Posted on 02/01/2008 5:42:12 AM PST by marthemaria
A Kurdish author with asylum in Norway was sentenced in absentia in Iraq last month to six months imprisonment for blasphemy. Two years ago author Mariwan Halabjaee wrote "Sex, sharia and women in the history of Islam". Here he wrote that the prophet Mohammed had 19 wives, married a nine-year-old when he was aged 54 and that he took part in murder and rape. Last month a court in Halabja convicted him of blasphemy in absentia.
Halabjaee has lived in hiding in Norway for one and a half years. The sentence states that he should be arrested upon his return to north Iraq but he has now been granted asylum in Norway, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports on its web site.
The writer has had 14 books published. Halabjaee says that he has received a series of death threats and that there is a fatwa saying he should be punished by death unless he asks forgiveness.
Halabjaee also believes Norway is naive about radical Islamist groups that he says authorities allow to develop without control on Norwegian soil.
"Norway has protected me against the terrorists and I hope to be able to play a role in this democratic system. But I am alone and feel imprisoned. I have little contact with people and have to move carefully. Even if I have lived here a year and a half no cultural or other organizations have contacted me," Halabjaee says.
But is it true.
Funny how that question is never asked, nor matters.
Ladies and gentleman, Islam.
I would say that the entire free world is naïve about radical Islamist groups developing in their countries unimpeded. Including the US.
Blasphemy? Truth hurts........May he stay safe (and warm) in Land of the Lutefisk.................
The Iraqis have a valid gripe here. This information is simply wrong and there is no two ways about it. He married his wife Aisha when she was six and he waited until she was nine to have sex with her. That's what the Koran says. The author needs to get his facts straight.
Somehow I think that a refugee from Islamic tyranny and Sharia law would not find comfort in references to "hacking things off."
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“Halabjaee also believes Norway is naive about radical Islamist groups”
Sadly, same could be said for most of the nations of the world, at this point. Islamofascism is this century’s communism, but with the added trait of jihad.
There is no negotiation with Islam. There are no negotiable positions in the Islamic cult. There are but three outcomes, in the Islamic view: convert us, enslave us, or kill us. Tough choices, all.
The general, liberal attitude of appeasement is only granting creeping success to the Islamofascists, who view that appeasement as a sign of our weakness. The coming clash of civilizations will be cataclysmic, but appears to be unavoidable.
Lock and Load.
LOL! I guess maybe that wasn’t the best way to word that in this case.
Mohamed's behavior is well documented in islam's "holy" books - the Koran and the Hadith - it is not as if this is some secret...
It makes me start to wonder why we are in Iraq “liberating” them.
I don’t expect other countries laws or perception of rights to be the same as ours, however, if we are sending troops and spending the amounts of money we are “liberating” their people I think we should expect their people to have the unalienable rights that God has given us.
Are we creating a radical Islamic state?
How can it be blasphemy if the Koran and Hadith actually confirms it?
Good question.
This guy is in rare company in history. Jesus was convicted of blasphemy as well. Of course, Jesus followed up his claim with some pretty substantial demonstrations of his rightful place, which would be a tough act for this guy to follow. Maybe converting to christianity is his best bet.
I don’t think that the free world is naive. The free world is afraid and cowardly. It therefore won’t be free for long unless something changes.
What evidence is there that the true Muhammad ever lived at all; with nothing but the written record to analyze, the “man” could be just another myth.
Maybe
Frances dealing with the Muslim yobs torching hundreds of cars every night definitely demonstrated a streak of yellow down the spine.
But coward or not a national government can not knowingly ignore an existential threat is demonstrated by militant Islam.
My opinion is that the West is suffering from willful ignorance created by leftist ideology. Political Correctness will be the end of Western Civilization unless they wake up soon.
Maybe it’s the murder and rape part they don’t like.
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