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By: Raven (Diary)  |  September 29th, 2011 at 10:39 PM  | 

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The “Religion of Peace” strikes again.

In September of last year, a Christian pastor n Iran was sentenced to death for apostasy after having been arrested in October 2009 for complaining to his son’s school that his son was forced to read from the Koran at school.
Between June 2010 and January 2011, there were an additional 202 arrests, with many still remaining in prison. There is Some hope in this case as a higher court in Iran as ordered lower courts to look over the trial again, but the consensus is that even if the death penalty is revoked, Pastor Nadarkhani will likely not be released.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, Right Now, it is a death penalty offense to convert away from Islam. The widely publicized trial in 2006 may have ended well after pressure from President Bush, but the situation did not change the law. Last year, there was Another case, less widely publicized, of a Christian convert being tried for that very crime and with his life also on the line. No pressure from President Obama was forthcoming and his trial proceeded apace until international pressure from Other nations and private organizations secured his release just in time for Christmas last year.

Christians taken by the Taliban or other NGOs in Afghanistan, have not received such fortuitous outcomes.

And this, fellow Redstaters, is the religion of peace. The religion our current president defends in speaches and whose practices he participates in while denigrating American traditions such as the National Day of Prayer, a non-denominational event for the recognition of All religions.

Let us be aware in the current Presidential Primary feeding frenzy, that whichever person we end up with will at least be better than what we have now.

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  • mikeymike143

    and you are right about obama shilling for islam

  • aesthete

    There are many reasons for this, but it largely has to do with three things:

    1) Unlike other formerly barbaric or primitive forms of religion, such as Shinto, Islam is extremely orthodoxical, rather than orthopraxic. What I mean by this is that whereas Shinto focused on what people should go out and *do* (worship the ancestors, honor the emperor, revere the kami, etc), rather than primary texts of the religion, mainstream Islam is bound to what is in the Qu’ran. In the case of Shinto, a Japanese emperor can just say, “hey, killing people in general is bad, and disrespects the emperor” without running into problems (and that’s basically what he did after WWII), whereas a caliph preaching against developed doctrines of jihad will face serious opposition from the Fuqaha and the ummah alike. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work, but there’s be a strong resistance that doesn’t exist with religions that have no authoritative texts.

    2) Unlike all the other major world religions, Islam has a developed doctrine on holy war informed by its founding documents, its founder’s actions, and historical precedent. Not one orthodox school of Sunni or Shi’a Islam disputes the necessity or validity of jihad (the real one, not the “spiritual” one), merely its application. Shinto, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, etc all have formative experiences either a) being persecuted without fighting back or b) coexisting without incident among other groups. Islam has very few of those: it expanded aggressively and in an expansionist manner, esp in the years that followed its mass acceptance in the Arabian peninsula.

    3) Islam is completely and intimately involved in the rule of governments, and permeates every aspect of society in those places where Islam is the majority religion. This presents problems when it comes to forming healthy, positive institutions which lead to free markets and open societies: something that we can see quite clearly in both Iraq and Afghanistan’s democratically-determined laws and policies in the last few years.