20 years' jail for "errors" in Koran translation
We read:
"An Afghan court has sentenced an ex-journalist and a mullah to 20 years in prison each for publishing a translation of the Koran alleged to contain errors, friends and media rights groups said today. Afghan and international media rights organisations condemned the sentences handed down yesterday and called on President Hamid Karzai to intervene.
Former journalist Ahmed Ghous Zalmai was arrested in November trying to escape into Pakistan as religious clerics and parliament were in an uproar about a Dari-language version of the Muslim holy book he had published.
Mullah Qari Mushtaq, who was sentenced with him, had approved the version which other clerics and parliamentarians claimed contained errors and misunderstandings about issues such as homosexuality and adultery. Critics also complained the book did not include the original Arabic text as required by Islamic law.
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There are all sorts of debates among Bible scholars about the best translation of certain scriptural passages but the debate is carried on in a much more mature way than the childish fearfulness we see above. One is allowed to seek the truth in the text itself in Christian circles but in Muslim circles it seems that what the dominant faction says must not be questioned.
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Christians have not always been so refined as implied. Indeed, in a few small parts of the world, today, they have been known to be brutal.
However, as a major world religion Islam (as a whole) is taking its damn time in developing discourse rather punishment
"good - the more Muslims in jail (or dead) for whatever reason the better"
Roger That, anon!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0915/breaking18.htm
Sorry, but the preceding post didn't show the entire website address.
So here it is:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0915/breaking18.htm
Can't get the entire website ton this comment page (?) so here's the story:
SIX FOUND GUILTY ON'JIHAD' CHARGES IN AUSTRALIA
An Australian jury found a Muslim cleric and five of his followers guilty today of planning to stage a "violent jihad" in Melbourne in 2005 to force Australian troops out of Iraq.
But the jury in Australia's biggest terrorism trial acquitted four other Muslim men and could not decide on the fate of two others after deliberating for four weeks, court officials said.
The prosecutor told the Victoria state Supreme Court that the group had planned to attack a grand final football match in Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, attended by 97,000 fans. The attack did not take place.
The jury heard that Muslim cleric Abdul Benbrika (48), and his followers planned the bomb attack on an Australian Football League (AFL) grand final, but security raids on the homes of some members forced the group to change its target.
Australia has never suffered a peacetime attack on home soil, but more than 90 Australians were killed in bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali since 2002.
Benbrika was found guilty of leading and being a member of an unnamed terrorist body, while his five followers were guilty of being members of a terrorist group.
All 12 men were charged with being members of an unnamed terrorist organisation and planning to use explosives or weapons for an undisclosed terrorist act, with the intention of coercing a government or intimidating the public.
via: Reuters
"The fact is there have been brutal Christians in the world even recently..."
I'm still waiting for your example.
Western nations that allow their deadliest enemy, (radical Islam) an enemy that has as it's only goal the total destruction of the West, to freely walk among their people deserve everything they get.
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