Posted on 09/29/2014 1:50:40 PM PDT by markomalley
A 37-year-old man has been executed in Iran after being found guilty of heresy and insulting prophet Jonah, according to human rights activists.
Mohsen Amir-Aslani was arrested nine years ago for his activities which the authorities deemed were heretical. He was engaged in psychotherapy but also led sessions reading and reciting the Qur’an and providing his own interpretations of the Islamic holy book, his family said.
Amir-Aslani was hanged last week for making “innovations in the religion” and “spreading corruption on earth”, but human rights activists said he was a prisoner of conscience who was put to death because of his religious beliefs. He had interpreted Jonah’s story in the Qur’an as a symbolic tale.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Didn’t ISIS operatives destroy the tomb of Jonah? And now they kill one of their own for dissing him?
Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of the 11th century. Gee. Can’t imagine why Israel would be apprehensive if these fun loving mullahs obtained nuclear weapons.
I’m sure the UN will get right on this case, just as soon as they’re done ensuring that Latin America is gay enough.
Gee, why can’t the UN kick out any country that has state punishment for heresey.....
Oh that is because at LEAST 57 cvountries would have to be kicked out of it...
Damned UN is useles...
ISIS....ISIL....whatever, is Sunni. Iran is Shia..............
Why yes, I believe that ISIS did blow up the tomb of Jonah.
www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/iraq-violence/
So, this inevitable begets the question; when does Iran declare war on ISIS for heresy?
He smelled like fish?
He was swallowed by a guppy?
I guess it was fair to note that he was disobedient and a sorehead ... but I doubt he'd be on anybody's radar as a recipient worthy of insults.
Picking on a minor Prophet is pretty low ...
I’ll bet a dollar that this mook what got whacked was pimping a blog.
ISIS is Sunni, Iran is Shia. Each considers the other as heresy.
Religion of peace and tolerance.
I think it’s all just a big fish story.
It’s a whale of a tale.
"So if blowing up Jonah’s shrine makes pretty much everyone equally angry, why did ISIS do it? The answer lies in ISIS’s peculiarly “orthodox” — and destructive — theology, which, among other things, abhors all religious shrines because they are seen as a form of idolatry, or shirk. This is par for the course for certain strains of Salafi movements like ISIS, which seek a radical return to their understanding of how the earliest Muslims (or Salaf) lived. These Salafi movements have destroyed tombs before: Some extremists attacked the tombs of Sufi Muslim leaders in 2011, and when Salafis took over Saudi Arabis in the late 1700s and earlier 1800s, they demolished several tombs that belonged to the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and family members (they left Muhammad’s tomb alone, however)."
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/01/3466867/why-isis-blew-up-jonahs-tomb/
Iran backs Shiite militias in Iraq and the Assad government in Syria, which are at war with ISIS.
Religion of Peace strikes again. Practice the religion the way we tell you or you will have no peace.
Liberals here are green with envy that they cannot execute us for heresy against their Messiah.
The prophet Jonah?
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