Because really. Who are we to judge? CNS, “Troubled by Growth of Christianity, Iranian Regime Destroys Bibles”:
A Shi’ite cleric affiliated with the Iranian regime has warned about the “danger” of Christianity spreading in the Islamic republic. This come amid reports of an anti-Christianity propaganda campaign and the seizure of thousands of Bibles.
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Last week, Mohabat reported that authorities had seized 6,500 pocket-sized Bibles in northwestern Iran. It quoted a parliamentary advisor, Majid Abhari, as telling the Mehr news agency that Christian missionaries were out to deceive Iranians, particularly the youth.
“They have begun a huge campaign by spending huge sums and false propaganda for deviating the public,” Abhari said. “The important point in this issue that should be considered by intelligence, judicial and religious agencies is that all religions are strengthening their power to confront Islam, otherwise what does this huge number of Bibles mean?”
Mohabat recalled previous incidents of Bibles being seized, including one last February, when Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and security officials in a routine inspection of a bus near the Iran-Turkey border found 600 New Testaments, which they destroyed along with confiscated alcohol in a public burning.
A similar incident in the same area last October also saw officials seize and burn Bibles, it said.
In a third incident, in June 2010, Bibles were found in a town near the border with Iraq. Mohabat said the official IRGC Web site at the time accused the U.S. in neighboring Iraq of conspiring to smuggle Bibles into Iran.
The Barnabas Fund, an organization working with Christian minorities in Islamic societies, reports that Iranian authorities have been waging an anti-Christian propaganda campaign through state media in recent weeks.
“Last month, offensive caricatures depicting Christ and Christians were published in the [IRGC mouthpiece] magazine Javan,” it said.
“False and insulting stories about Christians have also appeared in government media. One such article that was published on the website Youth Online alleged that women evangelists were going into stores, using shopping as a pretext to enter into conversation with staff, and then suggesting sexual liaisons and insulting Islam.”
And? The Islamic culture certainly has the right to protect itself against any infidel insurrection — and frankly, we here in the west are in no position to understand that culture and shouldn’t be judging it using as our baseline the tenets of occidental rationalism and culture-specific notions of what comes to count as “inclusion.”
One man’s Bible Burner is another man’s freedom fighter, after all.
And no, that doesn’t mean we have any business publishing offensive (and by that, we me drawn by dogs and pigs) Mohammed cartoons in the West.
Christ. Show a little tolerance, won’t you? You filthy racists.
Isn’t this the usual routine while picking up groceries?
I wonder(not really) if these were people bitterly promising hellfire because one dude in Florida said he was going to burn one Koran as a protest?
Then here were those in the US saying the guy was a creep for protesting Islam in that way(essentially deifying the book). That poor bastard took way more abuse than your run of the mill American flag burner.
Anyway, this is no more than has been going on in China for generations, and somewhat less than our own military confiscating and burning all the bibles in Afghanistan.
Tehran has to scramble to keep up with the bunch in Washington…
Then here in the US were those saying…
Sorry.
Now you know why they have a problem with cucumbers.
Squash Zoroastrianism!
Heh, Sdferr, I was just about to say that no Zoroastrian was available for comment.
I could say that anyone not Muslim is in a pickle, though, to continue the vegetable theme.
Curcurbitate Baha’i!
oops, cucurbitate, I meant.
OT: by the way, bit the bullet and bought that Cold Steel San Mai Recon. Got the actual San Mai.
Looks like Amazon caught on. The same blade will now cost you over double what it was a few days ago.
Score!
I was just about to say that no Zoroastrian was available for comment.
That doesn’t mean we can’t encourage the Iranian youth to start downloading Jim Morrison though. Just to give the religious police something else to worry about.
Ready for a little bit of the old ultraviolence, eh?
I eagerly await word from our Masters of Tolerance on how we should address this issue…. still waiting….still waiting…
So what you’re telling us Jeff is, just because we’re facing TEOTWAWKI, doesn’t mean we can’t face it in style?
Ah, San Mai construction is great. I handled a Katana that was San Mai once. Of course cutting through tatami isn’t exactly the same as cutting through flesh. Congrats on the purchase, Jeff.
Now, you need a nice tactical AR-15 to go with your recon knife :)
Amazon isn’t even selling that knife any more.
I just get this feeling that the Israeli’s are going to “Color Their World” long before the Iranians have a snowball’s chance in hell of attacking Israel. Bibles or not…