2
years jail sentence for criticizing Islam
AzarMajedi
2005/10/25
Islamic
state of
Afghanistan
has sentenced Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, executive manager of “Women’s
Right” journal to two years imprisonment for criticizing Islam. This
is an outrageous trial, an outright violation of freedom of speech and
women’s rights.
People
of
Afghanistan
have been victimized and terrorized by political Islam for over two
decades. The fall of Taliban brought some hopes to women and to freedom
loving people that atrocities committed daily by these religious thugs
will be stopped and people will enjoy freedom and women could throw
their veils and participate in social life. This hope was soon
shattered, by the plans of the
US
and the West to help bring another Islamic-tribal government into power.
The formation of a new
Islamic state, with the tribal constitution assembly, were opposed by
libertarian, and progressive organizations. Objections were dismissed,
and atrocities, violation of women’s rights, kidnapping and raping of
women and young girls, violation of human rights, and basic civil
liberties continued.
This
sentence must be condemned by all women’s right activists, freedom
loving people, humanitarian organizations and secularists. We should
fight against political Islam in any corner of the world. We stopped
Sharia courts in
Canada
; we should topple the Islamic states in the
Middle East
.
Azar
Majedi
Chair
of Organisation for Women’s Liberation
