That online petition is specific to Americans.  Here is a link to another site that is a more generic petition as well as a link to write to the Iranian Embassy in Canada.

http://www.dohi.org/petition/

Internet petitions aren't always that effective because it's so easy for people to sign multiple times, but it does get the message out.  No one should ever be persecuted for changing religions or practicing one religion rather than another.  

Would this be the same senate and house that have approved the mass torture and murder of Moslems?

And is it the same house that just cut free school lunches for poor schoolchildren so they could divert money to making more weaponry without raising taxes on the rich?

Boy. You sure know how to pick your Christians.

How are you different from Moslems who hate Christians?

How does that, in any way, affect the plights of the pastor and his lawyer, graeme? Yes, the Senate and House of that wonderful country to the South have a lot to answer for. But you're essentially diminishing a human rights issue on the basis of who is supporting it. Here's a story on the lawyer's case that also mentions the pastor. It's from Amnesty International, so this is clearly not just a Christian issue.

http://www.amnesty.ca/media2010.php?DocID=1529

Mendalla

And here's Amnesty's press release on the pastor. Amnesty is no friend to the US having hammered them over Gitmo for as long as it's existed so I hope this will give the case some credibility in your eyes, graeme.

http://www.amnesty.ca/media2010.php?DocID=973

Mendalla

I'm afraid you missed my point. If this were not a Christian pastor - and in a Moslem country - we wouldn't be discussing it.

Stepthen would not have posted about it. And you would not have eloquently come to h is support.

Yesterday, an American drone attacked a mosque killing a large number at prayer.

So who gives a damn?

Sorry. I find it hard to get excited about selective sympathy.

Oh, I'm with you on that. I have a friend involved in advocacy for prisoners of conscience and he doesn't care what their faith is. If they are in prison for their faith or politics, it's his problem (he's UU). Your wording, however, seemed that that selective sympathy somehow made the case less important, which it does not. My bad if I misunderstood you.

Mendalla

No. It doesn't make it less important at all.

what does the damage is getting concerned only with those cases that suit our social prejudices. then it becomes an act against someone, rather than an act for someone. It also worsens the anti-moslem prejudices that are out of control in the western world.

I think we agree.