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Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic: "Iranian sisters face stoning for adultery: report," from AFP (thanks to all who sent this in):
Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying.The two were found guilty of adultery -- a capital crime in Islamic Iran -- after the husband of one sister presented video evidence showing them in the company of other men while he was away.
"Branch 23 of the supreme court has confirmed the stoning sentence," said their lawyer, Jabbar Solati.
The penal court of Tehran province had already sentenced the sisters identified only as Zohreh, 27, and Azar (no age given) to stoning, the daily said.
Solati explained that the two sisters had initially been tried for "illegal relations" and received 99 lashes. However in a second trial they were convicted of "adultery."
The pair admitted they were in the video presented by the husband but argued that there was no adultery as none of the footage showed them engaged in a sexual act with other men.
"There is no legal evidence whereby the judge could have the knowledge for issuing a stoning sentence," Solati said, adding that he had appealed to the state prosecutor.
"The two sisters have been tried twice for one crime," Solati protested.
Under Iran's Islamic law adultery is theoretically punishable by stoning, although in late 2002 judiciary head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi issued a writ suspending such executions.
However in July 2007, Jafar Kiani was stoned to death for adultery in a village in the northwestern province of Qazvin in a rare execution by stoning that provoked a wave of international outrage. [...]
Zohreh's husband -- who accused his wife and her sister in January 2007 of having extra-marital affairs -- had planted a camera in his house in a bid to catch them in the act.
"She did not treat me well and her actions made me feel she did not want to live with me any more," said the husband, who was not named.
"To make sure I planted a camera in the house... When I watched the tape two days after, I found out that she and her sister brought over men after I left and had relationships with them," he said.
Zohreh said she had an edgy relationship with her husband because of the strict limits he imposed on her life.
"I was a teacher and loved my job but my husband did not let me work... he was always suspicious of me and thought our differences were because I had an affair," she was quoted as saying by the daily.
"I do not approve the confessions that I made in the investigation phase and I deny what I said," she said....
Posted by Robert at February 4, 2008 3:55 PM
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"There is no legal evidence whereby the judge could have the knowledge for issuing a stoning sentence," Solati said, adding that he had appealed to the state prosecutor.
"The two sisters have been tried twice for one crime," Solati protested."
I like to read between the lines. Being stoned for adultry isnt the issue, its being tried twice for the same "crime".
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at February 4, 2008 4:12 PM
""She did not treat me well and her actions made me feel she did not want to live with me any more," said the husband,..."
...the husband probably behaved in a typical paranoid Muslim male way....domineering and violent towards the women....
...old rule...do not marry Muslims...
at February 4, 2008 4:15 PM
...old rule...do not marry Muslims...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at February 4, 2008 4:15 PM
Amen.
Posted by: darcy at February 4, 2008 4:44 PM
...old rule...do not marry Muslims...
Yea but Muslim women do not have that choice.
Even here in the US.
Remember Amina and Sarah.
at February 4, 2008 5:33 PM
Got a wife that won't put up with your crap, nothing that a little stoning won't cure. And then you can get a younger newer replacement. How does one justify letting people of this ilk into our country?
Posted by: never_submit at February 4, 2008 6:24 PM
Taking the message of Mohammed Bob Dylan too literally:
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody-must-get-stoned.
at February 4, 2008 6:29 PM
"She did not treat me well and her actions made me feel she did not want to live with me any more," said the husband, who was not named.
Well doooooooooooooooohhhh
Posted by: OLD SARGE at February 4, 2008 7:43 PM
I don't get it. I thought Muhammad had established exceptionally, one might even say unreasonably, high proof standards for adultery. Four or five first hand witnesses, wasn't it? Or does "being in the presence of another man" constitute adultery in itself? Robert, please, how does this jibe with your various schools of Islamic jurisprudence? Or do Muslims just ignore all that crap when they feel like murdering uppity women?
Posted by: Karl Pov at February 5, 2008 2:34 AM
Karl Pov
quick answer to your question - yes they do (that is, they 'ignore all that crap', as you put it).
have you read Spencer's 'Religion of Peace: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't'? There's a chapter there, on the contemporary treatment of women in the Muslim world. 'Women in the West vs Burqas and Beatings'. Read that one.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at February 5, 2008 5:36 AM
But I thought our little buddy Mahmoud Ahmabignutjob said that stoning "didn't exist" in Iran, and that bad people were just "making it up" to damage Iran's immaculate reputation as a human rights champion???
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I saw a rerun of the flick, Young Guns, this weekend. In the last firefight, Billy the Kid yells out to Pippen (one of the bad guy Murphy's henchmen): "Hey Pippen! I see ya got Johnny Crawford with ya out there!"
Pippen: "Yeah, I got him out here, Billy!"
Billy jumps up, shoots Johnny Crawford right between the eyes, takes cover again, and shouts: "Hey Pippen! Johnny Crawford ain't with ya anymore!"
Just like there aren't any gays or stonings in Iran, either.
at February 5, 2008 8:24 AM
Just being in the company of an unrelated man can get you stoned to death.
Was the wife's sister also married? Apparently they are both accused of extra-marital affairs. So what about the sister's husband?
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at February 5, 2008 10:00 AM
I know, this is divorce Iranian style!
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 5, 2008 12:01 PM
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