An update on this story. Just yesterday, reports said the sentence was pending, but authorities acted much more quickly -- more eagerly -- than that. The swiftness with which this ridiculous sentence was carried out suggests authorities are in a hurry: either they wanted to carry out the penalty before questions about the picture gained traction, or they have something else in mind. Perhaps both.
"Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon," by Nasser Karimi for the Associated Press, September 6:
TEHRAN, Iran - The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran's clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error.
With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed "any moment," said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian.
The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran's supreme court.
Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress.
"The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment," Kian told The Associated Press. "Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet."
Italy is among several countries pressing for Iran to show flexibility in the case. The country's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said the Italian ambassador in Iran met with authorities in Tehran who "confirmed to us that no decision has been made" about the stoning sentence.
"I interpret that in the sense that the stoning, for now, won't take place," Frattini said in an interview on Italian state TV.
Until it does. And Ramadan ends this week.
After putting the stoning sentence on hold, Iran suddenly announced that the woman had also been brought to trial and convicted of playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder. Her lawyer disputes that, saying no charges against her in the killing have ever been part of her case file.
In early August, Iranian authorities broadcast a purported confession from Ashtiani on state-run television. In it, a woman identified as Ashtiani admits to being an unwitting accomplice in her husband's killing.
Kian says he believes she was tortured into confessing.
In the latest twist, authorities are said to have flogged her for the publication of a photo of a woman without her hair covered in the Times of London newspaper. The woman in the photo was misidentified as Ashtiani.
She was lashed on Thursday, Kian said, citing information from a fellow prisoner who was released last week. Kian has been allowed no direct contact with his client since last month....
I hope this will be mentioned on Saturday in NYC. This poor woman could be dead by then.
For Robert and those who think that Koran burning is a bad idea but support the rights of those who are doing it... consider this.
The Iranians are punishing a woman in Iran for the actions of an English newspaper. This means the Islamicists are already winning.
If the Church in Gainesville, FL doesn't go through with the Koran burning.. we have to consider that the threat of violence affected the outcome. The kind of thuggery we write and protest about here in the US but are unable to stop. How good are we to back down against the threat of violence? It has only served to embolden al-queda and its sister organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.
As others have pointed out, showing the truth written in the Koran will do one of two things to muslims and non-muslims alike. It will show they either stand with or against the Islamicisits. That's all good but at what point will we take a stand? When its too late?
Woe to all humanity for this barbaric regime will necessarily end as all such despotic regimes have always ended, in total war. Tens of millions will suffer unspeakable horror. The only mercy for us all is the hope that it will be swift.
After careful consideration of the "Islam problem" for more than 30 years I have come to the conclusion that our ancestors always knew and upon which they always acted, that it will end when we muster all the force of arms that we are capable of mustering and focus our energy on the goal of utter effacement of this vile cancer upon the body politic of all humanity.
The time for rhetoric will soon end. We are fast approaching the day when the force of law will no longer be capable of defending our civilization. As a society we must gather our courage as our grandfathers did in 1939 and prepare for total mobilization to face the scourge of a barbaric, inherently violent, and primitive ideology that explicitly exhorts its 1.2 billion adherents to rise up to effect our destruction. A global conflagration is inevitable. We must prepare ourselves and our children.
We will prevail. All wars are wars of attrition. The losers are those economies who run out of steam first. The entire muslim world GDP is a fraction of the United States alone so the outcome is not in doubt. The capacity of the West to wage war is many times that of the muslim world.
Woe to the present generation who has allowed the jinn of jihad to escape the bottle to which it was confined by our ancestors with cannons.
Muslims terrorize non-Muslims as well as their own Muslim women. This poor lady has been flogged 99 times and the news has been publicized so that other Iranian Muslim women dare not do anything that is not approved by those imamullahs. These people are terrorists at heart and terrorist by deeds and they should be dealt with in kind and nothing else!!!
