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Spain to Deport Pakistani Refugee for Criticizing Islam
by Soeren Kern
• June 6, 2014 at 5:00 am
"Okay, you Muslims, use
violence, but we will continue to make films. One day, one of us will
lose." — Imran Firasat
Firasat argued that the
expression of his views about Islam fall within the constitutional rights of
free speech.
Two dissenting judges signed a
statement in which they ask whether the source of the danger to national
security is in the actions of Firasat or in the reactions of Islamic
fundamentalists.
Imran
Firasat and his family.
The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that a political refugee should be
deported because his criticism of Islam poses "a danger to the security
of Spain."
The May 30 ruling, which upholds an earlier decision by a lower court to
revoke the refugee status of a Pakistani ex-Muslim named Imran Firasat,
showcases how the fear of Muslim rage continues to threaten the exercise of
free speech in Europe.
Firasat obtained political asylum in Spain in October 2006 because of
death threats against him in both Pakistan and Indonesia for leaving the
Islamic faith and marrying a non-Muslim.
Spanish authorities, however, took measures to deport Firasat in
December 2012, after he released a one-hour amateur film entitled, "The
Innocent Prophet: The Life of Mohammed from a Different Point of View."
The movie, which was posted on YouTube, purports to raise awareness of the
dangers of Islam to Western Civilization.
Iran's Plan to Destabilize Egypt
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
• June 6, 2014 at 4:00 am
Iran is planning an offensive
against Egypt from the west and from the south.
The Iranian government has
long-term plans.
Then
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi embraces then Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad upon his arrival in Cairo on February 5, 2013. Ahmadinejad was
Iran's first leader to visit Egypt since the two countries cut diplomatic
relations in 1980. (Image source: Ahmadinejad official handout)
The Iranian regime's new enemy, it seems, is Egypt's President Abdel
Fattah Al-Sisi.
Iran's mullahs apparently fear Sisi's secular stance against Islamist
movements, and see him as an obstacle to Iran's future influence in the
Middle East.
According to the Jordan-based media outlet Al-Bawaba, Iran is determined
to put an end to Al-Sisi's rule by training the Libya-based Islamist group
known as the Free Egyptian Army [FEA]. The FEA is composed of both Egyptian
jihadists who went to fight in Syria during the rule of Egypt's former
President, the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, as well as other Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood militants who fled from Egypt to Libya after Morsi was removed
from power.
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