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The death penalty in Iran Youcef Nadarkhani is an affront to universal moral values ??and a disservice to Muslims

In 1948, most Muslim-majority nations of the world have signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Article 18, "the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion ", which includes basically the" freedom to change religion or belief. "Pakistani Foreign Minister, then, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, wrote:" Belief is a matter of conscience and consciousness can not be forced. "

: 14 predominantly Muslim nations to convert away from Islam illegal, many - including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Sudan - to impose the death penalty against the infidels. The so-called Republic of Iran has sentenced to death by hanging of a Christian pastor, born to Muslim parents, for apostasy. At the time of writing, Youcef Nadarkhani, head of a home network of Christian churches in Iran was sentenced to death for refusing to recant and to convert to Islam.

The decision to Nadarkhani unlikely. For starters, the decision of the judges in the city of Rasht house pastor a year ago, and confirmed by the Supreme Court of the country in June, is not only a flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but Iran's own constitution. Article 23 is clear: "The investigation into the beliefs of individuals is prohibited, and no one may be molested or simply to hold a certain belief."

leniency applications of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Foreign Minister of the International in the UK and amnesty, among others, have fallen on deaf ears in Tehran. Meanwhile, the silence of the Muslim world - particularly the Muslim organizations in the UK, usually voluble and self-proclaimed "community leaders" - was shameful. The irony is that I have not found one Muslim should present a believer who loses, adjust or abandon their faith should be hanged. However, few Muslims are willing to stand up against frustrating such medieval barbarism. We mumbled an apology, look away.

does not work either. Another Iranian ayatollah end and high-profile ally of Khomeini, Murtaza Muttahari once wrote about the futility of any and all measures to compel the belief that the Muslim (or ex-Muslims!), Claiming it was impossible to force someone to maintain the level of rational faith inspired required by the religion of Islam. "You can not beat a child to solve an arithmetic problem," proclaimed Muttahari. "His mind and thought must be free to resolve. The Islamic faith is something like that. "Muslims must ask themselves: Do we love God so weak and in need that requires us to force our worship perfect? ??Our religion is so fragile and vulnerable who can not tolerate no absolute rejection why we are silent as an innocent Christian is sentenced to death in the name of Islam? To hang a man for refusing to believe in Islam is theologically and morally unjustifiable. It is not only anti- Islamic, but anti-Islamic