by Uzay
Bulut • June 2nd
- According
to the Koran and the recorded sayings (hadith) and biographies (sira)
of Islam's founder, "To leave Islam, to insult Muhammad or Allah, to
deny the existence of Allah, to be sarcastic about Allah's name, to deny
any verse of the Koran" or to commit other acts of blasphemy are all
punishable by death.
- More
alarming is that these pressures and bans come not only from governments.
Many of the people in the countries mentioned above also appear
enthusiastically to support strict or even deadly blasphemy and apostasy
laws.
- According
to a 2013 Pew survey, overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many regions
-- Southeast Asia (84%), South Asia (78%), the Middle East and North
Africa (78%), and Central Asia (62%) -- favor making sharia, or Islamic
law, the official law of the land. According to sharia, blasphemy and
apostasy are punishable by death.
Critics of Turkey's government and Islam continue being targeting by the
country's authorities.
On May 17, Turkish photographer Fırat Erez, a former supporter of
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party, was arrested in the city
of Antalya after saying "Islam is immoral" on his Twitter account.
"This is not hate. It is a decision," he wrote. "Islam is
immoral. His Prophet, Allah, his disciples could not protect it. Islam has not overcome
the moral barrier. It cannot. You cannot find the truth by bending over five
times a day. Plain, clear and painful."
Erez was detained by Antalya police for "insulting religious
values" and "provoking hatred or hostility in one section of the public
against another section".
Twitter has since suspended Erez's account, and those who visit his
Twitter feed today only see the following notification: "Twitter suspends
accounts which violate the Twitter Rules".
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