Posted on 08/22/2007 6:33:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot
His face covered by a balaclava, an official brandishing a cane repeatedly lashes the back of a man found guilty of breaking Iran's morality laws.
Two police officers hold the legs of 25-year-old Saeed Ghanbari and another his arms to ensure there is no escape from the punishment of 80 lashes handed down by a religious court.
Traffic was brought to a halt in Qazvin, 90 miles west of the capital Tehran, as more than 1,000 men gathered behind barricades to watch the public flogging.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They included a woman, who had been forced into prostitution as an eight-year-old, receiving 99 lashes because of "acts contrary to chasity." Earlier this year, a man was flogged after a copy of the Bible was found in his car.
At least 120 executions have been recorded so far this year, according to Amnesty, with two youths under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes among those killed
70....80......and one to grow on....
Simply insane people.
Meadow Muffin
He then got 80 more for wearing “provocative” underwear.
Ah yes, the peace of Allah...
What’s the point of posts like this? Are they meant to be an argument for going to war against Iran? If so, let’s start 90 miles from home first. People are abused in Cuba. If human rights abuses justify an American invasion, let’s start next door instead of half the globe away.
Looks like they got that poor bastard handcuffed to the flogging table. How horrible that in this day & age humans have to live under oppression like that.
Every Muslim nation is a nation without God (the real one).
Grotesque Animals, hardly worthy of comment.
Hmmm..
To show you the 'justice' of Islam.
I myself, would rather take the mercy of Christ. How about you?
Did you see anyone post an argument for going to war against Iran? Did the article suggest that?
Some prefer their 80 lashes DURING sex.
It's international news, and the rest of the article tells us something about the internal climate in Iran. You certainly are NOT going to see this on ABC/NBC/CBS, the NY Times or even FOX.
I'm sorry if you don't like hearing about how totally wacked out the Iranians are. I agree the Cubans are pretty bad too. In fact so bad that when THEY were starting to get nukes we blockaded their whole island.
Hmmm....
I swear...I don’t know if there’s any bigger bunch of pussies on the face of this earth than muslims....holdin’ a dude down and whippin’ him...not even enough balls to take their masks off....reminds me of the pussies in the KKK.
Cowards and pussies...every last one of them.
sorry Moderator...delete it if ya want too...
Certain people here laud this as an effective method for drug abusers in this country.
In English, if I understand your point, but I don’t think anybody’s pulling a fast one. A google image search turns up lots of that, for example on police cars.
This picture was probably just an error in the translation.
I think you are putting words in the OP’s mouth. Perhaps you can’t stomach reading about and seeing Iranian atrocities.
One can imagine what must have become of the woman.
I wonder how many punishments are random vs. political or personal vengeance—
Was he caught with a policeman’s daughter? Did he swipe another man’s girlfriend away using normal old romance?
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