Iran's semi-official Fars new agency reported today that an Iranian man was hanged for apostasy, after attracting several disciples who apparently believed his claim to be God.
About 1980 years ago, a Jew was crucified in Jerusalem for the same thing, except that the Jews who condemned him called his sin "blasphemy".
The Iranian government is therefore waiting rather nervously to see what will happen the day after tomorrow!
Yesterday's hanging was decreed by Sharia law, the code which is strictly and severely enforced in Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries of the Middle East. Apostasy, murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Sharia, which has been Iran’s law since the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah.
The western-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a report earlier this month which calculated that Iran had executed an average of one person every eight hours since the start of the year. Let's see. That would be...ummm...about 90 so far, and the year has just begun.
Rights groups say Iran is second only to China in the number of executions it carries out, and puts more people per 1000 population to death than any other country. Iran routinely dismisses Western criticism of its justice system, saying it is implementing Islamic law.
Now militant Muslims in the USA and Canada would like to see Sharia law imported into our countries. Of course, they tell us, it would apply only to their religious community. In other words, they would hang only apostates from Islam, and stone to death only Muslim adulterers. So that's all right then.
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