After all, the only thing the label of "moderate" guarantees is that one is somehow less "extreme" than the next guy. Still, according to this report, even this decision is a logistical one. The prison lacks the facilities to carry out the stoning, they say, though perhaps that claim aims to mollify those who would tolerate no retreat under pressure from the stoning sentence.
But just as fast as this story came out, there was also a denial and claims the official was misquoted. Time will tell.
An update on this story. "Iran Fails to Silence Critics by Changing Woman's Death Sentence From Stoning to Hanging," by Perry Chiaramonte for Fox News, December 28:
Iranian officials, already under fire for sentencing a woman to death by stoning, has done little to diminish international outcry by instead pursuing an execution by hanging.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 44, was convicted back in 2006 for an “illicit relationship outside of marriage” and sentenced to death by stoning. The execution was delayed after protests across the globe, and Ashtiani has been detained in prison ever since.
On Sunday, the head judiciary, Malek Ajdar Sharifi said the prison does not have the “necessary facilities” to carry forth with the stoning and that they are considering hanging as an alternative.
Sharifi told the Isna News Agency that an investigation is being conducted to see if it is legally and religiously possible to execute Ashtiani by hanging and that once a determination is made, the sentence will be carried out...
so where is the man in all this? reminds me of the story from john chapter 9. perhaps he was a just another muslim holy man seduced by the wiles of an evil woman. god help these people.
Marisol:
I would call "hanging" instead of "stoning" an INNOVATION rather than "Moderation".
No doubt hanging will mollify the sensibilities of sympathetic leftists.
What gets me is that as the Islamic world becomes ever-more extremist, our way of dealing with it is to raise the bar on what constitutes extremism.
on behalf of all freedom fighting Iranians I would like to give my appologies. this regim as you may well know does not represnt us. Have a great hilday!!
m
Give Islam enough rope and it will hang itself. This decision will reverberate around the world, underlining the real meaning of rule by Sharia.
Imam Rauf, Reza Aslan, Honest Ibe ....... a comment, please!
"Iran Fails to Silence Critics by Changing Woman's Death Sentence From Stoning to Hanging"
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Gee—I wonder why...sarc/off
Remember, too, that hanging as practiced in Iran is considerably worse than the old "drop" method used in the West in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Of course, this is still less brutal *than stoning*. But then, what isn't?—with the exception of burning at the stake.
But the real crime is that this woman is under death penalty at all:
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 44, was convicted back in 2006 for an “illicit relationship outside of marriage” and sentenced to death by stoning.
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She wasn't even convicted of actual adultery—she *was a widow* at the time.
Islam is evil. The only thing that has kept this poor woman from having been stoned to death is the shaky attention of the West...
Absolutely correct, gravenimage. Under any humane and civilized system of law this woman has committed no crime at all.
The criminals here are those who are planning to take the life of an innocent woman in the most horrible way they can imagine.
Why are our governments not complaining about this? Why are our representatives simply looking the other way while barbaric conduct like this takes place?
Hi Smredneck5!
"Marisol:
I would call "hanging" instead of "stoning" an INNOVATION rather than "Moderation".""
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I would agree, unless you have monkeys doing the hanging as was the case with this nefarious dude:
http://www.break.com/index/graphic_saddam_hussein_hanging_video.html
"Stoning" is a horrible way to die; but hanging is not much better. Moderation my tuckas .... Yeah!!
This was what the "west" would call a night of consensual sex .... At the very worst she had sex with some man and at best it was fun! A night of consensual sex; no one got hurt.
But there's that .... there is no "fun" in Islam thing.
Where are those "Shaky Liberal Lefties" of the "west" who cry-out long and loud, at the "inhumanity" of putting a criminal to death for some heinous crime? ... Standing on the side-lines, talking about moderation. Sadly, she'll probably die for what the "west" would call a night of consensual sex. She'll die while the Shaky Liberal Left turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to her plight ... Islamic moderation.
Where is the other half to this “illicit relationship outside of marriage”???? Yeah, good question, ... where is this guy? ... It may take two to tango in "all" the rest of the world, but in islam, there's only one person who pays the price; the woman. In Islam the picture of the woman is always the temptress; a woamn tempts men, causes them to sin ... stumble. A woman must be controlled, subdued .... her actions and sexuality covered ... hidden. Like a shameful thing.
Just another snap shot of Islam ... the religion of purity ... PURE EVIL!!!
I think they use cranes to hang people in Iran.
Snuffing a woman should be very satisfying to these monsters as I contend that they "get off" on it on some deviant sexual level.
The cable news has been yapping about Bad Iran all day but nothing about this. Don't want to question Sharia, no sir.
Very true, Aardvark and Bingo.
Despite these troubling dispatches from Dar-al-Islam, I would like to wish you both a very Happy New Year!
Strange, I do not see anything in regards to hanging in what I've read in the Quran or Hadith. I wonder how they can get away with this within their own religious beliefs. God bless all of those who are persecuted... and for Jihad Watch for putting the spotlight on such matters
I spelled out a variety of verses in the Hadith in my blog post here if anyone is interested in reading:
"To Stone or not to Stone, That is the Question"
www.islaminquisition.blogspot.com