Where are those millions of "moderate" Muslims(which our leaders and MSM so much tout with fanfare) to show their outrage or their outrage is reserved only for Motoon drawers and Quran burners and such other acts by infidels.
Iran's imamullahs are doing to this woman only what is prescribed in Quran. Oh, I get it - they are misinterpreting Quran - probably they did not read it in Arabic or they took those suras out of context or they find any other excuse to justify flogging and stoning of this poor women!!!
Where is the UN Human rights commission??? They never condemn any human rights violation in Muslim countries. Afterall Muslims never violate any human rights, they only follow Mo/allah's orders and for that they can't be condemned!!! Morons!!!!
The Muslims silence on the issue means they agree with the treatment...Allah loves slaves...
By tomorrow, the world's media will be flooded with the outraged protests of the OIC. This Witch Trial of Tehran with its medieval torture and humiliation of this poor woman can in no way be Islamic. Isn't that right, OIC?
Oh, I forgot, the OIC is too busy working on its next Islamophobia Report.
The hell is not to be found in afterlife.It is here in this human life where Islam reigns supreme ! Watch out my fellow non-Muslim friends because it is soon coming to be dominant in USA and all over the world within few decades if we non-Muslim dhimmis keep ignoring this Islamic threat !
Study hard about Islam's uncompromising position,ever-justified violence against non-Muslim infidels,and an even more horrible treatment of so-called non-muslim vilest creatures of this earth with extreme intolerance and distain.So that we are prepared and ready to confront this huge threat heads-on both intellectually and practically.
Greatest Thanks to JW and all people working hard to inform and educate on all aspects of Islam and acts of violence going on around the world to all ignorant Dhimmi folks here.
Maureen Dowd, any comment on how Catholicism is as depriving of women's rights as is Islam---or perhaps even more so?
David Liepert has a nice "moderate" apologia that I have a few problems with.. it is my main post today
http://hereticscrusade.com
IN CORE ISLAMIC TEXTS, MUHAMMAD REPEATEDLY ORDERED STONING:
In the most canonical hadith collection, Sahih Bukhari:
In the Qur'an "Allah" says at least 25 times that Muhammad is to be obeyed. That is one reason why the most Muslim scholars accept the Bukhari hadiths and a few other hadith collections as authoritative for Muslims: canonical hadiths show what Muhammad did and said, permitted and forbade.
It would be a cruel awakening for the western world to witness on MSM a real life stoning or see the victim of an acid burning or the back of another human being after 99 lashes. I've seen it as many here at jihadwatch have. There will not be a true awakening to the reality of the brutality of islam until the majority of freedom loving westerners see this sort of thing with their own eyes. So many are so ignorant to these realities. I pray for the enlightenment of the human race, for the irredentists of islam will never stop their encroachment on the free world until it is subdued or destroyed.
Wellington wrote:
Maureen Dowd, any comment on how Catholicism is as depriving of women's rights as is Islam---or perhaps even more so?
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Wellington, here's Maureen Dowd in the NYT on this very case. She chalks up the different attitude toward stoning in Islam and the West to—I kid you not—"clashing perspectives".
Of course, she then has to go into two-millenium-old Rabbinic law, and then claims that horror over this barbarity in the West is due to "the sheer anachronism of stoning in the 21st century", as if we were talking about corsets or buggy rides.
More apologia:
"Stoning is not prescribed by the Koran. The punishment is rooted in Islamic legal traditions, known as hadiths, that designate it as the penalty for adultery. While the penalty may seem savage to Western eyes, scholars say it is consistent with the values of Arabian society at the time of Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet."
And this is someone who is easily outraged by a supposed gender pay disparity.
She then natters on about how "seldom" stoning is carried out, which I'm sure is a great comfort to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, as well as the little 13-year-old rape victim recently stoned to death in Somalia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/weekinreview/22worth.html
Wellington, I hope—apart from reading about such horrors as these—that you are doing well.
