Marayam Namazie highlights the case of a man being prosecuted by Kurdish regional authorities for criticising Islam. Maryam Namazie blogs @ Nothing Is Sacred.
Update: Yousef Muhammad Ali’s trial has been delayed to 14 September 2015 to give the judge time to receive further documentation on his case.
Yousef Muhammad Ali, born in 1987, faces trial on 13 July in Iraqi Kurdistan for criticising Islam. Please take urgent action right away and write to the Kurdish regional authorities to drop charges and to arrest those who have threatened him instead.
Background
Yousef Muhammad Ali who spent many years studying Islam and Sharia law made a presentation in school on the Big Bang Theory. Islamists in his class instigated a fatwa against him. Also he faced threats when he criticised Islam on Facebook. Upon receiving a number of death threats, he contacted the police and filed a grievance against a perpetrator. His case was sent to a public tribunal in Darbandikhan, which rather than address the threats to Yousef Muhammad Ali’s life, had him arrested. He was then transferred to Sulaymaniyah jail. On 15th December 2014, his sentence was renewed until the 22nd December 2014. After campaigning by rights activists and journalists in Kurdistan and abroad he was released on bail on 17 December 2014. His hearing date is on 13 July 2015.
Please Support Him By Writing To The Kurdish Authorities And Urging Them To Release Him.
You can write to the below:
Kurdistan Parliament Email & Contact number:
parliamentsite@perleman.org
00964662230242
Ministry of Justice Email & Contact number:
dad@mojkurdistan.com
00964662551983
Kurdistan Regional Government Email:
info@dmi.krg.org
admin@dmi.krg.org
Please also copy me in the emails so I can forward it to his solicitor: maryamnamazie@gmail.com.
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Whilst I welcome these individual appeals for people being persecuted by Shariah Law,they are just a sticking plaster solution for a gaping wound (caused by the Islamic scimitar). Much better would be to find some merciful solution within Shariah that can then be exported elsewhere (good luck with that!), failing that banning Shariah in whatever form that it seeks to exert itself on civic life. (They will try to claim Shariah is also praying 5 times a day,but that isnt the civic encrouchment that is truly the abomination of our age).
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