Sharia alert from Gulf News, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Tehran: An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, local media reported on Saturday.The woman, named only as Soghra, was found guilty of having an affair with her husband's friend, the Etemad daily reported on Saturday.
She was also given a separate 15-year jail sentence for helping her lover kill her husband.
Death for adultery, 15 years for murder. Got it.
And this friend of her late husband, what's he looking at for his role in all of this?
Incidently when I went to linked article I found it had a link to another story on the page, apparently there's been a recent bombing an Iranian city.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=187045
Well, I guess Iran had better get serious about starting to enforce sharia, start cracking down on all those Christian churches (which are just popping up on every corner over there) stop letting their women parade around so scantily clad and, of course, stop supporting Israel.
\sarc
The original story is a little vague on this point. Does she get stoned first and then serve 15 years or is it the other way around?
As Razorskarr noted above, the "lover" is conspicuous by his absence in this news item.
OT, sorry, but relevant to dhimmitude:
Prospect Magazine's top twenty intellectuals are:
1 Noam Chomsky
2 Umberto Eco
3 Richard Dawkins
4 Václav Havel
5 Christopher Hitchens
6 Paul Krugman
7 Jürgen Habermas
8 Amartya Sen
9 Jared Diamond
10 Salman Rushdie
11 Naomi Klein
12 Shirin Ebadi
13 Hernando de Soto
14 Bjørn Lomborg
15 Abdolkarim Soroush
16 Thomas Friedman
17 Pope Benedict XVI
18 Eric Hobsbawm
19 Paul Wolfowitz
20 Camille Paglia
Arrrrggggh!! I hate to say what is the world coming to, but what is the world coming to?
No Jean-Francois Revel, Milton Friedman, Robert Spencer, Thomas Sowell, Bat Ye'or, or Victor Davis Hanson? That's a list of clowns, particularly the two NYT op-ed writers. Noam Chomsky must be an intellectual because his predictions concerning the real world are wrong 100% of the time.
As for the topic of stoning, where are the femininst groups? Oh yes, ensuring a very wealthy woman might someday be able to tee it up in Augusta, Georgia without getting a member to bring them as a guest.
Perhaps I should amend my last comment. There are some truly gifted intellectuals on the list, but Chomsky, Krugman, and Friedman are not among them.
No Tariq Ramadan? No Cornel West? No Jeffery Sachs? This list is not nearly as completely 100% awful as it should be; the presence of Umberto Eco at #2 throws one off.
But nothing takes the cake like having Thomas Friedman, the man who uses his fingers to "make" "quotation" "mark" "signs" "around" "words" when he talks, on any list of "intellectuals."
The world is flat, says eager never-doubting-for-a-minute Thomas Friedman. Platitudes, plongitudes.
Le monde est bien plat. Quant a l'autre, sornettes. Put that in your pipe (ceci n'est pas une pipe, as the dissatisfied customer complained loudly to the management of the maison close on rue Chabanais), you compilers of such idiotic lists -- and smoke it.
Tariq Ramadan was on the shortlist of 100. As was Sheikh Qaradawi, Red Ken's buddy.
After all, it takes a great mind to decide between defenestration and lapidation as the appropriate punishment for homosexuals. Big words, big minds.
Brought the thread back on topic there.
Hugh, on a day when my football team got an ass-whooping, you cracked me up against all odds.
Why are we letting, nay encouraging, people with this mindset and barbaric code of living to come Europe and the USA to settle?
Yeah, everybody knows that Dub, Dick, and Condi should have been on the top of the list! Oh, and Harriet Miers, Laura Bush, Bill Bennett and John Roberts.
You were right about one thing: completely off-topic. Now how about this:
Bush is handing your tax dollars to "faith-based" Muslim "charities" to fund Dawa and Jihad.
Any comebacks?
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Beagle chimes in with his own personal vendetta: As for the topic of stoning, where are the femininst groups? Oh yes, ensuring a very wealthy woman might someday be able to tee it up in Augusta, Georgia without getting a member to bring them as a guest.
Um, Beagle? I can only assume that you are refering to N.O.W. Do you know what the "N" in N.O.W. stands for? It's "National." That means that their focus is on a nation. And that nation isn't Iran.
Don't worry, Beagle. Soon the women of Iran will have millions more women to join them in their suffering: the women of Iraq. And guess who made that possible?
This is one of the reasons that I'm a liberal: secular, democratic societies treat women with more equality.
After all, it takes a great mind to decide between defenestration and lapidation as the appropriate punishment for homosexuals. Big words, big minds.
...and to point out monkeys stoning an "adultress" monkey (everyone remember that episode?)
All those great "Muslim intellectuals" can't even decide if Jihad is wrong, or what constitutes an "innocent" "civilian." They are carefully winnowing out the precise method used for infibulation, for instance, does the cut off flesh (clitoris, labia, etc.) get buried in the dirt beneath the girl's outstretched legs, or thrown in the trash?
Sound a glass used by a Jew be washed first by a Jew and then by a Muslim, or should a Muslim wash it twice?
When raping one's wife, should he beat her after as well as before?
Should a man rape his wives in chronlogical order of their ages, or in order of how long they've belonged to him?
Should wives be raped before or after slaves?
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Defenestration... they don't throw sissies out of windows, do they? (That was Edward Longshanks in Braveheart.) Don't they throw them off cliffs? Lately they've taken to lashes, sometimes thousands of them. And just last month they beheaded two homosexual teenagers.
What should we expect from a bunch of old bastards that made their first order of business (right after killing all the liberals, of course) lowering the age of marriage for "women" to NINE YEARS OLD?
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The craziest thing about Iran is this: Saudi is WORSE and they are our "ally"(GWB, Grover Norquist, and James Baker please call your offices.)
Defenestration... they don't throw sissies out of windows, do they? (That was Edward Longshanks in Braveheart.)
I thought that was one of 'Sheikh' Qaradawi's contributions to learning but perhaps it was cliffs.
The defenestration was the best bit in Braveheart - what a load of rubbish. Mel Gibson's 'Scottish' accent was worse than Dick van Dycke's Mockney. But now I'm really off topic.
KJ: Bush is handing your tax dollars to "faith-based" Muslim "charities" to fund Dawa and Jihad.
This is shocking and ludicrous and just plain wrong! What on earth is GWB thinking about?
Are the Americans powerless to stop this idiocy?
They omitted the Librarian and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. Fools.