If they choose to do so, Muslim authorities can charge anyone who does not affirm the Islamic faith with “making false claims in religious fields.” The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) routinely traffics in a variant of this in the United States, charging those who say that they’re not Muslim or don’t believe in Muhammad with “hate.” And it works: they’ve destroyed many a career and ruined many a reputation.
“Brothers face ‘propaganda’ charges under amended Article 500,” Article 18, January 30, 2024:
Two brothers arrested before Christmas and detained for a month have been charged with “deviant educational or propaganda activities contrary to the holy Islamic law by making false claims in religious fields”.
Alireza and Amir Nourmohammadi were arrested in Karaj, near Tehran, on 11 December, alongside fellow house-church member Milad Goodarzi, as well as Alireza’s son, though the Nourmohammadi family’s identities were not made public at the time.
Milad and Alireza’s son were released on bail later that same day, but the two brothers remained in detention until their release on bail on 10 January, when they were each forced to submit approximately $3,000.
Meanwhile, several other families associated with the same house-church were summoned and interrogated regarding their faith and religious activities.
Alireza and Amir have been charged under the controversially amended Article 500 of the Islamic Penal Code, the second time Alireza has been charged under the new law, having only been released in March last year after 16 months in Karaj Central Prison on similar charges.
Alireza served those 16 months alongside Milad and another house-church member, Amin Khaki, all of whom had previously spent time in prison, back in 2019, following charges of “propaganda against the state”.
Then in 2021, following the introduction of the new Article 500, Alireza, Milad and Amin became the first known example of house-church members being charged, and later sentenced, under the amendments, which were labelled “a full-on attack on the right to freedom of religion and belief” by an NGO focused on freedom of expression.
Article18’s director, Mansour Borji, meanwhile warned that the amendments would “bring more ambiguity to an already ambiguous set of charges … and decrease the chance that a judge may act in a more tolerant way towards house-church members, by providing greater scope within the law to bring charges on these vaguely-defined grounds”.
Tatanka says
There’s nothing holy about islamic law, It’s all satanic.
janet says
Sadly there are those who are not living in the USA but want to act as IF they do and then the authorities of Islam catch and hold them on charges that of course are out LIES.
CaIR can screw up so many innocents you would believe the LIE.
iF WE had a government that would put its foot down and made the evil trators and criminals
leave then things would go better!
Brenda says
Amen
tharmon says
Being a deviant to that government probably means being against rape and murder.
FYI says
If it is any help to such persecuted Christians in Iran..
allah actually says to muhammed in koran 10:94 that if in doubt,check with the BIBLE people.
allah leaves the door open…
It might buy some time:muslims must accept the koran surely and by checking the Bible are you not following allah’s advice?
koran 10:94 allah’s Open Door…..
Keith O says
I’d pay money to watch the reaction of the mudslime interrogator if that was said.
They would lose their collective shit and charge them with heresy or something like that.
FYI says
Actually the muslim “holy men” could not say that koran 10:94 is “contrary to holy islamic law” since islamic law depends on accepting the koran to be true!
muslims cannot say the koran itself is teaching “contary to holy islamic law”.
So even if charged with heresy etc:i would respond that i am only doing what allah says to do and the interrogators are surely obliged to do the same.If they are muslims they are obliged to follow allah’s advice.No doubt thet would become enraged on being told that:but shouldn’t a good muslim obey allah?
allah is OK with checking with the Bible folk but the “holy men” of islam don’t want muslims to know/do that as then they would be exposed as frauds.
allah confirms the Bible{koran 3:3,koran 10:94} BUT the Bible shows the koran to be false.
Why else is the Bible banned in islamic countries?
The “holy men” of islam would lose all their power/authority over muslims.
It would be fun to be a fly on the wall!
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the subject of the persecution regarding the harassment and imprisonment and even torture of Christians of Iran further expose the intolerant brutal and murderous “mullah regime “ of Iran
First, it would be naive not to understand the those mullahs and ayatollahs didn’t have a hand in having their stooges , who are Islamic state police, the Revolutionary Guard s arrest so many Christians because those in power in the Islamic tyranny are ruthless and cruel.
Second, this is further proof that Islam is such a weak and fragile religion that the arrest of those few Christians was felt necessary by the ayatollah, mullah and imams of Iran. For those Muslim clerics are afraid that if the Iranian people even have a chance to examine and thus compare and contrast the Bible and the Quran the people of Iran might discover that the Bible of the super of those two books.
Since the foundation for the tyrannical regime of the Islamic “Republic” of Iran is based on the Quran, which is also the entire foundation for of Islam, the Muslim clerics fear that their power base might collapse. So the arrests and sentencing to death of Christians reveals extreme fear those Muslim clerics have of the Bible, For this also show that those Muslim clerics in power in that “mullahs regime” of Iran will use .the Islamic state police and their tools to stop Christians and keep the Iranian people in in ignorance of the Bible and in the darkness of Islam.
Third, those mullahs and ayatollahs and imams of Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.]
All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teachers who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.
Walter Sieruk says
There has to be something wrong with a religion that, even in modern times, requires that its followers use savage murderous violence of brutal force against people who are of another faith, In case Christians.
The violent and deadly might is used to oppose Christian’s does reveal that the religion of Islam doesn’t have an rational any sound Bible based reasons to uphold it. Likewise, such cruel malicious violence engaged in by jihad-minded Muslims further shows that a firm belief in Islam isn’t based on reason or logic but instead malice-filled emotions and murderous feelings of hate.
The bloody violent and deadly essence of Islam against Christians, and people of other religions as Judaism. Is seen in the instructions found in the Qu ran. For example in Surah 9:123 it reads “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you…”
Likewise in Surah 47; 4 instructs “When you encounter the disbelieves strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
In addition. it’s a good idea not to take at face value the claim that the word Islam means “peace.” For example, the ENCARTA WORLD ENGLISH DICTIONARY copyright 1999 defines Islam as “submission” based on the word “aslama” meaning “he surrendered.” Given that long time definition, it’s very odd to so very fast after 9/11 the meaning of the word Islam was changed from “submission” to “peace.”
It’s very well known that if the police are questioning someone and he changes his story something is wrong. Nevertheless, when it comes to Islam no one gets suspicious of the change. The jihadists brag that they will win the war against the West by using the Western ignorance and naive gullible mindset on the subject of Islam against us. It seems that they do have some basis in that claim since so many Westerners are beguiled by the Muslim disinformation campaign.
Gurek says
The holy islamic law is the worst thing that happened to humanity. Even the laws of regular bandits and pirates were morally far superiour to the islamic law. This is not to approve banditry or piracy of course but even they had a some decence in them since they did not believe in a god named allah who sanctions this evil sh*t. But those who 100% FULLY believe in allah, the quran, the hadith, and the sirah will do the unimaginable.
somehistory says
A Christian is not surprised by persecution. Jesus warned that Christians would be persecuted, some even to death. So, He said, “Count the cost.”
These men and women have “counted the cost” and have found whatever comes their way, it’s worth what they will receive as a reward for their faith.
Christians everywhere can pray for these ones to remain faithful and steadfast.
Peter wrote that everyone persecuted for following Jesus, knows that there are others in various places who are going through the same things.
So very many places; so much persecution, mostly by mozlums intent on subjugating the entire earth to their false god and fake prophet.