The delayed execution will likely be taken as a gesture of compassion in some circles, but the Iranian authorities are still toying with the defendant, who doesn't know if her end will come the day after Ramadan ends, or at any arbitrary point after that, and at this point, whether she will be shot, stoned to death, or hung. And they are are playing a waiting game with the international community as well, biding their time to see the collective attention span wanes long enough to carry out the sentence.
Ultimately, they are attempting a balancing act between the imperative to carry out Sharia for the sake of the regime's credibility as an Islamic government, and managing the global public relations quandary that cruel and unusual punishment necessarily entails.
More on this story. "Final verdict postponed for Iranian woman facing stoning," from CNN, August 16:
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- An Iranian court has delayed the final verdict of a 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning, a human rights group said Sunday, two days after the country announced she will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,
The International Committee Against Stoning did not say how it got its information on the postponement of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's final verdict, which had previously been scheduled to come down last Thursday.
The group said in a statement that the final verdict in Ashtiani's case is now expected on August 21, the date of her lawyer's next court appearance.
Iranian state TV broadcast a program about Ashtiani on Friday in which it said that she will not be executed during Ramadan, which began last week, the International Committee Against Stoning said Sunday....
The mad mullahs enjoy gory sharia punishments...We can have that in the US as well unless Islam is refused the 'right to practice their religion like everyone else'...Rasool Obama...
"execution put off until after Ramadan"
So you can't get stoned during Ramadan, eh? Dang.
This poor woman is innocent. The judges decided she was guilty due their 'gut feeling', not hard evidence. Is that justice? No, it's Shari'a.
I = intolerant
S = sadistic Shari'a
L = ludicrous
A = aggressive
M = misogynist
JOHN 8:7
I wonder how often her guards will rape her until the disposition of her fate?
I didn't comment on that prospect, but I have thought about it...Seems like rape before execution is an Islamic staple...
Just the fact that there needs to be an "International Committee Against Stoning" proves to me how barbaric and uncivilized Sharia law is.
Are the mullahs too tired from the Ramadan fasting to throw stones?
"..she will not be executed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,.."
The "holy" month of Ramadan?
This is the month during which Muhammad received the "holy" Koran...(nothing "holy" about it).
The Accursed Book (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/accursed-book-le-livre-maudit.html
The Iranians should tell the Afghans about this "no stoning during Ramadan business". [see next article]
... the Muslim holy month of Ramadan...
Ramadan is a pre-Islamic month where the the pagan Arabs agreed to take a month off from robbing and killing one another. The month is not "holy" in any way, shape or form. It's a respite from savage behavior.
That the White House would host a Ramadan Dinner is an embarrassment.
duh_swami wrote:
"...Seems like rape before execution is an Islamic staple..."
Exactly...and then, true to form in Islam's "logic", they will bury her above her bosom to protect her modesty while she is being stoned to death.
Lovely death cult they have there, no?
islam is such a loathsome "religion" ...yeah "death cult" is a more fitting description.
WHERE'S THE LEFT??????
"WHERE'S THE LEFT??????"
They're busy attacking all those barbarian Christians.
" ... global public relations quandary ..."
i thought the Ramadan exercise was designed to make one righteous. why would the umma desire to delay the execution for mere public relations? seems that would make one unrighteous (guilt by association)at having not carried out what the exemplar had demanded;purge the guilty one to remove our guilt, so to speak. here, it seems, righteousness is negotiable, never mind hardly just.
Tit for tat, I think.
If anyone who had an interest in this case cared about the woman involved and those who will follow her, those who will be victims of the regime till it's destroyed, if anyone really cared at all, they'd play tit for tat. Iran's government has many interests around the world. They stone a woman, the concerned citizen might play tit for tat.
Of course, there is always writing a comment here. I do it often. Jihadis act, I respond by leaving a comment. Jihadis murder people. Sometimes I used deadly sarcasm. That's a trade-off of sorts.
The instant I found a link to the incredible The End Of Nations opinion piece I realized that Jihad Watch commenters totally have to be able to pass judgement on this link: http://hubpages.com/hub/Global-Union-The-End-Of-Nations
I just had an idea. If we could find a way to tinker with the super clock in Mecca, maybe we could keep them in permanent Ramadan.