Spiegel Magazine interviews ex-Muslim Mina Ahadi about here efforts to help women leave Islam in it's Power of Faith issue.
An Iranian human rights activist living in Germany has formed a "Central Council of ex-Muslims in Germany" with 40 others and has received anonymous death threats after declaring she wants to help people to leave the religion if they so desire...
...Ahadi has been put under police protection in recent days. Renouncing Islam can carry the death penalty in a number of countries including Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Mauritania.
People like Mina Ahadi are equivalent to our American civil rights workers who braved lynch mobs, hate, and murder to help build a better country.
I don't think it's possible to modernize Islam. We want to form a counterweight to the Muslim organisations. The fact that we're doing this under police protection shows how necessary our initiative is.
Because of Ahadi's stand, she requires police protection. Something is broken in Europe - they give too much power to Islam. Power that is undeserved.
