Here again we see the empire of fear that is so much in evidence also in Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State, and everywhere Sharia is implemented.
“74 lashes, prison term for anyone caught eating in Iran during Ramadan,” NCRI, June 21, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
NCRI – Anyone in Iran caught eating or drinking in public during the days in the month of Ramadan may receive 74 lashes in addition to a jail term of up to two months, a high ranking judiciary official of the Iranian regime has threatened.
Dadkhoda Salari, the prosecutor general in the city of Kerman said on Friday: “Any individual who eats or drinks in public places could face a prison term of 10 days to two months and 74 lashes,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported.
Another state-run news agency warned the public that special patrols have been stationed at streets and public parks in Tehran during the holy month of Ramadan to deal with those who drink, eat or smoke in public.
“The police will deal with those individuals who smoke, drink water and other liquids, eat a snack or food in public,” the state-run ISNA news agency reported.
Last year hundreds of Iranians were lashed in public under the medieval laws of the religious dictatorship which can sentence offenders to 74 lashes and two months in prison for eating during Ramadan.
At least 200 people were flogged in last year in the Iranian province of Qazvin for eating in public during Ramadan.
In 2014, Qazvin official Ismail Sadeghi-Niaraki acknowledged the scale of medieval punishments now being carried out within the regime under the rule of so-called ‘moderate’ president Hassan Rouhani.
He said: “Exceptional measures were taken by the judiciary in Qazvin province during the month of Ramadan to deal with those eating in public.”
“Over this period, 400 people were arrested and some were given warnings. Another 200 had their cases reviewed by the judiciary and the flogging sentence was carried out within 24 hours of their arrest.”
Last year, a Christian man in Iran was sentenced to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in Ramadan. The savage punishment was carried out in public in the city of Kermanshah.
pdxnag says
Terror in any terror state must always be regularly refreshed in the living memory of the terrified population. Any offense will seemingly suffice, no matter how minor.
Angemon says
Any individual – islamic law also applies to non-muslims.
Ovo says
Who would ever want to go to such hellish country.
TediNeo98 says
…and this is what the west is pandering to, muslims who live in the dark ages. Eventually there will be a revolt here in the UK, people are absolutely fed up with islam and it’s creeping infestation in this country. There is nothing praiseworthy about this religion. Islam and sharia law should be outlawed completely.
Face_The_Truth says
Let’s look at and review from not so distant history!
American and British governments orchestrated a coup d’état in order to remove non-Islamist Dr. Mosaddegh from power in Iran and installed a puppet régime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi who favored Shi’iate Islamists while torturing to death any or all Communists and socialists in Iran.
Israeli government nonetheless played a crucial role in eradicating Communists and socialists in Iran by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
However, the irony of history is such that Shi’ite Islamists whom Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi along with America, France, and Great Britain favored actually came to power by overthrowing the puppet régime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 and made Iran an Islamic Republic.
Similar story did take place in Afghanistan as well where American govt. and the Central Intelligence Agency removed the non-Islamist government of Dr. Nazib’Allah and made way for Talibans and Usamah bin Ladeen to take hold.
America removed Saddam Hussein al’Tikriti in 2003 just to bring Sunni ISIS into power in Iraq.
Looks like wherever America goes and whatever America touches becomes ashes!
That’s why America’s defense or war secretary is named (or called) “Ash Carter”, because American govt. is very good at making ash out of human civilization everywhere it goes.
duh_swami says
If you hate America, get out…If you are already out, stay out…
t. says
duh_swami,
I think that you misunderstood what Face_The_Truth was trying to say.
Annak says
I think so too. But, face- the truth only has it partially right. A very. complicated history.
communists are on the same side as Islamists which WAS hidden. Although I would think more than obvious today !
The soviets sent hundreds of spies into the ME after the end of British colonialism, to spread disinformation and spurn a revival of Islamic hatred towards America and Israel through literature such as ” Mein Kampf” and the Russian ( debunked by the British) anti-semitic work ” the protocols of the elders of Zion”
According to former KGB people and Ion Pacepa former Romanian Soviet general in his latest book
Angemon says
Yeah, just look at, for example, Germany and Japan, who had American troops stationed there for decades after WWII. Or Kuwait, who literally had to resort to lies to get America involved.
Westman says
Imagine the bloodbath when the current regime is overthrown by it’s own citizens. The current Theocratic Dictatorship is sitting on a powder keg of youth under 26 who will want more humanity and less of Islam. Their parents are of the 8 years war generation and watched half a million men be stupidly managed in warfare against Saddam.
Watch out Ali Khamenei, if ISIS doesn’t get you, the youth of Iran will. Your days are numbered along with 10s of thousands of your henchmen, just like Muammar Gaddafi. Only Allah knows when it is written.
Westman says
Stupidly managed should be “stupidly managed and died”
kay says
Re Face_The_Truth:
“America removed Saddam Hussein al’Tikriti in 2003 just to bring Sunni ISIS into power in Iraq.”
Your statement is idiotic nonsense Face_The_Truth. Furthermore, you backed it up with nothing. Looks like you’re just shooting blanks. The US is NOT responsible for the Shia / Sunni divide. That divide is CENTURIES older than the USA! But let’s see, Ohhh, you don’t know about the Shia / Sunni split Face_The_Truth, nor even the age of the USA. How pathetic and clueless.
It is true that there are lots of bizarre would-be conspiracy theories claiming that – somehow – the USA and Israel conspired to set up Islamic State. Nope. IS and Boko Haram etc. are Islamic operations, just like they claim. Islamic State has strong LOCAL Sunni support. Islamic State has SUNNI fighters from ONE HUNDRED countries, over twenty thousand so far.
