A Canadian-Iranian blogger is receiving death threats.

This isn’t a joke.

Now they’ve moved to BlogSpot and have made another blog with the same name with a more precise content to backup their claims. They now have picked particular posts from my Persian blog, in which they think I’ve insulted the God, and other sacred concepts of Islam and therefore, quoting from a Quranic verse, I deserve to be killed.

Some of his commenters tell him not to take this seriously or to ‘buy’ a gun.
Most of the commenters advice him to inform authorities. I don’t think they can protect him either, but it is something that needs to be done. What they can do is threat assessment, and assist him in learning ways to stay safe.

The threats are coming from a list on a blog of about 400 Iranian bloggers that have insulted Islam.

I never took them seriously before, but this time I’m a bit concerned, because they seem to be a different group who have possibly liked the original blog and have tried to adopt their message and to prepare enough evidence for the original claims, at least about me. (Although I’m the first place in their the original list, there are many other names.)

It seems they have a serious message this time, and when I add this to the recent mentions of my name in the radical Islamic newspapers such as Jomhouri-e Eslami and Kayhan, it doesn’t look very good.

Salman Rushdie in England, the family of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi and Theo Van Gogh (killed last week in the Netherlands) understood this kind of threat. No one in Toronto is exempt.