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by Soeren Kern
• November 26, 2014 at 5:00 am
The
Supreme Court's ruling is eerily similar to an international blasphemy
law being promoted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of
57 Muslim countries dedicated to implementing a worldwide ban on
"negative stereotyping of Islam."
Firasat's
lawyers say that they have presented the court with irrefutable evidence
that the charges against Firasat were fabricated by Indonesian
authorities, but that this evidence has been ignored by a judiciary that
is under political pressure from the Spanish government to get rid of Firasat
once and for all.
"Even
if Indonesians do not punish me for death, how will I be protected from
Muslims who consider me a blasphemer and an apostate? Will I be able to
get a fair trial when the judges, prosecution, fake witnesses and
lawyers, everybody will be a Muslim?" — Imran Firasat
Firasat
said it was never his intention to provoke the Spanish government, but
that he felt it was his duty to "warn of the dangers of not
understanding or stopping what is known as Jihad."
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Left: Imran Firasat and his family. Right: The
poster for "The Innocence of Islamic Jihad," a video produced
by Firasat in 2013.
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A Spanish court is deliberating the fate of Imran Firasat, an
ex-Muslim from Pakistan who faces imminent deportation because the
Spanish government has deemed his criticism of Islam to be a threat to
national security.
Firasat's lawyers, however, argue that sending him back to Pakistan
or any other Muslim country would be the equivalent of a death sentence
because Islamic Sharia law prescribes the penalty of death for Muslims
who commit apostasy.
Firasat, now 36, obtained political asylum in Spain in 2006 because
of death threats against him in both Pakistan and Indonesia for leaving
the Islamic faith and marrying a non-Muslim.
by Abigail R. Esman
• November 26, 2014 at 4:00 am
The
first national Muslim party in the Netherlands is now a fact.
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Seleuk Ozturk (left) and Tunahan Kuzu (right) speak
to the media, November 2014. (Image source: NPO video screenshot)
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The Netherlands, that country that so bravely pioneered movements
such as gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana, seems on the
brink of pioneering yet another: the official Islamization of Europe's
parliaments.
That, anyway, would seem to be the wish of Tunahan Kuzu and Seleuk
Ozturk, the founders of the country's newest political party, which they
established only a few days ago after splitting from the Partij van de
Arbeid (PvdA), or Labor Party, in a dispute over Dutch Turkish
organizations and the Dutch Turkish community at large. Although their
party, Group Kuzu/Ozturk, has not yet been entirely defined, its creators
describe it in sweeping terms as "the party the Netherlands longs
for," aimed at promoting "a society in which everyone is
treated equally."
Except that does not seem to be what they actually have in mind.
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