President Bush acted on false intelligence when invading Iraq, and there may have been economic and other strategic purposes. But the whole Bush plan was ill-conceived and fell apart. The Bush policy and mismanagement of that policy AND irrational policy by the Shia government gave an opening for Sunni militancy and later Islamic State.
There was no Islamic State cadre in 2003. So the USA didn’t support the “Non-existent Islamic State of 2003.” Nothing about Islamic State is good for Europe or the USA or Israel or Iran or Russia or Africa. There are many deluded Muslim people who claim the USA is behind Islamic State or set it up, but obviously that was never the case. Please go back to grade school Face_The_Truth and learn how to count years and centuries. You are just making a fool of yourself here.
gerard says
I’ll be surprised if the fellow survives such a beating.
particolor says
They were very very lenient towards him because it wasn’t a Ham Sandwich !! 🙁
gerard says
Such love!
Peter Buckley says
http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=64ee55048acaac9635974248b&id=01d630ecde&e=190bbd7e5a
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6000/shaking-hands-with-iran
Nothing is guaranteed to produce apostasy on a grand scale than telling people what and when to eat. The Iranians are sick to the teeth of Islam. When the theocracy collapses, as it will, it may not even be a “muslim country” anymore.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4213556.ece
duh_swami says
Missing lunch is a serious health hazard…Hunger pangs can set in, dehydration can happen, weakness of knees, profuse sweating, mental confusion, and staggering is common, you can end up in the hospital from missing lunch. The best thing to do to avoid these symptoms is stuff yourself with food and drink in the evening, and again in the morning before sun up, and you might make it through the day with minimal symptoms.
Mirren10 says
”Missing lunch is a serious health hazard …” 🙂
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2013/07/why-do-many-muslims-gain-weight-during.html
Mirren10 says
”As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking.”
Yep. It’s also about forcing people to conform through fear of punishment. How spiritual.
What sickening hypocrites they all are.
Salome says
There is no compulsion in religion, you see . . .
Kepha says
Well, our own enlightened rulers want to put people in jail for saying that homosexuality is a sin, are already ruining people for refusing to celebrate homosexuality, and in the UK they’ve already jailed a man for saying that Islam is incompatible with Christianity.
Lioness says
But nobody gets 74 lashes. Not yet, anyway.
kay says
Re Kepha: “Well, our own enlightened rulers want to put people in jail for saying that homosexuality is a sin…”
? ? ? ?
WHAT are you TALKING about, Kepha? How do you even make any sense? What is the concrete ruling body referenced by the blank term “our rulers” anyway? Are you referring to Luxembourg or Canada or New Zealand or the USA or what? You use the term ruler but I’m certain you don’t know what the word means. At all.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has actual rulers, Islamic ones. It is a tyranny and a theocracy. The Chinese and the Tibetans and North Koreans have Communist rulers.
The United States and Canada do NOT have rulers in that sense. The latter have appointed governments. And the US President etc. can be impeached and recalled. The US president is NOT a ruler, obviously. Same for most other countries.
So, are you saying that you live under Communist rulership? Are you Tibetan or Chinese or North Korean? Or are you Iranian? Obviously you know nothing about elective government nor can you construct a simple concrete statement to make a claim against a specific totalitarian government “wanting” to put people in jail.
You make no sense whatever. A government cannot “want to put people in jail” for “claiming some sexual act is sinful”, certainly not the USA.
That is a meaningless statement and it is irrelevant to everything on this or any discussion. If the Christians want to claim homosexuality is sinful – and they often do – then they have that right. It is canonical religious teaching.
You say “rulers” are “ruining” people. WHICH rulers? ? WHICH people are being ruined? ? What are you on about? Why do you make no actual sense whatever? I think the real problem here is very different and much more local. I think Kepha you need to learn to think straight and you need to learn basic English communication and back up your wild statements. You’re taking but you’re not saying anything coherent or reasonable.
Every person counts, not always to ten. Anyway, I have brought this discussion branch up to the sixth grade level. Like it’s hard to do.
Angemon says
kay posted:
“Re Kepha: “Well, our own enlightened rulers want to put people in jail for saying that homosexuality is a sin…”
? ? ? ?
WHAT are you TALKING about, Kepha?”
I think Kepha is talking about cases where Christian business owners were sued for refusing to cater to gay marriages.
Ren says
That is religious savagery !
tilda says
I solemnly promise to eat,drink and party in public as often as possible during daylight hours for the next four weeks.
lmcg says
can anyone vouch this story except from the NCRI source? any other links to different sources
kay says
IS hangs 2 boys for eating in Ramadan: monitor
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-hangs-2-boys-for-eating-in-ramadan-monitor/ar-AAbY0M3
The Islamic State group hanged two youths Monday after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.
“Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS hanged from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near the HQ of the Hissba”, the jihadist police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
“The children have been suspended by ropes from a pole since noon, and they were still there in the late evening,” he said. “Apparently, they were caught eating. “A placard was attached to the bodies reading “They broke the fast with no religious justification”.
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From this we learn the nature of Islamic Law in both Islamic State ( Sunni ) and Iran ( Shia ). Eating food in daytime is punishable by flogging or death under Islamic Law ( Sharia ). These Islamists are actually far worse than the Nazis and worse even than the Communists. Islamist Law kills their own people ( subjects ) for drinking water or having a meal in the daytime ( Ramadan ). This is beyond psychopathy. This is complete religious INSANITY. They must be against daytime breastfeeding too!
Islamic Law must be destroyed, blocked, mocked, and fought with all legitimate community and military means. Satirize those who behead others and those who hang others for drinking water / eating in the daytime. Save The Children – Make Sharia Illegal!
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