Sunday, November 18, 2007

Safe Haven for Convert from Islam

Here' s a story of Allan Mamemi, a convert to Christianity from Iran, who sought refugee status in Canada:
Ali had to remain in Iran for compulsory military service. While there, according to his story, he held hands in a public park with a woman whom he failed to realize was married. For this he was beaten, and ordered to report to a labour camp. Instead he left for Canada, arriving in 1999.

But his claim of refugee status was denied. In May of 2006 he was ordered deported. At that point he went into sanctuary at St. John’s and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He remained in sanctuary, either at St. John’s or briefly at two other parishes, which Meakes declined to name.

Meakes said that before going into sanctuary Monemi converted to Christianity and asked that people call him Allan. At his baptism, MP Don Bell became one of his godfathers. His conversion raised the stakes, since leaving Islam can be a capital offense in Iran.

We seem to have more of a problem with deporting people like Said Jaziri and Mahmoud Jaballah than people like Allan Mamemi.

4 comments:

@#$%$% said...

Islam cannot be practiced in Canada.
It violates the Charter on many points.
In order to practice islam, the muslim have to recite quran and there is violation of the charter rights of others right there.
Quran denies people's rights to life and security of the person, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and equality before the law.

It should not be hard to obtain a restraining order preventing practice of islam in Canada from the human rights tribunal on those grounds. And it's free!

Talk about turning the enemy's weapon against itself!

Abu Abdullah said...

I don't buy his story. I think his conversion to Christianity was done out of opportunism rather than conviction.

@#$%$% said...

Well, anon, look at it this way: we are big enough people to let him stay in order to watch and see if he will convert back once the sea calms down.
I personally think that for a muslim to convert to christianity and risk his life if he does get extradited, is a pretty big deal.
Looks like that guy does deserve benefit of the doubt.

Kafir Canada said...

You could be right, anon. I did think about it. But the church involved seems pretty convinced.