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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:15 PM
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Iran says no execution order for apostate Youssef Nadarkhani
"Youssef Nadarkhami, the Iranian born Muslim who converted to Christianity, has been found guilty of security charges and running a brothel but no sentence has yet been passed. The Iranian judiciary deny he is subject to an execution order.

Iran’s Press TV has reported that the Iranian judiciary has not issued an execution order for Muslim born Christian convert Youssef Nadarkhani. In the face of growing international condemnation over plans to execute Nadarkhani for apostasy, the judiciary appears to have changed its position.

According to the American Thinker, Nadarkhani was first arrested in 2009 on charges of apostasy and then sentenced to death in 2010 for refusing to denounce his Christian faith. He was then removed from death row awaiting appeal. Appearing before the 11th branch of Iran’s Gilan Provincial Court in September, Nadarkhani was asked by judges to repent his beliefs. He refused to do so and was quoted by the Washington Post saying

“Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?”


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312394#ixzz1ZxL5w4N0

Thank God.

Thank -God-.

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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:19 PM
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1. Instead of thanking god, why not thank the people that actually made this happen.
You know, the ones that lobbied and put pressure on Iran to do the right thing?


Please do not discount the ACTUAL work done by ACTUAL people. Thank them.
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:20 PM
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2. I don't. I thank the Christians who lobbied to protect him
Being a Christian in Muslim countries is scary.

We need to protect all of our believers.

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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:23 PM
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5. No, you thanked god, and no one else.
Let me refresh your memory. Your words..

Thank God.

Thank -God-.






Did you write where you thanked anyone else in invisible ink or something?
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:24 PM
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6. .....Sorry I forgot to include the legion of atheists
who jumped to defend him - oh wait.

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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:25 PM
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7. Yeah, you thanked everyone but them. Oh, wait, you thanked no one.
no one but god. Not a single person on the planet.
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:26 PM
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8. i JUST THANKED THEM in the above post.
Seriously. -read-.

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:29 PM
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 08:35 PM
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11. Just believers?
It's OK to execute non-believers then?
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 08:36 PM
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12. God no. n/t
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 08:38 PM
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13. Just keep in mind...
it was believers that were going to execute him. Not atheists.
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:22 PM
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3. So international pressure had nothing to do with it?
The clear distaste that many in the world have for harsh theocracy, known by theocrats as "godly government", had nothing to do with this man's survival?
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:23 PM
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4. See above. I thank anyone(mostly Christians) who stood up for this man. n/t
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:33 PM
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10. And I disagree with your premise that it was mostly Christians.
Edited on Wed Oct-05-11 07:35 PM by darkstar3
The entire international community, including other Muslims, was pissed about this.

Also, as was pointed out, your OP said "Thank God" twice, emphatically, as if it were only through his divine intervention that this happened.
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