{"id":2954,"date":"2013-08-31T09:14:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2022-08-07T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:33:06","slug":"sunni-scholar-defrock-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/08\/31\/2954\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunni Kurd scholar defrocked in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/mamosta-salam-golnavaz-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>The Special Court for Scholars in Tabriz, northwest Iran, has sentenced a Sunni scholar, Mamousta Salam Golnawaz, to six years imprisonment defrocking him for lifetime on Monday, August 26, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.3em;\">\u201cSunniOnline\u201d quoted a local news website, Mukrian, a special court in Tabriz city sentenced the Sunni scholar, Salam Golnawaz, to six years custody. The imam of a Sunni masjid in the suburb of Sardasht, Eastern Azerbaijan province, was unfrocked by the court as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the news agency, Mamousta Golnawaz was tried without advocate; he refused all allegations in the court. He was blamed for \u2018criticizing the local officials and defending the rights of people to provoke them against the state, preaching Sunni tenets in order to highlight Shia-Sunni differences, supporting outlawed organizations and being a member of the Maktab-e-Qur\u2019an Movement\u2019, founded by late Kaak Ahmad Muftizadeh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The news agency quoted Mr. Salam Golnawaz as saying, \u201cThe judge who was trying me called my Masjid, \u2018Masjid-e-Hazrat Omar\u2019, may Allah be pleased with him, the mosque of Dhirar (Mosque of Hypocrites)!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The order of the court was conveyed to the Sunni Scholar of Sardasht, simultaneously populated by Kurdish Sunnis, orally on the basis of the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s reports. He can ask for retrial within 20 days. There was not any evidence against him in the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is noteworthy, Mamousta Golnawaz had been questioned by the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s officials before in Urmia, capital city of the Western Azerbaijan province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Mukrian &amp; SunniOnline.us<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Court for Scholars in Tabriz, northwest Iran, has sentenced a Sunni scholar, Mamousta Salam Golnawaz, to six years imprisonment defrocking him for lifetime on Monday, August 26, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c58-ahl-al-sunna-in-iran"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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