Kaplony
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RE: BREAKING: Religion of peace attacking cafe in Australia
(12-15-2014 02:23 PM)I45owl Wrote: (12-15-2014 12:38 PM)Kaplony Wrote: (12-15-2014 12:18 PM)I45owl Wrote: (12-15-2014 10:12 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote: CNN reports he is an Iranian! Very surprising. I thought for sure he was going to be a Finn from Helsinki.
It's curious that an Iranian would declare support to ISIS (who seem intent on slaughtering Shia when possible ... the fact that Iran, Hezbollah, and Assad are aligned against ISIS has more to do with nationalism, but ISIS's antipathy for Shia in Iraq seems more fundamental).
I was wondering the same thing, but I also wonder why he was a refugee from Iran. Perhaps he is a refugee because he is really a Sunni who fled rather than convert to Shia.
CNN reported that he had converted to Sunni, presumably in the West (I think they said that, but I can't recall). Sunnis are recognized by the state of Iran and have seats reserved in Parliament. I'm not sure that they're persecuted per se, as Bahai, Zoroastrian, etc. are. My understanding is that Jews and Christians are well treated in Iran (certainly relative to their Arab peers).
Iran has been cracking down on non-Shia sects for several years now. They consider non-Shia sects to be enemies of the state.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree...umanrights
Quote:News is filtering out of Iran of mass arrests of Sunni Muslims living in the south-east of the country, in the annexed and occupied region of Balochistan. It signifies a coordinated crackdown against religious and ethnic dissidents who oppose Tehran's clerical sectarianism and its neo-colonial subjugation of the Baloch people.
Iran's repression, which has intensified since August, is targeting expressions of Baloch identity and culture; in particular expressions of religious freedom and national self-determination.
The Baloch people are a separate ethnic group within Persian-dominated Iran, and have long suffered racist persecution. In contrast to the Shia Muslim regime in Tehran, the Baloch are predominantly Sunni Muslims. This combination of ethnic and religious dissidence has led to them being harshly victimised by successive Iranian leaders, from the Shah to President Ahmadinejad.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/...n-in-iran/
Quote:A new report from the United Nations has shed new light on the extent of persecution faced by non-Muslims in Iran.
The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday that Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, detailed in a report last month the continued repression of religious freedoms in the Islamic Republic. The report included a shocking claim from an Iranian convert to Christianity named only as “Mr. Faraz” who said, “Individuals who visit Christian websites have a virus implanted on their computer.” TheBlaze is unable to verify his claim, and he did not provide further detail on the allegation.
Quote:Christians are not alone in being persecuted, according to the report, which provided a count of those detained: “As of 3 January 2014, at least 307 members of religious minorities were in detention, of whom 136 were Baha’is, 90 Sunni Muslims, 50 Christians, 19 Dervish Muslims (four Dervish human rights lawyers were also reportedly detained), four were Yarasan, two were Zoroastrians, and six were from other groups.”
Quote:“We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s continuing violations of religious freedom,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan told TheBlaze at the time.
“The government continues to disregard the rights of its citizens, including Christians, Bahais, Sufis, Jews and members of other minority religious groups,” Meehan said. “Members of religious minorities are frequently subject to harassment, arbitrary detention and death. We again call for the Iranian government to urgently release all prisoners of conscience, including those detained for practicing their religion.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2...n-in-iran/
Quote:The Islamic Republic of Iran often is in the news, and usually for all the wrong reasons. Tehran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons, though U.S. intelligence agencies see no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program. Iran also has a deteriorating human rights record.
The Islamic state is a particularly inhospitable home to religious minorities—Christians, Baha’is, Jews, Sunni Muslims. Iran is Exhibit #1 for the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists gaining control of government.
Quote:All laws and regulations are to be “based on Islamic criteria.” The constitution formally accords “full respect” to Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians, who are supposed to be allowed to practice freely “within the limits of the law.” However, these three groups are not to proselytize and conversion from Islam is punished by death. Moreover, the Islamic regime cares little for constitutional niceties. Warned the USCIRF, “Even the recognized non-Muslim religious minorities protected under Iran’s constitution—Jews, Armenian and Assyrian Christians, and Zoroastrians—faced increasing discrimination, arrests, and imprisonment.”
More vulnerable are non-recognized groups, such as Baha’is, who are considered to be apostates. Noted State, “The government prohibits Baha’is from teaching and practicing their faith and subjects them to many forms of discrimination that followers of other religions do not face.” The Commission also pointed to Sufi Muslims and Jews, who had grown more fearful due to “Heightened anti-Semitism and repeated Holocaust denials by senior government officials.” Sunni Muslims are doubly vulnerable since they typically are ethnic minorities—Arabs, Kurds, and others.
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BREAKING: Religion of peace attacking cafe in Australia
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