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Iranian Court Orders Man To Be Blinded
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| 6/28/2005
| Angus McDowall
Posted on 06/30/2005 4:36:53 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
...unusual sentences are sometimes passed by Islamic courts, which are bound by rigid Koran injunctions for certain crimes. But they say these punishments are usually used as leverage for the amount of compensation to be paid by the offender to the victim. In this case, the victim seeks £180,000, which a board of arbitration is trying to reduce because the defendant says he cannot pay. The board is also trying to persuade the victim's family to give up their demand that the crime should be classed as qisas.
So, the Koran law is used as a tool to get people to pony up to pay monetary penalties.
I guess a set of eyes are worth £180,000
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posted on
06/30/2005 4:58:48 PM PDT
by
Popman
(In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'm just waiting for Amnesty International, the international human rights people, and the liberal media to put up a cry over this.Come on, it's in the second sentence of the story. "Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed."
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posted on
06/30/2005 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
Heyworth
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed. Well, as long as the Iranians don't turn the AC knob a little to far counter-clockwise, or, heaven forbid, someone puts panties on his head. Then Amnesty International would get really upset.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:01:05 PM PDT
by
Spiff
(Don't believe everything you think.)
To: Onelifetogive
I'll carry out the sentence... aarrrgggghh...one look at that and you'll be blind or want to be blind.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:08:29 PM PDT
by
evad
(No action to secure borders, No action on judges... NO MONEY!)
To: Heyworth
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:08:30 PM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: SIDENET
Maybe it was citric acid he threw ... hey, it stings, ya know?
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:16:00 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
State religion of Peace.........
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:21:44 PM PDT
by
jmq
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Come on, nothing. There is NOTHING on their website
Do a search for "Iran", there's pages of stuff reporting abuses by the Iranian legal system.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:26:30 PM PDT
by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
To: Popman
these punishments are usually used as leverage for the amount of compensation to be paid by the offender to the victim. How primative. In America these lawsuits will only cost an arm and a leg... or the cash equivalent.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:32:19 PM PDT
by
Reeses
To: Onelifetogive
I'll carry out the sentence... No thanks; I'll stick to self-abuse.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:32:47 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: M. Dodge Thomas
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:35:52 PM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
the latest story I see is from Sept. 2003 When you get the search results, click "search on date"
www.amnesty.org/results/is/eng?queryType=0&searchIn=0&query=iran&start=1&num=10&max=25&sortBy=date
www.tinyurl.com/crx58
(BTW, I was asked by the moderators a while back not to post "clikable" links, as this points back to FR).
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:43:46 PM PDT
by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
But for the 12 year old at the time bit I'd be siding with the muslims on this one.
There is no amount of jail time or beating that can equal blinding another man for the rest of his life.
The eye for an eye principle is a good one.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:53:08 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: M. Dodge Thomas
Thanks, that's good stuff.
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posted on
06/30/2005 5:56:04 PM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: Onelifetogive
*helen thomas photo*
OH! NO! :D
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posted on
06/30/2005 6:59:31 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
That's a bit extreme. Iranians are nuts!
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"Reformists and dissidents fear human rights could suffer under the new administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..."
roflmao...
kill a couple hundred mullahs, imams and ruling clerics... then get back to us, habib.
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posted on
06/30/2005 7:02:43 PM PDT
by
Robert_Paulson2
(Get your brand new 'penumbra and emanation' scopes while they are hot, two for fifty cents!!!)
To: rodguy911
Oh no ayatollah I will pay up let me find my wallet,
lets' see 1,000 for a right eye and $500 for a left. And $250 for the brown eye assault.
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posted on
06/30/2005 7:20:42 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(God Bless America)
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