As if we needed another reminder of the precious gift we enjoy in our freedom of religion in America, here comes yet another story to jolt us. This one from Iran and shared by the Washington Post.
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani will likely be executed in the next few days in Iran. His crime? Being unwilling to revert back to the faith of his ancestors, Islam. Pastor Yousef has refused to recant his Christian faith. His Christian faith in Iran may cost him his life.
May his faith and steadfastness inspire you and me to greater levels of fidelity. And may the State Department intervene on his behalf to have his life spared much as they did on behalf of the hikers arrested in Iran and the woman, Sakineh Ashtiani, accused of adultery there who was also scheduled to be executed but ultimately spared due to international pressure.
Basic freedoms still go wanting in Iran. Let's pray that America will again step up to the plate in the name of basic human rights and dignity.
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While Iranian laws concerning apostasy are horrible, this guy has an easy way out really - just recant and live to fight another day.
Making a martyr out of yourself certainly doesn't inspire me to anything. But I find this willingness of very religious people to prove their devoutness by getting killed for their faith rather disturbing.
Big difference is that the hikers are US citizens and thus State Department has clear grounds to get involved. Not so with the Iranian cleric who could get out of his bind by just saying these magic words "There is no god but God and Mohammad is the messenger of God".
As far as Ashtiani, you are forgetting that she also murdered her husband. Where was the outcry when two men (who by the way did not also murder their wives!) were stoned in Iran in 2009? The campaign against Ashtiani's execution is purely a feminist one, nothing more.
More likely it's because Americans just love pizza :)
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More likely though, this online Zogby poll is a fluke, an outlier. Look at all the other recent polls. All the other September polls have Cain firmly in the single digits (except for another online Zogby poll which had him at 12%) and now he is supposed to be the clear leader with 28%? Yeah right!
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/222139/20110929/iranian-pastor-sentenced-to-death.htm
http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2011/09/29/cains-rise-dispells-theory-the-media-made-it-a-two-man-race/