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Posted 8:15 P.M.
: December 11, 2002
FollowUp on Our Story Dated
November 28, 2002
BBC & WGNNews
Profile: Iranian academic facing death
WGNNews.org Commentary By Kenneth Martin
Following up on this story and backing
up to his charges on this page of "
renouncing Islam on 7 November ".
I feel
sorry for this man for wanting the right to decide what he wants
to believe. Not only can he not do it, but he is going to be put
to death for wanting it. How wonderfully blessed people are that
live in a free world and have the right to choose which God they
want to serve. There is only one True God, The God Of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jocob. If people want to choose themself a God and
Call Him anything they want to, that should be a persons choice.
Every living person should have the right to choose who they
believe God is, without being told who they have to serve. In
America if a person wants to choose satan as their god, that is
allowed, but that person should never be allowed to hold a US
Government Job, because The God Of Abraham, Isaac, and Jocob is
the God, The United States Of America Serves. No name in the
United States Of America, should ever be lifted as high as the
name of " Jesus ".
If the Iran
students decide they would like to become Christians, would they
be put to Death Also?
Iranian students clash with hardliners
Monday, 18 November, 2002,
17:38 GMT
Thousands of
Iranian students demanding political reform have clashed with
hardline militia groups in the capital, Tehran
Witnesses
said about 5,000 students gathered at the Sharif Technical
University campus to protest against the death sentence passed
down to pro-reform academic Hashem Aghajari earlier this month.
He was found guilty of renouncing Islam on 7 November
after saying in a speech that each generation should
re-interpret aspects of Islam rather than blindly follow
religious leaders.
Last Friday, hardliners held counter-protests where about
1,000 people called for his execution, many of them dubbing him
"Iran's Salman Rushdie".
Cracks open in Iran judiciary
Tuesday,
10 December, 2002, 18:01 GMT
Thousands of students demonstrated on Saturday
A senior Iranian justice official has offered his
resignation in protest against the death sentence passed on a
liberal academic, Hashem Aghajari, for blasphemy
The
official, Hussain Mir-Mohammad Sadeghi, who is the spokesman for
the judiciary, said the ruling has damaged Iran
In an interview with Iran's official news agency, Mr
Mir-Mohammad Sadeghi criticised what he called the growing
politicisation of the Iranian judiciary.
He said the death sentence against Mr Aghajari had
catastrophic consequences for the judiciary and the country as a
whole.
Such an open broadside coming from within the conservative
faction itself may mean that hard-line leaders may find it
difficult to preserve their unity in the face of serious crisis,
BBC Iran analyst Sadeq Saba says.
Mr Aghajari's sentence is now under judicial review
following an order from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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