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Sharia Iran: Five publicly flogged for eating in public during Ramadan

Jul 28, 2014 7:16 am By Robert Spencer

TehrancafeRamadan is a time for Muslims to increase their commitment to their religion and redouble their efforts to eliminate sin in their lives and live in ways that are pleasing to Allah. One of the ways they do this is by means of the Ramadan fast. And if they don’t, in Tehran and elsewhere, they get flogged. This is not piety; it is coercion and fear.

Sharia Alert from Tehran: “Five flogged in Iran for Ramadan violations,” Agence France Presse, July 27, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

TEHRAN: Five people were publicly flogged in Iran as punishment for eating in public in violation of the rules of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, state media reported.

The offenders ignored warnings from police and “ate intentionally” in the western city of Kermanshah, the province’s chief justice Ali Mozafari said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.

Intentionally! It wasn’t an accident?

They were flogged for their actions, he added.

Iranian authorities issue warnings every year to respect Ramadan by not eating or drinking in public. However, the fast is often ignored, especially in hot weather with people drinking water in the street.

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  1. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 7:38 am

    In the heart of an Islamically theocratic state that has ‘morality’ police trawling the streets looking for the slightest infringement of sharia law, ordinary human actions and deeds strive to assert themselves, much as a flower does as it strains into the light through a slab of reinforced concrete. It is that slab of Islamic concrete that would crush the life and soul of all of us. The day cannot be long coming before the world shatters it to pieces.

  2. umbra says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 7:44 am

    vampires enforcing their nocturnal habits on others.

  3. JMD says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 7:55 am

    I would hate to be diabetic is such an oppressive society or have any other disease that requires regular food and water intake. I doubt that the thugs who enforce sharia have any comprehension of such medical necessities or even care. Islam is a scourge on humanity.

  4. Uri says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 9:27 am

    It’s all Obama’s fault. Right? I knew Jihad Phil would agree with me …

  5. duh_swami says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 9:57 am

    Fasting means missing lunch…A huge sacrifice for Allah.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:14 am

    How can educated Iranians in a large city with universities still do this to themselves?
    Islam invaded Iran centuries ago and crushed their souls.
    Then …
    Ayatollah Khomeini insanity
    Have these people near the Iraq border forgotten the Iran / Iraq war that was triggered by the 1979 Islamic revolution
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4260420.stm

    Video search of the western city of Kermanshah
    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Kermanshah&FORM=HDRSC3
    http://www.iranchamber.com/cities/kermanshah/kermanshah.php

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 28, 2014 at 12:25 pm

      Advanced Note: to v–g
      chill
      The question is rhetorical not literal

  7. Jay Boo says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Everything Islam touches dies.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 11:27 am

    Yes, that flogging was terrible. Nevertheless this whole point in my keyboarding about Iran now is that just this morning on FOXNEWS at 9:00 AM there was a news story that Iran is now using the new funds that is is now receiving because Obama lifted just lifted sanctions on this Islamic regime to support Hamas with it’s murderous rocket attacks on Israel. Furthermore, with this information it very much brings to mind and just a few years back in the state newspaper there was an article written by a young Iranian women who just came back from Iran because she was visiting her dying grandmother in a hospital in Iran. She wrote that the medical care in the hospitals in Iran is so bad that hospitals in Iran are known as places to go to die and not get better. She further wrote that the rulers of Iran instead of spending the the government money to obtain nuclear weapons should rather spend the funds on better health care at the hospitals and other places for the Iranian citizens. She did have a good point in what he wrote. Moreover, with the news about the money Iran is now receiving because of sanctions lifted now being send for of rockets of death to send to Hamas instead of being spend in heath care by getting good medical supplies and care for the people of Iran only exposes the heinous, warped and evil mindset of the mullahs and other Islamic rulers who have all the power in Iran. The Islamic clerics in power in Iran have shown that they are interested in death and not life. This they have proven this by their actions in where they send the fund on and who they supply. What a sad and tragic fact it is that the Islamic regime that is in power in Iran is so thoroughly evil.

    • profitsbeard says

      Jul 28, 2014 at 8:48 pm

      Your last word in your final line should be “Koranic”.

      ” What a sad and tragic fact it is that the Islamic regime that is in power in Iran is so thoroughly …”Koranic.

      “evil” is a bit abstract and amorphous.

      We need to pin the tail on the correct donkey.

      In this case, the Koran.

      (Source of endless suffering …since it is built on resentment and not Love.)

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 28, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Sharia Iran: Five publicly flogged for eating in public during Ramadan
    …………………………….

    Proof that fasting during Ramadan has nothing to do with individual piety and *everything* to do with control.

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