Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The Religion of Toleration; Iran.

On the 9th of September last what passes* for a parliament in Iran voted in a law that made it a capital offence for a man to renounce Islam. Women get a life sentence. The vote was carried by 196 with 7 opposing.

*To be a member of the Iranian "parliament " you have to be a Muslim and not only that but a Muslim approved by a Supreme Council of Ayatollahs. About as democratic an assembly of zombies as anything that Joe Stalin ever cobbled together.

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