'There Is No Other Way'.(religious death sentence)

From: Newsweek International | Date: November 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Last week a judge in the Iranian city of Hamadan sentenced reformist activist and university professor Hashem Aghajari to death for blasphemy. Aghajari was quoted saying, among other things, "Marx says, 'Religion is the opiate of masses,' but I say it is also the opiate of governments." In Tehran last week, the ruling sparked five days of student protests, some of the most vehement mass demonstrations since 1999. The unrest has underscored the tensions between reformists and conservatives in Iran, something with which Mashallah Shamsolvaezin is intimately familiar. A leading ...

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