Pastor to Die in Iran for being a Christian

But isn't this case just as much a human rights issue then a Iranian pastor refusing to renouce his beliefs against hardline fundamentalists who claim he was born Muslim, so far failed to provide substantial evidence backing this. Refusing to compromise one's beliefs/principles, in most respects, is honorable, if not respectable even for strident cynics. Not comparable per say, but would most have criticized, mocked Christians rounded up, tortured, burned on stakes in coliseums as Nero's scapegoats. Or Jews faced centuries of pogroms, constantly displaced, racial/Social Darwinist myths for murdering Christ.

Of course, beliefs that are destructive, are coersive and indoctrinate masses into genocide, ethnic cleansing of cultures, races are horrific crimes of worst types. Very few disagree there, but juxtaposing what/or how we react differently to these situations is superficial. Its convenient for me to argue whether mans' is ultimately more foolish then brave, but this isn't as objective reality as there rarely comparable, and I'm honest enough to not assume I know how I'd react faced with grave life-or-death situations. I can't, in fact more people probably can't despite how much some believe they'd might go about handling it.