Quote:TV presenter Saira Khan has said she received death threats after revealing she is not a practising Muslim
The former Loose Women panellist clarified her faith earlier this week in a column for The Daily Mirror.
In an Instagram Live on Monday, Khan said she had received death threats.
"People assume that because we have Muslim parents we are practising Muslims, that we have read the Quran, that we fast every Ramadan, that we don't drink, that we don't have sex before marriage."
Khan said many aspects of her lifestyle did not fit with Islam, such as wearing clothes that go against the accepted dress code, drinking alcohol and having a boyfriend "behind closed doors".
Khan said she had been "contacted by so many women in the last 24 hours documenting their fears for wanting to live their life how they wish".
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55999849
Quote:Five arrested for death threats against French teen who said ‘Islam is as shit religion’
The teenage girl, identified only as Mila, had previously defended her strong atheist beliefs on French TV after insulting Islam, claiming that the Quran is ‘full of hate’ during an online outburst.
The five people, aged between 18 and 29, were arrested in various regions of France for ‘cyberbullying’ and ‘death threats’ against Mila, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday.
Mila (pictured) was removed by police ‘for her own safety’ from her sixth-grade college in Lyon, southeastern France and faced a torrent of insults and threats to rape and murder her
Tuesday’s arrests were part of an investigation conducted by France’s national anti-hate center, recently set up within the Paris prosecutor’s office.
https://whatsnew2day.com/five-arrested-f...-religion/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"