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Bahrain arrests 4 for ‘religious insult’ on Instagram

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Bahraini authorities said Thursday that four cyberactivists have been arrested for posting insults about companions of Prophet Mohammed on Instagram.

The four are accused of posting on the smartphone photo-sharing service “texts and pictures damaging to companions of the (Muslim) Prophet”, state news agency BNA reported.

It said they were arrested after an investigation of users of the Instagram account and would be put on trial, without identifying the suspects.

The companions of Prophet Mohammed are revered by Sunni Muslims.

Bahrain has been deeply divided since a 2011 uprising led by its Shiite majority against its Sunni monarchy, which brutally crushed the revolt.

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12 responses to “Bahrain arrests 4 for ‘religious insult’ on Instagram”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Wait a second … I thought all the ‘companions’ were dead.
    Oh well … there’s ANOTHER in the long list of countries ‘monitoring’ everyone’s messages … otherwise known as SPYing …. so here’s another one, idiots.
    F.O.

  2. CrossWinds Avatar
    CrossWinds

    The True God alone will deal with those who continue in rebellion against Him, and who reject the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The Father has committed all judgement to the Son of man, who is the Son of God, who walked among us as a man, who came to forgive those who forsake their sin, and accept The Holy Spirit, that God gives those who believe on His name……..Jesus, and Jesus only……..who died on the Cross for our sins, and rose again from the dead………

    Acts 4:12……..
    Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Go with the Winds .

    2. Btru2u Avatar
      Btru2u

      Let us first look to the evidences. This is always imperative for a person who is seeking truth, to look at what is clear evidence. That’s why we go to scripture and we look at what scripture has told us. Scripture is only a scripture in the original language. So when you don’t have scripture in original language, you are guessing, you are not going to get the same answers if you had the original scripture. Therefore, it’s not appropriate for us to use English. No prophet of Allah ever spoke English. It didn’t exist until just 900 and some years ago after the Normans invaded the Saxons. English is a language that we are using, contemporary language, however if you really want to understand and especially confirm what was said, what was taught, you must go to the ancient languages, which are: Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic.

      These are the Semitic languages. They were translated into Koine Greek and Latin; however, those are not the original languages of those prophets. Now, do any of the originals still exist? The answer is “yes,” there is no doubt. The entire Quran is still existing. Portions of the Old Testament and portions of the New Testament also exist because they’re in the Quran, confirmed by the Quran.

      When you find these and then you find the ancient manuscripts in the Hebrew and the Aramaic saying the same thing, you can compare it to the Quran and then you know for a fact that that’s true. That we can do, and more, they agree. Wherever you can take from and look at them and see they say the same thing. Then you have no doubt this is the teaching of the prophets. Let us look to what is called, commonly known as to the Christians and Jews as the Ten Commandments. Look to the book of Exodus, which is the second book of the five books of Moses, chapter 20, it says real clear: “I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You know no other God beside me.” Then the first commandment comes up, “Thou shall have no other gods beside me.” It goes on, “Thou shall not make unto me any graven image.” Not of anything that creeps upon the earth, swims in the sea beneath nor flies in the heaven above.

      This is paraphrasing the verse. I’m not using Elizabethan English, I’m not speaking to you in the way they did it at the time of Shakespeare. Next, let us look in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 5. The same thing again, first commandment “Thou shall not have any other gods beside me.” Second commandment: no idols, no images of anything, walking on the earth, swimming in the sea beneath, flying in the heaven above. So it’s clear from these verses, if there were no other verses in the Bible, that’s enough to say that you can’t worship anybody other than God. However there are many other verses saying the same thing. The book of Hosea, this is also in the Old Testament, in the book of Prophets after the book of Jeremiah, you will find the book of Amos and Jonah. Look in Hosea I think it’s in chapter 13, verse 4. The meaning of it is that it says something similar: I’m the Lord, your God, brought you out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage. You know no other God beside me. Beside me there is no savior. So, for sure this goes with our subject tonight, talking about the Wasilah (the drawing closer to Allah).

      To get salvation, you draw close to Allah and it’s Allah by His Rahmah (His grace) that you are saved. You are not saved except by the grace, nobody is saved except by grace. It’s by Allah’s grace, His mercy that we are saved by, and He extends that to those who worship Him alone without partners. They do not break those two commandments that I just quoted to you, because those are the same commandments in the New Testament. I read to you already from Surah an-Nisa, chapter 4, verse 48. Allah says He does not forgive (La Yaghfiru), He does not forgive the setting up of partners with Him in worship, but anything less than this, He can forgive it. And who ever has committed this Shirk or association with Him, his “partners,” then they have invented a monstrous thing and they will not be forgiven for that.

      Sheikh Yusuf Estes

      1. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
        Maborlz Ez-Hari

        Rahmah doesn’t mean grace,
        Grace is naama, rahmah is mercy
        You error in simple translation.
        You error in everything you think
        You know about others. Stick to
        your koran and the rest of your
        Errors.

        1. Btru2u Avatar
          Btru2u

          Bismilah Al Rahman Al Rahim, (In The name of Allah, most gracious most merciful), if I wanted religious advise I would not come to you. So why are you so obsessed with stalking and opposing my every comment . If that’s what what you got out of that article then you have no interest in dialogue. I have no time for you , so why don’t you just move on and find some friends that care.

          1. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
            Maborlz Ez-Hari

            Either I am damming myself to hell for eternity or I will somehow reveal to you that you are deceived. Your poor soul has caught the wrong bus and you won’t realise your destination till you get there.

        2. Btru2u Avatar
          Btru2u

          Bismilah Al Rahman Al Rahim, (In The name of Allah, most gracious most merciful), if I wanted religious advise I would not come to you. So why are you so obsessed with stalking and opposing my every comment . If that’s what what you got out of that article then you have no interest in dialogue. I have no time for you , so why don’t you just move on and find some friends that care.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        So Btru2u … if you agree that ‘the message’ in concept is basically the same in ‘the books’ (and as we can see in other religions like Buddhism this is a truism) then why argue over how God is going to sort you out after death? Just be happy He will.
        Recently a ‘believer’ man – who had been bitten by a rattlesnake on a finger once earlier in life and lost that finger, was bitten again last week on the hand. He was told he was looking rather close to death and needed treatment. He refused the treatment because – as he said – ‘God would take care’ of him. And thus, he left us to be with God.
        So ‘natural’, don’t you think? Why should humans push the event with more words??

    3. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
      Maborlz Ez-Hari

      I have been too ashamed of my nickname to respond to Crosswinds on many occasions but I have to let him/her know that their posts are truly words of Truth, Wisdom and are like food for the soul. Unlike the mess that comes from the opposite supernatural entity the foe. If you are not of Christ you are of the anti-Christ.

      1. CrossWinds Avatar
        CrossWinds

        Hello Maboriz…..Well spoken…..Thank you for your response and encouragement. I did not understand what you said about your nickname. I would like to understand if you want to share. Anyways, God Bless you richly…….Crosswinds from Canada……..

        .Colossians 2:2-3……..
        2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  3. WaynYo Avatar
    WaynYo

    Amen , the TRUE God alone will deal with those who continue in rebellion against him .

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