'Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! Got Peanuts?
Posted on 09/21/2006 1:12:48 AM PDT by Lorianne
On June 29, 2006, a court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced Malak Ghorbany, a 34-year-old mother of two, to a brutal death by stoning after finding her guilty of adultery. . . . Two men who were found guilty of murder in the same court were only given jail sentences of six years. . . . The size of the stones used during the execution are required to be . . . not so large that they would kill a woman too quickly, nor so small that they would fail to cause serious injury or pain . — A letter, unanswered, to George W. Bush from John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, one of the nation's premier civil liberties organizations. The part about the stones is from Article 104 of the Iranian penal code.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has become an international celebrity, brandishing his nuclear program—and his yearning to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He is visited by such personages as U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. In their conversations with him, neither has asked the swashbuckling leader about "honor killings" by the government of women charged with having committed "adultery."
As human rights lawyer Lily Mazahery, president of the Legal Rights Institute reports, "in 99 percent of these cases, the accused women have received no legal representation because, under the Shariah legal system, their testimony is at best worth only half the value of the testimony of men."
And there is no single executioner. These are mass murders by stone-throwing members of the community, having the kind of festive time common among American mass lynchers of blacks, when the murderers brought their children to join in the fun. In Iran too, kids are present to witness the sinners' redemption.
The capital crime of adultery, Mazahery has explained to World Net Daily, "includes [under Shariah law] any type of intimate relationship between a girl/woman and a man to whom she is not permanently or temporarily married. Such a relationship does not necessarily mean a sexual relationship.
"Further, charges of adultery are routinely issued to women/girls who have been raped—and they are sentenced to death." (Their unpardonable crime is to have been raped.)
During the continuous coverage in this country of Iran's nuclear threat and its crucial support of terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, there has been scarcely any mention of this horrifying dimension of the culture of Iran: sangsar, the stoning to death of women.
Mazahery, the Persian American lawyer whose mission has long been to save Iranian women from this and other brutal treatment, tells me that sangsar, "dating back to the dark ages," was, for a time, suspended by the pre-revolutionary regime due to pressure from international human rights organizations, combined with protests from civilized persons around the world. But when the mullahs took over in the 1979 revolution, they brought back Shariah law, and when this president came to power, he reinstituted public stonings, as a "religious principle," against women.
As of this writing, President Ahmadinejad is on his way to address the United Nations in New York. There will be heavy press coverage. Will any reporter ask him about the stoning of women in his country—and the particular case of Malak Ghorbany? And while former "moderate" Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been in the United States—lecturing at Harvard, among other prestigious venues—I know of no reporter who has asked him to discourse on the stoning of women under his successor.
Mazahery, who was recently invited by students and faculty to respond to Khatami at Harvard, has written and circulated an online petition, "Save Malak Ghorbany From Death by Public Stoning," addressed to Kofi Annan; the U.N.'s commissioner of human rights; and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran; as well as to the head of its judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi.
So far, there have been more than 11,000 signatories—from around the world, including this country, China, and most tellingly, Iran. For Iranians to sign took much courage. As Ali Afshari and Akbar Atri—founding members of Iranian Students for Democracy and Human Rights—revealed in the September 2–3 Wall Street Journal:
"Satellite dishes are being collected to cut off public access to the . . . news of the global community. Women's groups, labor organizations, and student groups are not permitted even the more peaceful acts of protest."
As a result, however, of growing international concern about Malak Ghorbany, partly from Mazahery's petition, the Islamic regime has stayed her execution until she gets a new trial. But as Mazahery points out, Iran has used this three-card-monte trick before. As she told World Net Daily: "It is quite possible the Islamic regime will schedule a rush sham trial and reissue the same sentence [and] even with a new trial, Ghorbany would still receive the same sentence or be sentenced to death by public hanging instead."
The pressure to save Malak Ghorbany must continue. The direct link to Malak's petition, where you can sign on, is petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html. For related topics, and to link to videos of actual public stonings, click on savemalak.googlepages.com/home.
Keep in mind, Mazahery warns,"There are no scheduled dates for such killings in Iran. A prisoner can be executed at any time with little or no notice at all. Needless to say, that makes matters that much more complicated and urgent in these types of cases."
I shall return to this ongoing story and to Mazahery, whose own personal story illuminates the barbarism of the rulers of Iran—where scores of student dissenters are in prison and, as Ali Afshari and Akbar Atri report, "the noose has been tightened around the neck of writers, journalists, and bloggers in the past few months."
It is ironic that so many leftist women in this country do not express more outrage at this type of thing. Yet, they are the first to point out perceived evils of America to anyone who will listen.
Islamic law is sick. Did you see the recent pictures of the 8 year old boy who stole food having his arm crushed by an automobile? I don't know if it was legit or not (did not take the time to follow up on the email) but I do know that type of thing happens in strict Islamic society.
Meanwhile the ACLU, that great defender of liberty, is working hard to ensure that men who think like this will have a clear path to attack us here in the U.S.
What a world we live in!
The NOW-NAGS should be on this with a fury, any minute now...
(((crickets)))
From the Western Resistance blog, savagery in suburban Britain: UK: Six Year Old Girl Burned To Death For Muslim ‘Honor’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 272 comments
If only Bush had the courage to describe such cases in his U.N. speech to embarrass Amadjejidad, as well as examples from Venezuela as well. Those two vermin insult our President and all he can do is invite the terrorist Abbas to the White House and call him a "man of peace". What is wrong with him? No response? Not even from his minions? Reagan would never permit such an insult to go unanswered (or unpunished).
