This week marks the 12th anniversary of Mohsen AmirAslani’s #execution. He was a religious psychoanalyst who studied #Quran. His crime was interpreting the story of Jonah as symbolic rather than a literal account of a man surviving inside a whale!
#Iran sentenced him to death for #heresy and innovations in #Islam. A state that imprison and execute a person over how he interprets their own religion is not enforcing faith, but exercising total control over what it thinks people should believe