Iran ready to move ahead with stoning or hanging of woman convicted of adultery

The case of Sakineh Ashtiani was moved to a back burner after her death sentence drew intense international scrutiny and criticism, not unlike how Youcef Nadarkhani's case is dragging on more quietly after similar international condemnation of his death sentence for apostasy from Islam. In both cases, Iran tried to come up with other excuses to execute them and erode support for them.

The murder charge against Ashtiani, which was applied later, seems to be an afterthought below, and it appears to be the adultery charge on which authorities are moving ahead. An update on this story. "Iranian woman convicted of adultery to be executed by stoning or hanging, official says," by Ali Akbar Dareini for the Associated Press, December 25:

TEHRAN, Iran - Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction in a case that sparked an international outcry, but are considering whether to carry out the punishment by hanging instead.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is already behind bars, serving a 10-year sentence on a separate conviction in the murder of her husband. Amid the international outrage her case generated, Iran in July 2010 suspended plans to carry out her death sentence on the adultery conviction.
On Sunday, a senior judiciary official said experts were studying whether the punishment of stoning could be changed to hanging.
"There is no haste. ... We are waiting to see whether we can carry out the execution of a person sentenced to stoning by hanging or not," said Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the head of justice department of East Azerbaijan province, where Ashtiani is jailed.
"As soon as the result (of the investigation) is obtained, we will carry out the sentence," he said, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
The charge of a married woman having an illicit relationship requires a punishment of stoning, he said.

Muhammad participated in and endorsed stonings.

He said judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani ordered a halt to stoning in order to allow Islamic experts to investigate whether the punishment can be altered in Ashtiani's case.
Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 after the murder of her husband.
She was later convicted of being an accessory to her husband's murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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The sad thing about stoning is that the legislator (Muhammad) was never convicted of adultery, incest, rape, pedophilia, homosexuality etc..
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/muhammads-aunt-la-tante-de-mahomet.html

Mohammed "participated in and endorsed stonings." Jesus, by contrast, very effectively dissuaded stoning enthusiasts. Instructive for everyone, and part of the reason why all Muslims waking up tomorrow devoted Christians would be an infinitely better occurrence for the entire world, hypothetical as this is, than the other way around.

How can one so stupid that the coward sadist Allah is God?

5:38 "(thiefs) cut off hands"
24:2 "(adulterers) flog with 100, 80 stripes"
24:4 "(rape victims) flog with 80 strips"
24:13 "...four (male) witnesses to prove it?"

(homosexual) stoning to death 7:80-84
stoning adulterers (Sahih ahadith Bukhari + Muslim)

http://schnellmann.org/islamic-stoning-to-death-rajam.html
Islamic Stoning to Death (Rajam)

ah my dear wellington, your observations are always so astute and with such an economy of words...
like you, i am 'still waiting' for someone to show me **something** decent written in the koran.
the sole writings paraded by the taquyia artists peddling their snake oil to the leftards, are a total plagiarism from judaism and christianity...
so why have such a barbaric homicidal belief (the only original part of this 'religion') when you can have the original version?...
my very best to you and yours. enjoy this festive time of year and merry christmas!

The Great Persian Peoples will be elbowing each other in their rush to the stoning pit.


The moderate peaceful Khadr family attends the Moderate Mosque where the moderate Imam Aly Hindy give his pro-jihad sermons on friday's, he was also on *Michael Coren Live* a few years back and said he wanted canada to become an islamic state with Shariah so that adulters can be hung off streetlamps in public as an exmaple to all females in canada that disobey allah's laws.
The Moderate Egyptian Mohammad Elmasry told Michael that "All israelis over 18 are valid targets for Murder by terrorism".

Such a fun bunch of guys those Moderate muslims are.

Correct. The perfect man Muhammad never committed adultery especially with wives of killed adversaries. Ahhhh, no ......wait a minute.....

And my best to you and yours, phoenix, this Christmas season. May 2012 bring an ever increasing, inexorable awareness to people throughout the West of the menace which Islam poses to so many good things, certainly not the least of them being the right to one's own ideas about ultimate reality, with the concomitant right to openly express these ideas, without fear of bodily harm or death.

What are we to do with them?

Waiting at the bus stop, where we'll see Rosa Parks turned inside out.
Moslems, they're not axeing the same question; they know what to do with us,
Theirs is a 3-prong program: convert, submit or die; all from the back of the bus.
They're piling up like cordwood, combustible logs, each one awaiting activation,
Whatever we try to do with them, it'll already be too late, an untenable situation.
- the Holy Prophet APF

The last 4 goofs in the White House seemed happy to see muz unity. All that has meant is: unity under some imperialist force. And this time they will do it with tens of millions of fellow savages polluting the West.