99 lashes...all at once? The the horrible pain and swelling and infection, I wonder whether she is conscious at all, or caring.
Burning any religion's sacred texts, it only makes them cling more to it. That's human nature. Burning korans will even turn non-islamics against us. It's not a good idea to do that. It will make islamics more stubborn.
"so that other Iranian Muslim women dare not do anything that is not approved by those imamullahs. "
Amazing! In cases of tyranny, the people always forget that, in this case, the Iranian women have forgotten that there are more of them, than there are of the imams.
What have they got to lose after all? They only have their downtrodden lives, after all? The same appies with the way we're going, here in the west.
Well, gravenimage, we're on the same page again, which is very reassuring. Dowd is the worst kind of fool---well educated and talented but still deficient in common sense and moral intelligence.
It really is stunning to continue the encounter with moral equivalency reasoning. I thought it was bad during the Cold War, when rubes on the Left were ready to criticize the Soviet Union but only to the extent that they would also point out America's faults as being essentially worthy of equal condemnation, as though Jim Crow, indeed unsavory and very wrong, was as bad as the termination of five million kulaks under Lenin or some fifty million Soviet citizens under Stalin. But now, things are even worse in the moral equivalency game played by foolish and overeducated (or is it undereducated?) folks who go to great lengths to exculpate Islamic doctrine and its more "enthusiastic" practitioners by drawing faux comparisons to other religions, especially Christianity. It's quite instructive of how gradations of wrongdoing escape a class that ordinarily prides itself on detecting nuances of all kinds. The irony of this is inescapable to people of sense and forever elusive to those who lack it---Maureen Dowd being Exhibit Number One here in the dearth category.
Hope you and yours are well. Take care, gravenimage. The cause of freedom needs folks like you who never stop fighting those who would deprive all of us of liberty, either through ignorance or design.
This poor woman will probably be in a coma when they stone her to death, or maybe they will nurse her back to health so she can suffer some more. Muslims are pure, demonic savages and those who defend them are just as evil, if not more so. At least the primitive muslims have their hideous religion to justify their barbaric behavior; what's Dowd's excuse? How could any educated, civilized Western liberal make excuses for these Satanic bastards and their vile religion?
“Burning any religion's sacred texts, it only makes them cling more to it… It will make islamics more stubborn.”
You mean you don’t want to spoil all the cooperation, warm feelings, and “interfaith outreach” that we got goin’ on with the Believers at the moment?
Hmmm, you sure you’ve thought this thing all the way through, allat?
Wellington, if you didn't see this before, I offer it now for your (lighter) reading pleasure. Considering how odious the green-eyed witch is, I don't mind promoting it a little bit:
http://eleanorruth.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/new-on-bookshelves-the-maureen-dowd-guide-to-flushing-that-ignorant-911-trauma-out-of-your-system.html
Well done, Eleanor. It reads as though it could have been published in The Onion. (I particularly loved the deliciously vicious 78 years comment.) Well, just as Islam must be mocked, so should useful idiots like MD. Thanks. I needed a good laugh before I went to bed.
Thanks Wellington, and you're welcome! I've always been a big fan of the Onion, and so I try to model ER'sB after it as much as possible.
Sleep tight!
~Eleanor
Excellent, Eleanor!
I am off to bed also; Now I’ll do it with a chuckle.
Are you guys ever going to make a mobile version of this site? I cannot load it on my Blackberry because it comes up as too large.
The Mullah clique of Iran are evil bastards
http://schnellmann.org/stoning_bukhari_muslim.pdf
Many stoning ahadih Sahih ("reliable") Bukhari & Muslim
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http://newstime.co.nz/german-911-mosque-in-hamburg-closed-taiba-former-al-quds.html
Inquiry to Ali Sina:
(answer from Ali Sina) “Arabs had four months in a year during which they never killed anyone, during which people could travel freely and go to pilgrimage.
In the verse you mentioned, Muhammad is referring to these four months.
