Turkey – Cartoonist to be put on trial for renouncing God

29 Sep 2011

A cartoonist is facing trial for a caricature in which he renounces God. Turkish cartoonist Bahadır Baruter created an image showing an imam and believers praying in a mosque, with one believer on his mobile phone, asking God to excuse him from the last part of the prayer to run errands. The Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s office charged Baruter with “insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population” and requested that he be imprisoned for one year. The cartoon, which was published in the weekly Penguen magazine, included the words ”There is no Allah, religion is a lie”, hidden in the image.

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  1. dangermaus

    January 27, 2012 at 17:04

    If Turkey prosecutes people for apostacy, they’re not a free country, and I hope Europe treats them accordingly with regard to EU membership (although that’s up to them, of course). Monotheists are *almost* correct about the number of gods that exist – they’re just off by one.

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