A top Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani, has issued a fatwa for the death of two journalists for “offending Islam.”

“It is the duty of every good Muslim to help the execution of this fatwa,” wrote on his website the cleric, who is based in the holy Shiite city of Qom.

Rafegh Taghi, an editorialist for the newspaper Senet, published in Baku in the republic of Azerbaijan, is considered guilty of having offended Islam and its Prophet Mohammed in an article called ‘Us and Europe’ which Lankarani slammed as “clearly offensive to Islam” because it talks about “the superiority of Europe compared to the Middle East .. it considers Islam inferior to Christianity .. offends the Prophet Mohammed.”

Samir Sedaghatoglu, the paper’s publisher, has instead been charged with “not forbidding the apostate to offend Islam.”

So Sedaghatoglu’s ‘offense’ was to allow the publication of Taghi’s article, thus Sedaghatoglu personally did nothing to offend Islam and yet he still got a fatwa for his head on a plate.

Meanwhile Ali Bardakoglu, who heads Ankara’s Directorate General for Religious Affairs which controls Turkish imams and writes their sermons, said all Muslims were offended by suggestions Islam is violent.  It is the suggestion that Islam is violent that, according to Bardakoglu, sparks violence in the name of Islam.  What did Sedaghtoglu do exactly to merit his death warrant?

Yep, it’s crystal clear now.

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