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Stoning and Iran
Voice of America (Editorial)
Several people have been stoned to death in Iran in recent years. Ja’far Kiani, was stoned to death for adultery on July 5, 2007 in the village of Aghche-kand, near Takestan in Qazvin province. There are fears that Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, the mother of their two children, may suffer the same fate.
A woman and a man were stoned to death in Mashhad in May 2006. Two sisters, Zohreh Kabiri and Azar Kabiri, allegedly found guilty of adultery, face death by stoning.
Iran’s penal code allows execution by stoning as the penalty for adultery by married persons. The law even defines the proper size of the stones to be used: each one must cause pain when thrown at the accused, but cannot be large enough to kill the person with only one or two hits. As Amnesty International said in a written report, the punishment is “specifically designed to maximize the suffering of its victims.”
In 2002, the head of Iran’s judiciary, Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, announced a ban on stoning. Yet this barbaric practice continues and it is disproportionately applied to women.
According to Amnesty International, eleven women and two men currently face execution by stoning, many after grossly unfair trials. According to Amnesty International, women are also particularly vulnerable because their higher illiteracy rate makes them more likely to sign confessions to crimes they did not commit.
U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack expressed U.S. concern that in Iran “individuals are being sentenced to death, including by stoning, for crimes that do not meet the standards outlined in the International Covenant for civil and Political Rights, which Iran has ratified.” That Covenant states that a “sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes,” and that “no one shall be subject to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=14141
They need to stop bitching and start a revolution. It seems like Kalishnikovs grow on trees in that part of the world, so if they want freedom maybe they should, oh I don’t know, fight for it themselves (the young Iranians that is)?
Not to worry....Obama says he'll talk with them.
“His government has turned to a strict interpretation of Islam as a way of reviving the revolution and controlling the population.”
Controlling the population. That’s the key there.
I appreciate your threads reporting regime atrocities, but I wanted to make you aware that the source you use, “Iran Focus” is pro-MEK. (MEK propaganda site)
That reminds me of something I wrote in a LTTE:
Christianity
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin." (John 8:1-11)
Islam
There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Gamid and said: ‘Allah’s Messenger, I have committed adultery, so purify me.’ He (the Holy Prophet) turned her away. On the following day she said: ‘Allah’s messenger, why do you turn me away? ... By Allah I have become pregnant.’ He said ‘Well, if you insist upon it, then go away until you give birth.’ When she was delivered she came with the child (wrapped) in a rag, and said ‘Here is the child whom I have given birth to.’ He said ‘Go away and suckle him until you wean him.’ When she had weaned him, she came to him (the Holy Prophet) with the child who was holding a piece of bread in his hand. She said ‘Allah’s Apostle, here is he as I have weaned him and he eats food.’ He (the Holy Prophet) entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and then pronounced punishment. And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. (Sahih Muslim 4206)
When the people of Iran have had enough they will probably do something.
Public hanging used to be a common form of execution in the United States. During our more “enlightened” times, crime has erupted and the criminals have more contempt for the law now than ever. If public hanging would deter even a few potential murderers, it would be justifiable again; how much is a single innocent life worth saving? Criminals should quake before the law.
“Ms Ebadi says she believes that there is a political dimension to the growing number of executions: “I see this as way of putting fear into society. They want to use this to frighten people, to make people afraid of voicing criticism.” “
The muzzies have been using these techniques to achieve this very end for over 1400 years. Absent a moral uprising within their own ranks and founded (or, at least rationalized) in their own brainwashed principles, they have no reason to abandon the greastest spectator sports of the seventh century just because some kafir, some infidel, thinks they should.
Islam is a cult. It needs to be eradicated.
Lock and Load.