Posted on 09/15/2010 1:50:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Thanks to an international outcry, Iranian officials apparently have "suspended" the death sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted in 2006 for the crime of "adultery" (even though her husband already had died at the time of her allegedly "illicit" relationship). Yet her life remains hellish. This week, it was reported that, even as she was waiting on death row, Ashtiani got 99 lashes for the further crime of appearing in a Times of London photo without a headscarf. (The Times now concedes that the photo actually was of another woman -- adding an additional level of surreal suffering to what already was a singularly pitiful case.) This is on top of the 99 she got back in 2006, which would put her at a total of 198.
The only possible good news to be wrung from the woman's horror is the fact that the case has united the whole of the civilized world -- including Europe's otherwise morally relativistic intellectuals -- in unanimous condemnation of Iran's Medieval theocracy. Even the most devout Euro-pacifist can only be horrified at the prospect of this regime possessing a nuclear weapon.
And yet Ashtiani is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to "honour killings" in Muslim societies. An astonishing investigative report in Britain's Independent by celebrity left-wing journalist Robert Fisk (who has taken a laudable break from his America-bashing beat) concludes that the usual UN figure of 5,000 honour killings per year worldwide is off by a factor of at least four--and that the real number is about 20,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Imagine if a news agency falsely reported that someone flushed a koran down the toilet in Gitmo. Would they be sorry about the after effects of that?
Now if we could just figure out how they could finish themselves off compeletely!
I think a stronger case could be made for Starship Trooper’s Sky Chief orders to smash the bugs.
Exactly.
And why liberals support Islam is another interesting question.
“Old Ali Baba he’s a different species..”
Richard Thompson
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
Iranian officials deserve 999 lashes.
I AGREE! And the London Times has a very definite degree of “culpability” in this woman’s suffering!
Because they secretly hate blacks, homosexuals and women.
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