One of them was a Bahai. The Islamic apologists in the U.S. are chartering a plane as we speak, preparing to go to Mashhad to explain that Islam forbids stoning. "'Two men stoned to death in Iran,'" from AFP, January 11 (thanks to Twostellas):
Tehran - Two men have been stoned to death for adultery at a cemetery in the northeastern city of Mashhad while a third escaped with his life, the Iranian newspaper Etemad Melli reported on Sunday.The reformist daily, quoting a statement from a group of lawyers and women's rights activists, said the stoning was carried out at Behesht Reza cemetery in the first week of the Iranian month of Day, which runs from December 21 to 26.
"One of them named Mahmoud, an Afghan national, was able to save himself from the stoning hole with serious injuries, but two others died," it said, identifying one of the men killed as Houshang Kh....
An Iranian newspaper reported earlier this month that a man named Houshang Kh. had been executed for rape and adultery. It said the man was a follower of the banned Bahai faith.
What a surprise!
Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi issued a directive in 2002 imposing a moratorium on such executions.The rights group quoted by Etemad Melli "voiced concern at the stoning sentence being carried out contrary to Ayatollah Hashemi Shahrudi's order" and "called on the authorities to put an end to this punishment".
Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still theoretically punishable by stoning, which involves the public hurling of stones at the convict buried up to his waist. A woman is buried up to her shoulders....
There are arguments for and against the death sentence. However, those who advocate it, usually only do so for the worst kinds of cold blooded murder. I've never heard anyone seriously advocate it for manslaughter let alone a "moral" crime such as adultery.
And again, even in societies where capital punishment is allowed, it's agreed that it should be carried out as humanely as possible and not by a baying mob with a slow, torturous death.
Sharia law fails on every count.
But Allah knows best.
"the stoning was carried out at Behesht Reza cemetery in the first week of the Iranian month of Day, which runs from December 21 to 26."
To me, the date and the place suggest a winter solstice human sacrifice ritual.
Many pagan cultures sacrificed to their gods exactly on the first week of the winter solstice.
Chilling.
It said the man was a follower of the banned Bahai faith. - from article above.
And muslims will have one believe 'There is no compulsion in religion'.. until they can ban other religions and get away with it.
Shouldn't the religion that bans other faiths, be banned?
"And Muslims will have one believe 'There is no compulsion in religion'" --Alert
But the informed person knows that's an abrogated verse. It's included in the Q, but it means nothing.
I wonder, did they have the requisite number of witnesses? Didn't Muhammad, Piss Be Upon Him, prescribe three or four or six eyewitnesses necessary to prove any sex crime?
Cave men living like barbarians in the stone age. Bet they drag their wives by their hair, too. I feel like I've just traveled back in time reading this headline. I agree that adultery is wrong, but stoning is even wrong-er. Is that a word?
Stoned on Islam.
It is common practice in Iran for the courts to rule that since the Bahais are apostates that their marriages are null and void. That results in the Bahai couple to be considered under sharia to be engaging in extramarital sex or the husband is guilty of rape. All of which is punishable by death by stoning.
Iran the real axis of Evil.....
Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still theoretically punishable by stoning, which involves the public hurling of stones at the convict buried up to his waist. A woman is buried up to her shoulders....
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Not exactly "theoretical" if the sentences are still being carried out, is it?
Note that this is phrased as if it were some silly Western "blue law" that was still on the books--but hadn't been enforced in over a hundred years--like a small town ban on rollerskating on Sundays, or some such.
Disgusting, but what's new about that? Islam disgusts me every day...
Shouldn't the religion that bans other faiths, be banned?
Posted by: Alert at January 11, 2009 9:32 AM
An excellent question!
The difficulty is that who determines what religion should be banned? If Pat Robertson was to decide.......... well, you can imagine what would happen. If we decide what religion is acceptable and what religion is not, are we not establishing religion?
It is this constitutional issue which ties our hands legally and philosophically when it comes to combating the jihad. Islam claims that it has the right to replace all other religions with the faith of Islam. If we follow this logic, we would be unable to stop the rise of domestic jihad from Muslims who happen to live in the United States.
However, the Constitution (as it has been noted elsewhere) is not a suicide pact. The core beliefs in Islam are acts of treason in this country and others. We must understand that the advocates of Sharia law are traitors to the state that they have deceived into thinking of them as citizens.
The fault of our western societies is the failure to recognize that a tolerant society can tolerate the intolerant who are dedicated to the downfall of western societies.
Vell, just to see if this actually posts! TypePad, Key or what ever is the process for this site is so bad I rarely have patience to work through the mistakes it makes and then forget with the hell the comment was about!
OT, what I notice about stoning is that it seems Muslim women are more often caught and punished than men.
CLL1709 wrote:
OT, what I notice about stoning is that it seems Muslim women are more often caught and punished than men.
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Yes, this is true--but one of the victims was minority Bahai, and they have even lower status than Christians and Zorostrians (because they recognize a prophet after Muhammed). They are not merely considered Infidels--bad enough, in Muslim eyes--but apostates.
SaracensAtTheGates wrote:
It is common practice in Iran for the courts to rule that since the Bahais are apostates that their marriages are null and void. That results in the Bahai couple to be considered under sharia to be engaging in extramarital sex or the husband is guilty of rape. All of which is punishable by death by stoning.
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This is an important point--this man might not have been guilty of "rape and adultery" in the Western sense at all. We have seen this in other cases, like the thirteen year old girl in Somalia who was stoned to death for Zina--extramarital sex. It turns out she was actually a victim of rape.