WGNNews Note: This man may die because he believes Islam followers should have the right to believe what they want about the Islam teaching. Instead of being told what they are to believe. They want the  same freedom the Christian Faith has, that has made it so diversified. They would then be able to believe what they want.

Profile: Iranian academic facing death
Thursday, 28 November, 2002, 08:50 GMT

Professor Hashem Aghajari, the Iranian academic sentenced to death for apostasy, is a disabled war veteran and member of a leading reformist movement

A lecturer in history at Tarbiat Moddaress University in Tehran, Professor Aghajari enraged conservatives in an address in June in which he said that Muslims should not uncritically follow the line laid down by Islamic clerics "like monkeys".

He questioned why clerics alone had the right to interpret Islam.

In addition to the death penalty, he was sentenced to eight years' internal exile in remote areas of Iran and banned from teaching for 10 years