Since when did ideological and theological illiteracy become a requirement for the US Presidency?

Spencer's next to next book title, for 2012: Depending on which dhimmi goof gets in: ROBERT SPENCER EDUCATES PRESIDENT STUPID ON ISLAM. Make it personal. Yah, I know, we have all heard Congressmen all but quote from Spencer's works. Unfortunately, their wisdom doesn't impact on their colleagues. How the hell can one speak out on world affairs, without even a modicum of understanding of islamic-governance? Khomeni, al-Ghazaly, Maududi, Talal, ibn-Taymiyah works are all FREE on the internet.

The case of Sakineh Ashtiani was moved to a back burner after her death sentence drew intense international scrutiny and criticism, not unlike how Youcef Nadarkhani's case is dragging on more quietly after similar international condemnation of his death sentence for apostasy from Islam. In both cases, Iran tried to come up with other excuses to execute them and erode support for them.

The murder charge against Ashtiani, which was applied later, seems to be an afterthought...
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Very, very true. And this woman is not even an adulteress in the true sense of the word, since she didn't begin her love affair until she had been widowed.

They didn't even accuse her of involvement in her husband's death until she had long been sentenced to be stoned to death—and until the West objected.

Iran will wait until those in the West are distracted or have their attention focused elsewhere.

This poor woman would *already* have been stoned to death if it wasn't for attention from the civilized world.

Of course, the civilized world doesn't have much influence in the "Islamic Republic of Iran"...

I just hope that someone out there is keeping a record of these Iranian legislators and justice department officials who hand down these sentences. One day we can round them up and dish out real justice to them. Malek Ajdar Sharifi and like minded primitive monkeys - your days are numbered.
You will miss out on the 72 virgins as our jails only have 6'6" guys serving life sentences who may just fancy a bit of your monkey arse - daily at your prayer time.

Umar was concerned that people would forget Allah's divine call for rajam...He didn't have to worry, they didn't forget...Some people think Allah's Quran order for rajam was eaten by a goat or camel. The people closely examined the goats waste looking for signs of Allah..They found lots of those, but not the one they were looking for...
I don't doubt that to the rational sane mind, rajam is evil, and only the evil could conceive of carrying it out...The same thing can be said of other barbaric and depraved punishments called for in Quran and sharia...Only the evil could conceive of them, only the evil could carry them out...The goat should have eaten the whole thing...

ALERT TO GLORIA ALLRED AND THE BABES OVER AT NOW:

AVERT YOUR EYES!!!!!!
LOOK THE OTHER WAY!!!! IMMEDIATELY!!!

And then go out and find another celebrity woman "victim" with some sort of alleged lucrative "claim" that can be milked for all its worth.

REAL suffering by women UNDER ISLAM is "cultural" and only time, lots of it, can help these poor women, right???? Helping these women would just give cover to "Islamophobes" and "haters" and we wouldn't want to do THAT now, would we Gloria???

If women didn't cheat so much the world would be a better place. Stoning though, well, that's sort of harsh. If you must stone her, do it with Marijuana. Of course then, you'd have to deal with the pissed off pharmaceutical industry as Marijuana is a better natural drug than anything man made. It's just such a double-edged sword.

APF, fine poetic assessment.

Samuel, if men could keep it in their pants more often the world would also be a better place. What's your point?

Do not regard women as lesser beings, as mere means to an end, or you hobble yourself in your climb to the moral high point above Islam. The choice in this election for patriots, for constiutionalists, for "unbelievers" of all stripes, for those of us who uphold reason and capitalism is clear. For young women who do not bow to the alleged commands of imaginary super-beings, it must be chilling to realize that most of "our" candidates see them as disposable and unworthy of owning their own bodies.

Ashtiani's execution, if it comes, will leave skid marks in the speed with which it passes through the leftstream media. 30 years ago we were shocked at the execution of a Saudi princess, there was 'international outrage', nothing was done to save her. It will be the same with Ashtiani.

A story of a Muslim hypocrisy and crime….

One Muslim woman virtue that belong to a one Muslim man, has nothing to do with some other Muslim women's virtue that belong to some other Muslim man [ I hope I worded it right …but please bear with me …you will get the point ].

I will tell everyone a story that happened a month ago in Aleppo and will proof that

The uprising in Syria caused, real crime to shoot up. With all the confusion, real thugs,rapist and thieves started to put on military uniforms that they stole from the Shbbiiha Army men, and they used to do their heinous acts.

