Death decree against Nobel prize laureate?

[tannybogus]

Tehran (AsiaNews) - The life of Shirin Ebadi, Nobel peace prize winner in 2003, is in danger. Ebadi has been fearless in denouncing the oppression of human rights in her country. The alarm has been raised by Rooz, a website for Iranian exiles, which deduces it from the “charge” made a few days ago by the official news agency IRNA, saying that Ebadi and her daughter, a student at McGill University in Canada, have become members of the Bahai religion. The Bahai are considered a heretical Islamic group, and are persecuted.

The accusation, according to Rooz, is a sham set up to disguise the intention of having the woman killed, or at least of frightening her to the point of making her stop her activities in favor of human rights, or leave the country.

The explanation has been given on the basis of the Iranian criminal code. Article 226 stipulates that the killing of a person is subject to ‘Ghesas’, or retaliatory punishment, “only if the victim did not deserve death based on the Sharia, and if the ‎victim deserved death the murderer must prove that in court, according to set criteria”. According to Islamic law, apostasy, or abandoning Islam, is worthy of death. And her conversion to the Bahai faith puts Ebadi in this position.

As if that were not enough, a supplement to article 295 in the same criminal code stipulates that if a person kills another because he suspects that the victim deserves death, and this is proven in court, the killing is considered accidental homicide, and the author must only pay “blood money” to the victim’s family. But if the killer proves that the victim deserved death, he doesn’t even have to pay the “blood money”, and will not face any penalty.

http://worldivided.com/2008/08/17/death-decree-for-nobel-laurea

[Glorfindel]

1. Proving once again that no good deed goes unpunished

How dare she conduct activities in favor of human rights? :puke: :sarcasm:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Sharia is not the Qur'an

and I don't recall any sura that said those who were of other faiths or those who changed faiths were to be killed. But then to the extremists in charge in Iran, Sufis are also heretics and have been persecuted.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Was Ebadi a Sufi?

The article only mentions that she is now Baha'i.