Presently Hadi, 31, has started a hunger strike and wishes to fast until death.
At best, Hadi's joke on the penis of the Prophet was just a joke like any other, and there's nothing more to it. At worst, it's a silly remark from an 18-year-old immature teenager. In what kind of society would such a comment earn someone in life imprisonment?
Look, I am not religious, and I really don't care about the penises and vaginas of Gods and Goddesses, and their messengers. For all I know, Gods need to screw the Goddesses because that's how you keep the God-line going. Which holds equally true for their messengers, most of whom have fathered multiple children.
I know that the Hindus worship "Shiva Lingam", the "Penis of Lord Shiva" and feel quite happy about it. I know that there have been thousands of jokes on the penis of Jesus. Actually, there's a website called Jesus Penis and I don't think the Pope is after the people who maintain that website.
And I do know most religions could care less. The portraits of Hindu Goddesses are generally quite sexy and revealing and very much acceptable.
The Pope might not like the birth control pills and condoms but he's not worried about the arguments on the length of Jesus's penis.
The problem with Islam is not that it is habitually intolerant. The problem with Islam is the people, the likes of the Saudi Royals, the Taliban, and the mullahs in Tehran, who use Islam to further their own fascist agendas.
Sending someone to prison for life, for making a "silly" comment about the Prophet when he's 18, is wrong. It violates all the letters of the word "human".
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Cross-posting to DC for greater attention
2 - Q Bit
Thanks Aaman.
3 - dc~ac
what would you do if someone made a joke like that on you father or mother or someone very dear to you??
4 - Christopher Rose
I doubt very much that I'd sentence them to death or do much more than point out their insensitivity.
5 - STM
DC - AC wrote "what would you do if someone made a joke like that on you father or mother or someone very dear to you??"
What would I do? Tell them not to be silly.
Instead, he gets to spend the rest of his life in a stinking Saudi jail.
This is the kind society in which islamic fundamentalists want us to live. The frightening thing is, they can't work out why we're not interested.
Tragic, all round.
6 - Donnie Marler
What a sad story. Thank God I wasn't judged on the remarks I made as an 18 year old.
7 - Rodney Welch
And thank God Q Bit never pursued a career as a comedian.
8 - dc~ac
then excuse me for saying that you have no respect for either god nor his messengers.
how do you expect to go to heaven if you don't even fear GOD himself??
9 - Christopher Rose
Who can respect a creature that doesn't actually exist? It would be like respecting wookie...
10 - khalid
I do not know how this outher is silly. If you know real Islam you would say, " Hadi should got killed because of his joke", but since he 18 years old, he was judged just to put him in the jail. Q Bit, Do you know how Prophet Mohammed is important to Musim. Neverthless, I am sure you do not know and you will not know until you know the real Islam.
Thanks
11 - Sunny D
It appears on face value a harsh decision, but who am i to judge. Perhaps he could be given an opportunity to atone for his immature mistake. We all do things
when young taht we think back on and regret. Perhaps its true that a society can be judged in the balance it achieves in such things and its ability to show mercy and clemancy.
12 - Cannonshop
#10 So... you're saying you worship your prophet, rather than your god? Interesting. I couldn't find the bit in the Q'uran about Mohammed being Allah, and therefore worthy of the same deference. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to how Muhammed (a man)=Allah (god).
It's something that strikes me as equivalent to putting someone in prison for mocking the Christian Pope or making Pervy Priest jokes, but then, my copy of the Q'uran maybe isn't the annotated "Teacher's Edition" with the answers in the back and the extra-secret chapter explaining how suicide (a Mortal Sin) is blessed as long as you take out a bus full of tourists or a playground full of kids.
Once, Khalid, the Islamic world was a shining beacon of enlightenment, with architecture, science, art, and philosophy-an example to the world of what TRUE faith could build when it honoured its God rather than the men who claimed to speak for Him.
This was while my ancestors were shivering in the darkness and hunted by both man and beast in diseased ignorance.
Seems the roles have reversed. This story's just another example of how FAR islam has fallen from its heights.
When your faith needs guns or bombs or knives to protect itself from ideas and words, it is truly weak, and in decline.