The Gaytheist Agenda

Granted, the religion the woman in question was practicing, that of giant teapot worship, is definitely unusual. But she was jailed for it–which qualifies as genuine persecution. American RRRW Christians have nothing on this woman.

Kamariah Ali, a 57 year old former teacher, was arrested in 2005 when the government of the Muslim majority country demolished the two storey high sacred tea pot and other infrastructure of the “heretical” Sky Kingdom cult.

For the eccentric sect, which emphasised ecumenical dialogue between religions, the tea pot symbolized the purity of water and “love pouring from heaven”.

But in Malaysia, despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of worship, born Muslims such as Mrs Ali are forbidden from converting to other religions.

Born Muslims? Nobody is born a Muslim. Nor or they born a Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. There’s a reason that Christian parents typically have Christian children, Muslim parents have Muslim children and so on, and so on. It’s because parents tend to indoctrinate their children into their own religion. It’s only if the parents choose not to have the child taught any religion, or to have the child be brought up in a different religion, that the results will vary.

Passing sentence, the Sharia judge Mohammed Abdullah said: “The court is not convinced that the accused has repented and is willing to abandon any teachings contrary to Islam. I pray God will open the doors of your heart, Kamariah.”

Mrs Ali has already been jailed once for apostasy, for 20 months in 1992.

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The population is divided between Hindus of Indian origin, Christian and Buddhist ethnic Chinese and a narrow majority of ethnic Malays who are legally deemed Muslim by birth and whose interests the government is sworn to protect.

It doesn’t seem that Mrs. Ali wishes to comply with the law, and I can’t say I blame her. The government obviously thinks it can force people to adhere to a particular religion via threats and punishments. No doubt in some cases they get people to comply, if not in their hearts and minds then at least through appearances. Mrs. Ali’s religion may be illogical but she’s standing up to thugs who want only to make her trade it for another illogical religion. I’ll give her credit for at least standing up for what she believes in, if for nothing else.