Christian converts faith death under Islamic law

Where's the outrage at Muslim assaults on Christianity?

Via the Jawa Report, ASSIST News Service reports that:

Christians in Iran have expressed great fears for the life of pastor Hamid Pourmand, a lay leader in a church and a convert from Islam, who will appear before an Islamic court next week to face charges of apostasy. If found guilty he is likely to face the death penalty.

That's not an idle threat. Further on we read that:

In the last 16 years three Iranian church leaders have been charged with apostasy and found guilty. All three were sentenced to death. Pastor Hussein Soodman was hanged in 1989. Deacon Maher already had a noose around his neck when he signaled his willingness to recant and was released after signing a paper to that effect in 1992. Pastor Mehdi Dibaj was condemned to death in December 1993. He was released three weeks later after a strong international outcry, only to be found murdered six months later.

Imagine the outcry if a Christian nation made it a crime for a Christian to convert to another religion? But that's what Islamic countries do. Under Sharia law the penallty is death. In Iran, they execute converts to Christianity.

Along the same lines, it is perfectly acceptable for Muslims to build mosques in Christian countries and convert their citizens to Islam. Yet Christians cannot build churches in Iran or Saudi Arabia and most other Muslim countries. Christians cannot preach the gospel of Christ to Muslims.

What is just as sickening is how mainstream Christian churches pander to Islamic terrorists. Take the Presbyterian Church and its divestiture in companies that operate in Israel. How can they can take the side of terrorists whose sole aim is to wipe out every Jew in the Holy Land?

What will it take for Christians to realize that radical Islam has declared war on the West and its values? An Iranian nuclear attack on Israel? Another dozen 9/11s? A few more hundred thousand black Christians murdered by Muslims in Sudan or Nigeria?

Even the late Pope seemed more interested in appeasing Islam instead of defending Christians against Muslim outrages. The time to apologize for the Crusades is the day Islam apologizes for the forcible conversion of millions of Christians and Jews to Islam and allows their descendents the freedom to convert back.

Disclosure: I'm not religious. In my youth I was a nominal Presbyterian.

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