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never been there · 02-08-2003, 04:38 PM

The latest on Hashem Aghajari, from the BBC Online

My hopes come from statments like:

Quote:

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

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Hopefully they're not seriously thinking of executing him, then banishing him from Teheran. But killing him would be a show of strength by the hardline fundies.

sakrilege · 02-09-2003, 12:24 PM

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He questioned why clerics alone had the right to interpret Islam

This seems like what Martin Luther was expressing about the catholic church.

never been there · 02-09-2003, 06:19 PM

Yeah, it seems like you can say what you like about the deity concerned, but if you mess with the authority of the bishops/mullahs/etc. it's called heresy/apostasy/whatever is a capital crime.

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02-09-2003, 06:19 PM	#3
never been there Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB Posts: 2,144	Yeah, it seems like you can say what you like about the deity concerned, but if you mess with the authority of the bishops/mullahs/etc. it's called heresy/apostasy/whatever is a capital crime.

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