Tabari 9:69 “Killing unbelievers is a small matter to us…”
“They’re basically seen as sinners. They’re looked upon as Christians and Jews by the fundamental Muslims. So they’re tortured because they’re sinners.”
“It is not a cruelty to kill blasphemers, rather blasphemy itself is such an enormous brutality that the one who commits it neither has got a right to live in this world nor is there any pardon for the blasphemer,” Daily Jasarat quoted Mr Hammadi as saying.
ABC/By Jennifer Macey on a tip from Mullah
An Iraqi asylum seeker being detained on Christmas Island says he is living in fear that he will be targeted by other detainees because of his religious beliefs.
In Iraq, life is getting harder for believers in faiths other than Islam.
At the end of last month, an attack on Iraq’s dwindling Christian community left 58 people dead and Al Qaeda has warned that more killings would follow.
Another victimised minority are the Sabian Mandaean, whose followers revere John the Baptist.
Some have fled to Australia and now a Mandaean detainee on Christmas Island fears that the persecution has followed him here.
Salah Azuhari, 45, fled from his village in southern Iraq because of religious persecution.
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