Ex-Muslim Christian Pastor, Refugee From Iran, Arrested For Sharing His Testimony — Inwards Minnesota

by Tyler O'Neil: Late terminal month, Ramin Parsa, a Christian pastor who fled Islamic Republic of Iran equally a religious refugee, was arrested for privately sharing his religious belief testimony inward the Mall of America inward Bloomington, Minn. He fled persecution inward Islamic Republic of Iran too Turkey, entirely to honour persecution inward the province of the costless too the dwelling theatre of the brave.

"I came to the United States equally a political too religious — equally a Christian — refugee. They oppressed me for my religious belief inward Iran. I was stabbed inward Iran," Parsa told PJ Media inward an interview on Tuesday. Then terminal week, he was arrested for a somebody conversation close his faith, handcuffed to a metallic chair for 4 hours without water, too later on charged alongside trespassing.

"These things mightiness go on inward other countries, oppressive dictatorships, but non inward America," the pastor said.

Parsa, a pastor at Redemptive Love Ministries International inward Los Angeles, Calif., traveled to Minnesota for ii days to see ii dissimilar churches. He went to the Mall of America (MOA) on Saturday, August 25, alongside an elderberry from 1 of the churches, too alongside the elder's 14-year-old son. Shortly after entering the mall, he struck upward a conversation alongside ii Somali-American women.

"Our conversation was casual. At first, nosotros were non talking close the gospel," Parsa recalled. "They asked me, 'Are you lot a Muslim?' I said, 'No, I used to live a Muslim too I'm a Christian now.' I was telling them the even out of how I converted."

H5N1 passerby could non stand upward the discussion, however. "Another lady told the guard, 'This guy is harassing us!'" MOA safety came too told Parsa to halt soliciting. "I said, 'We're non soliciting.' But nosotros only left," the pastor explained.

The pastor too his friends went into a java shop, bought a latte, too came out. Parsa told PJ Media he idea that would live the goal of it. He was sorely mistaken.

"When nosotros came out of the java shop, 3 guards were waiting for us, too they arrested me correct there," the pastor recalled. "They came after me too arrested me, too said, 'You cannot speak religious belief here.'"

Parsa told safety he was a pastor. "They told me, 'We arrested pastors before,'" he recalled, silent shocked yesteryear the answer. "It was something normal for them, they were used to it."

Meanwhile, the ii Somali-American women who wanted to withdraw heed the pastor's even out argued alongside the adult woman who reported him to security. They defended Parsa. Onlookers asked why the human was beingness arrested. "They said, 'Because he's a Christian,'" Parsa told PJ Media.

All this was bad enough, but the guards proceeded to abuse the pastor 1 time he was inward custody.

"They handcuffed both my hands to a metallic chair that was bolted to the soil inward a basement," Parsa said. He said it reminded him of the KGB, the notorious surreptitious police describe inward the Soviet Union.

"They began to file a written report too they wanted to possess got my picture. I said, 'You cannot possess got my painting present — you lot arrested me wrongfully,'" the pastor recalled. "They said, 'Then you're going to remain hither longer.'"

Later, Parsa asked for a drinking glass of water. They refused, unless he would allow them to possess got his picture. He asked to become to the bathroom. Again, they refused. Shortly earlier the police describe came, his captors relented.

I was arrested, handcuffed & tied to a chair yesteryear the Mall of America,I was refused water,Men’s room,attorney too they didn’t fifty-fifty tell me my rights,then taken to jail yesteryear Bloomington Police subdivision entirely for sharing my conversion even out alongside roughly Samimi Muslims. #MondayMotivation

— Ramin Parsa (@ramin_parsa) September 3, 2018

"He gave me one-half of a actually pocket-sized loving cup of water," the pastor said. "He was trying to purchase me out alongside that water."

After nearly 4 hours, the police describe arrived.

"The police describe came to opened upward my handcuffs, too the handcuffs were rattling tight. It was pain my hands," Parsa recalled. "The guard said, 'I don't intend it hurts that much.'"

He suggested that the safety guards treated him alongside particular malice because he is a pastor. "I believe they treated me worse," he insisted.

The Mall of America did non respond to PJ Media's asking for comment.

After the police describe took the pastor's mugshot too fingerprints, they charged him alongside criminal trespassing. He paid $78 to bail himself out, too his friends picked him upward at 2 a.m. While that bail total may seem low, the pastor insisted, "Every cent is besides much for something I haven't done."

"I've gone through this earlier -- inward Muslim countries I was arrested for passing out bibles," Parsa said. "I didn't await that would go on inward America. As a citizen inward America, I possess got rights. They denied my basic rights."

The pastor compared the mistreatment he suffered inward Minnesota to the persecution he faced inward Islamic Republic of Iran too Turkey.

"When I became a Christian, I was stabbed, I ran away from Iran. I went to Turkey for ii years equally a refugee. We had a church building too nosotros were passing out Bibles. I was arrested," Parsa recounted. He mentioned Pastor Andrew Brunson, an American pastor imprisoned inward Turkey too charged alongside terrorism. "They idea the American authorities was paying us to transcend out bibles. I said I wishing they would," he remarked, wryly.

When at terminal he came to America, he was relieved. "With tears inward my eyes, I was thence thankful to live inward America, where I tin limited myself, nobody tin halt me or oppress me for my faith... too and then this happened to me," Parsa said.

When his identify unit of measurement heard the news, they idea it couldn't perhaps possess got happened inward America. "When they realized it happened here, they were actually shocked," the pastor remarked.

Parsa posted close the ordeal on Facebook, too presently thereafter, the authorities of Islamic Republic of Iran arrested his cousin for handing out bibles. "We are praying that my cousin volition brand it out. My nephew is inward hiding," he said.

The pastor became famous after capturing video of a bird crash inward United Mexican States on July 31. As the bird crashed, Parsa's video recorded him saying, "In Jesus' name! In nomine de Jesus!" Miraculously, all 103 people on the AeroMexico flying survived.

Parsa insisted that persecution against Christians is existent inward America, too non only because of his story.

"We possess got a football game coach who was fired because he prayed earlier the game," he said, mentioning former Bremberton High School coach Joseph Kennedy, whose lawyers appealed his representative to the Supreme Court inward June. "We possess got a bakery inward Colorado who was upholding his religious belief too he was sued too fought for nearly half dozen years," the pastor added, referencing Jack Phillips, who refused to bake a cake celebrating a same-sex marriage ceremony too was vindicated yesteryear the Supreme Court but too then attacked 1 time over again recently.

"It seems similar the entirely people who tin live bullied are the Christians," Parsa said, noting that if the constant mockery aimed at Christians were to live redirected toward Muslims, "it would live an outrage." He wondered why the LGBT activists produce non asking same-sex marriage ceremony cakes from Muslim bakeries. "In Muslim countries, they kill the gays. They throw them off the building. I saw alongside my ain eyes, people beingness executed."

"Christians are beingness persecuted too bullied, too nobody says anything to defend them," the pastor said.

While Parsa lives inward California, he volition possess got to appear inward a Minnesota courtroom to confront the charges. He told PJ Media, "We only consulted alongside a lawyer -- we're going to manage this, to driblet the charges."

If the pastor tin confirm his story, it seems the Mall of America may goal upward facing charges.
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Tyler O'Neil is Assistant Editor of PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil is a conservative fundraiser too commentator. He has written for numerous publications.

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