Addressing the Pagans who had come to pilgrimage in the same years that Mecca was conquered, Muhammad says I will not kill you during these four holy months, but after that you must either convert or you’ll be dealt with my sword.
These four months grace applied only to that year. After the lapse of those four months everyone was expected to convert to Islam or face the Islamic army.
The prohibition of killing during the sacred months was a Pagan tradition. Muhammad broke that tradition six months after he migrated to Medina when he sent eight men to Nakhla with an instruction to raid a small merchant caravan during those sacred months.
It is not unlawful for Muslims to kill at any time of the year.” ....
...Today many Muslims kill direct after the fasting month Ramadan very many unbelievers.
The fourth meaning of Ramadan is called “Sharpen” and “peak” of the sword or the spear, to prepare for battle....
I = intolerant
S = savage
L = ludicrous
A = amoral
M = malevolent
From what l have read and heard muslims speak of their cult, it is like they think everything is preordained, they cannot change things since their allah knows all and so they accept what ever comes their way. While we in the West question everything thing and do not always accept the status quo. muslims living in the West must become unhinged with this free thinking.
It's called "inshallah fatalism."
@KimPossible although I use a Sony Erikson not a Blackberry, I'm sure the principle is the same, so try what I do. . .download for free the Opera Mini browser, version 4.2, from the main Opera site, adjust the settings to mobile view. . .and follow JWatch on the move as I have done for two years now.
...i am sick and tired of arrogant muslims playing God...their vile beief system must be discredited throughout the civilised nations
Thanks Davegreybeard! There's lots of other good stuff there too, feel free to partake anytime! :D
Lashed 99 times and more coming...The final insult...rape before execution. No Allah's Paradise for you...Your final act of defiance to Allah is illegal sex with the prison guards...For that you get the furnace...
Quran 5:33 says nothing about rape, but that's only because Mahound didn't think about it at the time...The Mullahs in Iran seemed to have figured the rape part out on their own...
"The Mullahs in Iran seemed to have figured the rape part out on their own..."
With Islam, big Mo created the invironment and the Islamic men knew what to do. Big Mo was a perp who knew perfectly well what he was doing.
These Islamic perps defiled and destroyed this women in this life and in the next.
Recently, this woman's son has gone to the international community asking how "the world" could sit by and do nothing about this travesty: "Where is the world's compassion?" Yet Brazil has offered her asylum, the Vatican has tried to advocate for her, and "the world" has expressed nothing but outrage. "The world", though, isn't in charge of this case. It's all under the control of the ISLAMIC Republic of Iran.
The ISLAMIC Republic of Iran allows stoning for adultery (alleged or actual), hanging children for being gay, and beating up women for not complying with their dress code.
The ISLAMIC Republic of Iran does not recognize Israel's right to exist or that the Holocaust ever happened; the ISLAMIC Republic of Iran is opposed to any kind of religious or individual freedom.
We need to get in the habit of always referring to this country by its official name, the Islamic Republic of Iran, to ensure that everyone remains aware that "the religion of peace" is at the heart of that nasty little regime. Same with the ISLAMIC Republics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. I would love to see our major news networks use "the Islamic Republic of...." whenever a story comes out of one of these places.
"I very quickly threw this guide together, like I do with most of my writings, and my message for Americans is to get the hell over it and stop whining about a bunch of dead office workers already! It's yesterday's news! It could just as easily have been a fire started by a coffee maker, or something."
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Eleanor, that's brilliant!
It's not so far off the mark, either—no more that a month after 9/11 I heard some moron going on about traffic fatalities on the New Jersey Turnpike, as though this was a reasonable comparison.
Thanks graven. I take out my frustrations with such people and their moonbat views by writing about them/it. By at least amusing myself, I end up feeling better. :D
Islam wants to stone this poor woman to death and here in the United Kingdom I have been threatened with arrest for 'hate crime' because I speak out against Islam......the politically correct world has gone mad.
"...the politically correct world has gone mad."
Indeed, they have!