Posted on 05/13/2011 1:05:15 PM PDT by Justaham
A woman who was blinded when a scorned lover threw acid in her eyes has the chance to get a gruesome revenge today.
A court in Iran has given permission for 32 year-old Ameneh Bahrami to get her own back by pouring acid in the eyes of her attacker, a fellow student at Tehran University. The court's OId Testament ruling - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - has sparked controversy even in Iran where medieval justice still holds sway. But Ameneh still appears bent on revenge.
Twenty-seven year old Majid Movahedi threw sulphuric acid in her eyes at a bus-stop in 2004 after he had begged her in vain to marry him. For months he had stalked her and she was left blind and disfigured. She later underwent 19 operations.
The court awarded her £19,000 in compensation and Majid went to jail. But Ameneh did not want the money.
She wanted her attacker to suffer the same anguish she was forced to endure for more than six years. 'His mother phoned my parents. She asked for mercy.
'She said that Majid would always work for me if he could keep his eyes. But now it's too late,' she was reported as saying yesterday. She has received death threats because of her determination to exact revenge. 'The police have told me not to go out on the street alone,' she said. 'My parents are scared. They think the judges are wrong.'
Arrangements have been made for Ameneh to inject the acid into her attacker's eyes as he lies in a Tehran hospital under an aesthetic at midday today. Twenty drops in each eye.
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Good Lord these people are touched by Satan’s hand.
Acid tossing....because all religions are equal.
Cannibalism.....because all cultures are too.
The “Religion of Peace.” Frakkin’ savages!
I have no problem with this.
So she’s blind and is gonna be slinging acid around? That should be interesting.
“MARCO!”........”MARCO!”.......”MARCO!”
Well, that’s a pretty good decision for a Sharia court.
She probably should have take the $19k, though.
I wish we’d do that for some of our more egregious murderers.
Not only touched, but possessed as well.
Something I remember G. Gordon Liddy discussing on his radio program back in the '90s was this: that a careful reading of the Bible in its original language (Aramaic, I think) reveals that the language "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" represents a maximum, a limit, not a commandment. That is to say, the language indicates that one is not allowed to punish to an extent greater than an eye for an eye. It does not say that one must take an eye for an eye, etc.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
After seeing her picture after the acid attack, her attacker is getting off easy with twenty drops in each eye.
She’s blind, her aim is likely quite poor.
You are NOT right. LOL.
As long as it’s not technically ‘water’ boarding, I guess it’s ok.
POLO!
If she is blind, how is she going to know where he is to throw the acid at him?
I wonder if unmarried young women will eventually have to go around carrying a three gallon canteen full of baking soda and water to use in case of acid attack.
May not be a popular sentiment, but I for one, am glad to finally see one instance of a woman in Iran getting justice. Usually, she would have been the one punished by the courts for daring question the man and he would have been praised for his actions.
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