A family was stopped in one of hundreds of check points outside Aleppo, by what, it look like military guys with guns but with no booth. Booths needed to be their to shield men from the bitter cold, and it gives identity to the Army with their Syrian flag wrapped around it.

When the father stopped, one of the men told all members of the family to step down…the father, mother,pretty daughter and a 10 year old son …that is by it self is unusual because families are always let go without search ….only signal men were being told to step down.

First they were told to give all gold and other valuables that they have on them, and then two men, held the women one aside and the father, son across from them, and they told the men to CHOOSE WHICH WOMEN THE FATHER LIKES TO KEEP …HIS WIVE OR HIS BEAUTIFUL DOUGHTIER ….the men as you can imagine had the dilemma of his life, he choose to keep his daughter because he thought a virgin girl, will be scarred for life from sure rape that is about to happen ….so the thugs took off with the daughter[ we thought the father should thank his God that they did not rape her in front of him]

The father helplessly drove back to the city with his son and daughter ….dropped them off at his mothers house with the excuse that he is going to call the useless Syrian police, but instead, he drove to his home alone …took his gun and SHOT HIM SELF IN THE HEAD …in pure disgust with him self.

This incident is not rare any more like it used to be …crime is every day …that is aside from the killings that is done by the Army …

Muslim Women and children are being used to make husband do what they despise to do to break their souls …but these same Muslim thugs will kill them selves for the thought of a women of theirs is raped ….

True hypocrisy …..

"I just hope that someone out there is keeping a record of these Iranian legislators and justice department officials who hand down these sentences. One day we can round them up and dish out real justice to them."

There, there, sure we will, now put your thumb in your mouth, turn over and go to sleep.

Meanwhile, Islam proudly does its barbaric deeds as we sit around seeking comfort in pretending to be effective. We even invited Sudan's butcher, Bashir, to attend the European Farce of Human Rights. Instead, he became a hero thoughout the Muslim world as our leaders quickly turned their attention to forgetting their impotence.

Our spineless leaders use democratic niceties and Christian principles as a cover, to shield Western civilisation's impotence in the face of Islam.

Try to be honest, just a bit.

At what point do comments such as those that you repeatedly make, run the risk of becoming, de facto, equivalent to those of a Tokyo Rose?

Ooops ….sorry

The incident that I talked about in my last post …..has a big mistake in it I hope readers understood what I meant to say …

I needed to say, '' the thugs took off with the daughter'' …..it should say '' the thugs took off with the wife ''

what I wrote would have made no sense otherwise

thanks for bearing with me and not so perfect english ….;-)

"At what point do comments such as those that you repeatedly make, run the risk of becoming, de facto, equivalent to those of a Tokyo Rose?"

Per-lease do not insult the intelligence of this site by suggesting that my unpallatable comments may be responsible for making things go badly for Israel and the West.

The cock's crow merely announces the rising sun. It does not cause the sun to rise. You are free to agree or disagree.

Point taken.

However: I refuse to say that it's over until it really is over.

And words have weight, even words in a blog, and especially words in a blog that has as many readers, from all over the world, as this one does.

Words that are relentlessly pessimistic may become self-fulfilling prophecies if they lodge in the minds of people who might otherwise have done something and subliminally program them to despair, and do *nothing*.

Multiply that effect by hundreds and by thousands - because not all people are tough-minded enough to respond to predictions of impending doom by rolling up their sleeves and stamping off to perform the actions that will avert the doom - and you start to get a major problem.

Realism is one thing.

Despair is quite another.

I would point out, in addition, that postings that continually hammer on the perceived weaknesses of the free world, and continually predict defeat for the free world and victory for Evil Islam, will certainly serve to feed ** the obscene triumphalism of Muslims**. Do you want to give them that satisfaction?

dda, excellent reply. We, the *decent* people of the West must never give in to despair. As you've said in another context, ' the laughter of Mordor will be our only reward' - I don't believe for *one second* that the free West will lose, but even if we did, I would rather go down fighting for the right !

Fineliving56—God, what a horrifying story—a real-life "Sophie's Choice". It sounds as though this savagery is ongoing, as well—clearly, this was not the first time this has happened.

I'm glad that you got out OK.

We see Muslims turning on their most vulnerable coreligionists here—as is common. The idea that Muslims are "compassionate with one another" is once again given the lie.

I am also terribly worried about Christians in Syria—including those who have fled Iraq because of the threats and violence they suffered there.

I'm not sure Syria is much safer for them at this point.

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