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Iranian court jails over 52 Sufi Muslims |
2006-05-05 |
![]() Some 1,000 Sufis were arrested in February during clashes which broke out after authorities ordered the closure of a house of worship used by mystical Sufis in the central seminary city of Qom. Most of them were later released. "Each of them has been sentenced to a one year jail term, some fines and 74 lashes," Farshid Yadollahi, their lawyer, was quoted by the Kargozaran newspaper as saying. The court in the city of Qom found the Sufis, who were free on bail, guilty of a range of crimes including disobeying police orders and disturbing public order, said the lawyer, who also has been sentenced by the court. "I and another lawyer of this case have also been sentenced to a one year jail term and 74 lashes," Yadollahi said. "We have also been banned from practicing law for five years." |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 Can't allow those Sufis to practice tolerance...that'd be UnIslamic. |
Posted by: imoyaro 2006-05-05 13:51 |
#3 Baliff, what are the charges? Not Muslim enough, your homor. Guilty. Next. |
Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-05 09:19 |
#2 Wikipedia is Waqf territorry from sheer numbers of islamist pressence. Fine example tolerance shown in persecuting their own co-religionists. Pure perversion, hole-ier than holy. |
Posted by: Duh! 2006-05-05 03:34 |
#1 Interesting note: the Wikipedia entry for Sufism has been vandalized. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-05 00:13 |