Welcome to the land of the imported Arab-Islam and their long ago converted, most by the sword and some by choice and based on lies & deceit.
The new Islamic/Arab worshippers, then, in Iran, were called "Taazi-Parastan"; Parastan = worshippers. "Taazi" refers/referred to the Bedouin/Moslem Arabs who invaded Iran in the 7th Century. Taazi "kesafat" = "dirty & unclean". They are still Taazian kesafat even and especially that they are the so-called Iranians who are, at least, in ideology the same as those Islam/Arabs of the 7th Century.
FYI: One of the rituals the Moslems who go to Mecca on a Pilgrimage must follow is to go looking for stones, gather appropriate type/size stones and then come back and throw them at a pretend-to-be "devil/satan". I am not kidding. And, this is regardless of whether you are or want to be classified as a moderate or radical Moslem.
I find it pathetic that even most of those so-called moderate Moslems (including some of their women) keep their mouths firmly shut when Sharia law or its created versions are applied in reality, not to a pretend-to-be but to a real person.
If something remotely such as this (stoning women for example) happened in Iran under the Shah, the leftists, the anti-shah, the communists, so-called Humanitarians, Feminists, JIMMY CARTER, FRANCE AND THE EU, the Useful Idiots, MSM, and all the rest would have had a field day!
There would have been an incredible and never ending outrage in the mainstream media and they would have focused endlessly on the subject.
They would have DEMANDED an end to the Regime and left, not surprisingly, any STONE UNTURNED to end the Regime.
But, now, we hear about dialogue of civilisations with the mullahs, incentive packages, meaningful sanctions and negotiations to make sure all is peaceful. Perhaps, someone suggested a while ago, we should kick Ahmadinejad (IRI) out of the UN (as if he cares or the UN counts anyway!).
Go Figure.
ping
I've said this before, but to me it seems as though the violence and discrimination of women in Islamic society stems from some sort of inherent inferiority complex among the men which leads to the need to dominate women. It's almost a type of fear that women, if not kept down, will become their equals or worse, rise above them.
Hence, if these women show independent thinking in any form, particularly when it pertains to even platonic male/female relationships, they feel threatened. The women must be disposed of in order to reinforce the position of male dominance in the society. Well, that's MHO anyway.
The joys of moral relativism/multiculturalism. As for Liberals and femininists remaining silent about women's rights under sharia/Islam, it's Clinton all over again. They protected him through thick and thin. He was and remains their guy, despite rape, lies, murders by the score, selling this country to her enemies, and God knows what else. Power is all. When they regain power, they'll wallpaper over whatever mess they make, including genocide...(see Rwanda and Clinton's lies as Air Force One revved up on the tarmac.)
An amusing story along those lines...I was talking to a woman that was complaining about the Bush and the war. I mentioned to her that if the people we are fighting get their way, she would not be allowed to dress is such revealing atire.
She was wearing shorts and a button front short sleeve shirt but they were very conservative. She looked at her clothes and gave an expression that said, I'm not wearing revealing clothes.
Then her teenage daughter walked up and I told her that for sure her daughter would never be allowed to dress like that (she too was not bearing much).
The woman's reaction, "Well, there just must be another way."
To answer your point, they simply can not let go of their hatred for Bush even in the face of facts.
Tell me -- has Carter spoken out against this? He seems to have plenty of time on his hands. Did he even write (as he did during the hostage crisis) "from one believer to another" (barf) to object?
The Carter Legacy (how do you the trademark symbol in HTML?) -- don't forget it!
Our Canadian friends have their own version of this pestilence:
Sheer hypocrisy from Liberal MP on SOW
( They don't really call themselves "sows," but Status of Women is their nickname, so... )
Glenn Beck had an Iranian apologist on his show a couple weeks ago and he confronted him about stoning. Beck had explained about the size of stones, and how they carry out the stoning, but the guy was so irritating because he wouldn't carry on an honest dialogue.
At some point in the interview, the guy said to Beck, "You won't let me talk." (because Beck would interrupt him when he was trying to skirt the issue.)
Beck said, "You know, you're right. I won't let you talk, this interview's over" and with that they ended the segment early.
It was good to see that he didn't let the guy try to put his "spin" on the situation.
This stoning thing may seem like a bad thing but I'd gladly be the first to heave a stone or two at Mrs. Clinton in a village square.
Sorry, just a little fantasy.
Damn! Six Years! That's an outrage! I demand that those poor men be declared martyrs immediately.
</sarcasm>
"...those two vermin insult our President and all he can do is invite the terrorist Abbas to the White House and call him a "man of peace". What is wrong with him?"
President Bush is not a born Texan, but a too-sissified easterner, when it comes to a sense of honor. How dare he allow the President of the United States of America to be treated so disrespectfully by such worms! It is not about him. It's about the USA, and he should never have allowed such a degrading spectacle to happen in our country. To have Rice and Bolton say they "won't respond" confirms our weakness to the fleas on the body politic and betrays a lack of respect for our country. I am sick of this weak-kneed approach.
The stones are not thrown by the rulers. The rot goes much deeper than the government. It is Islam that is rotten. I wish I could see a Muslim reformation, but I can't.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.