Iran's Supreme Court has reviewed the death sentence of a professor accused of questioning the rule of hardline clerics and likely will set it aside, the professor's lawyer said Saturday. But clerics warned they would execute Hashem Aghajari themselves if his death sentence is overturned. Aghajari, a history professor at Tehran's Teachers Training University, was convicted of insulting Islam and questioning clerical rule during a June speech. He asked why only clerics were authorized to interpret Islam and argued that each new generation should be able to interpret the faith.
Nope. Nope. Couldn't have that. Sounds too much like individual liberty. Why, it's next thing to Protestantism. Who's this guy think he is? Martin Luther? |