Haleh Afshar Quotes
No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
Haleh Afshar, (Baroness Afshar), Member of the House of Lords (First Moslem Woman Lord, Iranian Born English Islamic Reformer, Political Scientist & Feminist, Quoted in Ascenstion Gateway, http://www.ascensiongateway.com/quotes/baroness-afshar/index.htm
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Backus was the first of the American clerics to espouse the position that in order for there to be a Christian nation, the state must be separate from the Church.
Justinian, like many civil political leaders before and after him, took great pains to minimize the civil authority of the church. Separation of church and state is not a modern notion, though it was harder to accomplish in antiquity. Rulers would want to coopt the religion to help legitimize their rule, but tried to keep the church as weak as they could unless another religion was challenging for supremecy.
See {624641} for Iranian confirmation of its discriminatory policy. The Iranian "justification for murdering Bahais is this: The Behai were originally Muslims and then they created an heretic form of Islam. Under Islamic Law (Sharia), any Muslim who converts away from Islam to ANY other religioun must be out to death. As barbarous as this sounds, the irrational thinking is the same as that of the Catholic Church when Protestant chiurches emerged. All of them were to be put to death. However that was over 600 years ago, and humanity has much imporoved standards today. But the Muslims are 700 years younnger than the Catholic Church and some point out that they are behaving the same way as the Catholics, brutal as it is, when the Church was at the same level of maturity as Islam is today.
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE FAcSS is a British life peer in the House of Lords.
