Iraq have been suffering from Islam since it’s rise .
Proud Islamophobe says
Well said.
James Lincoln says
Lion heart,
Honest Ali knows this – or should.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Johnny B.
Bruce Watt says
Muslims, Jews, Hindis, agnostics etc. suffered as much during reformation and inquisition as any others, only the Muslims never changed the kill all infidel and murder those that quit the religion, they will never change until they die out or has been said wiped from the earth. you already agreed the Christians became civilised 600 years ago, why cant Islam?
gravenimage says
Rarely, Christianity itself does not teach this kind of violence. Yes, Christians have had some ugly history, but it was because they ignored the teachings of their own faith.
Not so with Islam, which teaches violence towards any form of Islam not deemed orthodox.
Then, Christians are not acting like this today. Would that we could say the same for Muslims. That yopu had to cite a period dating back four hundred years and more is very telling.
maria says
they always hated each other though they both belong to a satanic sekt. And you are right. To save the mankind islam must be wiped ou rom the earth
Ade Fegan says
Wiping islam off the face of the earth can be done without violence or persecution ..
When enough people speak the truth about it, it’s finished
Infidel says
I’m sympathetic to any Christian, Jew or Zoroastrian being persecuted in Iran. Sunnis? No: they can try and hightail it to either Afghanistan or Tajikistan, both countries which are sunni and speak dialects of Farsi
mortimer says
While the West has passed through the Enlightenment, Islam has remained in the Middle Ages with the barbarity of the Middle Ages intact.
Islam has trouble accepting modern human rights codes, because they are in conflict with strict Sharia law.
When Muslims realize that Sharia is inhumane, savage and brutal, they start to experience cognitive dissonance. It may take a brutal prison experience of religious persecution to wake certain Muslims out of their Sharia fantasy world and become an enlightened modern person.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, when Muslims are imprisoned or tortured they in most cases just blame other sect Muslims–and then often do the same to them if they gain enough power. Very few see Islam itself as the problem.
Billy Chickens says
Honest Ali, be honest with yourself and admit that Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God. That is “historical fact so deal with it”.
DavidR says
The Muslim version of The Inquisition. It started about a day after Muhammad died and still hasn’t run out of steam.
mortimer says
Reply to DavidR: the Muslim version of the Inquisition was created by Mohammed in Koran 3.104 “Let there arise out of you a BAND OF PEOPLE inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones who are successful (at pleasing Allah).”
This is he authorization for Muslims to form vigilante enforcement squads to enforce the will of the Islamic community egged on by the mullahs.
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gravenimage says
+1
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Enough of this Muslim on Muslim racism. Time to hold all the White racists from the West accountable. Their corrosive influence is so apparent throughout all of the free Muslim world.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious.
notnolib says
ALLAHU’S SNACKBAR!!!!
THE place for pork!! It’s mohammedelicious!
Walter Sieruk says
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 so 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.
Proud Islamophobe says
It is hard for me to have compassion for any moslem because they would all do the same thing, given the opportunity. A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. One sect’s quran is no different than the other’s.
Vito says
Iran is a member of UN Human Rights Council. (What a joke)
Iran is a Founding Member of The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which passed UN Resolution 16/18.
This is further proof UN Resolution 16/18 is a Sham!
56 Islamic States & Palestinian Terror-Tory do not even follow their own Resolution, which they are seeking to impose on rest of the Western World.
OIC, UN is Sham!
gravenimage says
Yes–this is ludicrous, and has been going on for decades. It got so bad that the UN changed the name slightly, from the Human Rights Committee to the Human Rights Council–but then continued the same grotesque grotesque policies of appointing some of the most human-rights violating countries in the world to the board. Sham indeed.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran: Religious minorities tortured in prisons, ‘You don’t know what they do to us’
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This is what pious Muslims do not just to Infidels, but also to Muslims who are considered the “wrong” sect. “heretics”, and just the “insufficiently Islamic”.
God, I hate Islam.