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Title: Youcef Nadarkhani Executed: Christian Pastor Hanged in Iran for Being Christian (Hoax article)
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Blue Star Chronicles
URL Source: http://bluestarchronicles.com/2012/ ... d-in-iran-for-being-christian/
Published: Mar 3, 2012
Author: Blue Star Chronicles
Post Date: 2012-03-03 18:08:27 by A K A Stone
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Youcef Nadarkhani has been executed in Iran. He is the Christian pastor who has been imprisoned and found guilty by the courts in Iran of being a Christian. Now he’s been executed in spite of international appeals to spare his life. He was hanged today.
Youcef Nadarkhani was arrested in 2009 for being a Christian in a muslim country – specifically Iran. The 34-year-old father and husband was charged with refusing to convert to Islam. He was given the opportunity to renounce his Christian religion and refused, resulting is his condemnation and sentence to death by hanging.
There is breaking news that he has been put to death by hanging because of his refusal to renounce his Christian religion and acceptance of islam.
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Iran is the real Bastard State. I shall rejoice when Israel destroys the Islamic Regime. bluestarchronicles.com/20...pastor-youcef-nadarkhani/ We’ve told you before about the imprisonment in Iran of Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. He has been in prison in Iran since 2009 and under threat of execution for refusing to convert to Islam. Now Iran is moving closer to executing Pastor Nadarkhani after offering him another chance to convert. Read about it below. Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Under Shari’a Islamic law, a Christian must be offered three opportunities to convert to Islam before he is executed for apostasy. It seems the clock is ticking for the 34-year-old Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. From The Jerusalem Post: Iran’s security officials recently delivered a book on Islam to Nadarkhani, Fox News said. He is in prison Rasht on the Caspian Sea coast. The Iranian officials told “him they would be back to discuss the material and hear his opinion,” according to the report. Fox cited “sources close to the case.” David Parsons, spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday the new development is “very troubling.” There need to be “three attempts to make him convert to Islam before they can kill him,” Parsons said. He cited Shari’a Islamic law as the basis for the threeattempts rule. Iran “is going through the motions” and “trying to do it in a very public way for the Muslim world and maybe, in their mind, thinking they can placate the West. It is outrageous,” said Parsons, who is a contributing editor to The Jerusalem Post Christian Edition. The case “should be an eye-opener for world leaders,” he said. “They should know what Islam teaches in terms of ‘inferior religions’ like Judaism and Christianity.” Fox News wrote that it secured “a digital copy of the book given to Nadarkhani, a 300-page compilation entitled Beshaarat-eh Ahdein, meaning ‘Message of the Two Eras,’ referring to the New and Old Testaments. Through various narratives, the book claims Christianity is a fabrication and attempts to establish the superiority of Islam.” Parsons said it “needs to be a priority to hold the Iranian regime accountable. Governments, even Muslim governments, should not be allowing this. How can anyone find this acceptable this day?” Present Truth Ministries has campaigned since 2009 for Nadarkhani’s release and works to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East. “We cannot wait another moment, we have to contact our elected officials,” the USbased organization urges on its website in connection with Nadarkhani. Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, an authority on minority groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran, told the Post by phone from Berlin on Sunday that the book given to Nadarkhani, Beshaarat-eh Ahdein, is “religious indoctrination.” There is “no freedom of opinion or religion in Iran,” he said. The Iranian regime has been closing newspapers and “there is no freedom of conscience” in the Islamic Republic. The book argues against the Judaism and Christianity, as well as against Bahais and Zoroastrians, Wahdat-Hagh, a senior fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels, wrote in a followup e-mail. “The fact that Mr. Nadarkhani was given this book makes clear that it does not deal with freedom of conscience, which does not exist in Iran, rather it deals with propaganda…,” he said. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader in Iran, has reacted to pressure regarding Nadarkhani’s case, and Khamenei has the authority to vacate the death penalty sentence against the pastor, Wahdat-Hagh added. “This case shows that Iran does not seek dialogue with Christians, rather it wants to convince Christians of the correctness of converting to Islam,” he said. Surely no one believes that they won’t do it.
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