30 September 2011

Why Are British Muslim Leaders Silent About Yusuf Nadarkhani's Death Sentence?

Is anyone else deafened by the silence of Britain's self-styled Islamic community leaders? I say this in the context of the impending death of Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Christian who is an apostate living in a nation that seems to have lost leave of its senses.

This is despite the fact that the Iranian constitution guarantees the rights of minority religious groups.

Like many I have, in the past, referred to the War on Terror as a clash of civilisations. For that to be true, of course, those jihadists and their fundamentalist fellow-travellers would need to be civilised, instead of believing in the subjugation of women, criminalising homosexuality, stoning adulterers and underage sex in their warped effort to take the world back to some 7th century idyll. [Dale & Co] Read more