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Islamic Republic of Iran: Four teens to have fingers amputated for theft

Sep 22, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 29 Comments

“The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent from Allah.” (Qur’an 5:38)

But remember: if you believe Sharia is incompatible with Western values, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

“Iran upholds sentence to amputate the fingers of 4 teens convicted of stealing,” by Hollie McKay, Fox News, September 19, 2020:

Iran has reportedly sentenced four men, who were tried in juvenile court, to have their fingers amputated for stealing, a brutal punishment still on the books under the country’s Islamic penal code.

According to the London-based Iran International, the three minors — Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharafian, Kasra Karami and Mehdi Shahivand — lost their appeals in the Iranian Supreme Court this week and were subsequently ordered to have four fingers severed from their right hands. The boys were initially tried last November on charges of four counts of robbery in the northern city of Urmia and have remained behind bars ever since.

It is unclear when the judicial measure will be carried out, and authorities have not issued any further details about the extent or nature of their crimes.

A June report released by the Iran Human Rights Monitor (IRM) underscored that Rostami, Karami, Sharafian and Shahivand claimed that they were forced to confess under torture, and one of the prisoners — Rostami — was in a dire health condition in the Central Prison of Urmia and had cut his wrists in protest of the upholding of his sentence earlier this year.

“Article 278 of the Islamic Punishment Law, the four fingers of their right hands will be cut off for four counts of robbery,” IRM noted. “The fingers must be cut off from the bottom, leaving only the palm and the thumb. According to Article 667 of the same law, they were also ordered to return the stolen goods.”

As a strict Islamic Republic, amputation is legal in Iran based on the Sharia law, which enables “amputation of the full length of four fingers of the right hand of the thief in such a manner that the thumb and palm of the hand remain” — although it remains relatively rare, with the death penalty the more common sentence handed down by the courts….

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Filed Under: Iran, Sharia Tagged With: Hadi Rostami, Iran Human Rights Monitor (IRM), Kasra Karami, Mehdi Shahivand, Mehdi Sharafian


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  1. Christopher Watson says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    President Abbas better not go there. There wouldn’t be much left of him.

    Reply
    • FYI says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 3:46 pm

      Didn’t muhammed STEAL from the khaibar Jews?

      Why ,he would have had to have BOTH his hands cut off for such thievery.

      And of course allah{predictably} gives full permission for muslims to steal from infidels.

      “allah promiseth you much booty that ye will capture and hath given you this in advance,and hath withheld men’s hands from you,that it may be a token for the believers and that he may guide you on a right path’
      koran 48:20

      allah ‘rightly guides’ his muslims to steal,murder{koran 2:191},molest women and commit adultery with enslaved captured married women ‘what your right hand possesses'{koran 4:24},bear false witness{koran 3:28}etc

      And stealing from infidels?
      Why that’s just a ‘token’ isn’t it of allah’s appreciation?

      {allah MISSED those essential commandments that the Actual God gave to Moses didn’t He?}

      islam:’commandments?What commandments?’

      sharia ‘law’ is satanic.

      These poor young men do not deserve such ill treatment.
      Unbelievable in the 21st century.

      Reply
      • Dennis says

        Sep 22, 2020 at 5:25 pm

        “Unbelievable in the 21st century.” They are not living in the 21st century. They are mired in the 7th!

        Reply
        • Anne says

          Sep 23, 2020 at 8:05 am

          In Iran 90 Children remained on death row as of 2019.
          https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-death-penalty-child-execution-un-human-rights-capital-punishment-a9169441.html

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 23, 2020 at 10:55 pm

          Yes–just sickening.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 23, 2020 at 10:14 am

        No, FYI … a hand and foot would be cut off on opposite sides.

        “The recompense of those who fight Allah and His messenger, and seek to make corruption in the land, is that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from alternate sides or that they be banished from the land; that is their disgrace in this world and in the Hereafter they will have a great torment.” (Qur’an 5:33)

        Reply
  2. Danilo dos Santos Fonseca says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    If would had respect the law… it’s not woukd happen but…. i want would had this law in Brazil much politicians already would without fingers all fingers. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 8:00 pm

      This thug–who despite his Christian-sounding name has been babbling about Allah slaughtering Infidels here–clearly has *no* problem with his savage coreligionists maiming children.

      God, I hate Islam.

      Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 9:28 pm

      Danilo dos Santos Fonseca,

      Please translate your post into plain, well formatted, and grammatically correct English.

      I have a hard time understanding gibberish…

      Reply
      • Giacomo Latta says

        Sep 23, 2020 at 9:03 am

        I understand his latest enunciation clearly enough. It sounds like Iran should hire him should their finger-lopping police suddenly be struck with the epiphany that they need their mental health checked.

        Reply
  3. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Why this anti-Islamic mollycoddling? Quran 5:38 says to amputate their *hands*, not just their fingers:
    [As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah.
    https://quran.com/5/38

    Reply
  4. DavidR says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    This is such a slap in the face to the millions of worldly, educated Muslims as some old men try dragging Iran back to Muhammad’s small minded 7th century tribalism.

    Reply
    • Sylvia Drummond says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 6:15 pm

      Worldly educated muslims? Do such people exist?

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2020 at 8:02 pm

        Not many of them. And of the few who do, even fewer will actually take a moral stance against the horrors of Shari’ah. This should not surprise, since this savagery is perfectly Halal.

        Reply
      • Red Pill says

        Sep 23, 2020 at 5:59 am

        Not many and part of them are simply practicing Taqiyya until they get the numbers to attack.

        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Sep 23, 2020 at 11:01 pm

          Largely true, Red Pill.

  5. Dennis says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    Such an evil-looking character!

    Reply
    • FYI says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 5:37 pm

      But maybe he has inner beauty?
      Nah.

      Reply
      • FYI says

        Sep 22, 2020 at 6:27 pm

        Maybe he could play the token muslim fanatic,a Bond villain.

        Ayatollah Marg bar Amrika
        {Ayatollah ‘death to america’}

        in…

        “Tomorrow Infidels Die Again in Great shaitan”

        Reply
  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran: Four teens to have fingers amputated for theft
    ……………………

    Just horrifying barbarism. And they want to bring this savagery to the civilized world.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 9:32 pm

      gravenimage says,

      “Just horrifying barbarism. And they want to bring this savagery to the civilized world.”

      Yes, profound savagery.

      To think that they belong to the same group of Homo sapiens that successfully put together the NASA Apollo program…

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 22, 2020 at 9:39 pm

        Yes–and pious Muslims want to pull down all of the civilized world’s achievements.

        Reply
    • E T says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 9:58 pm

      And through the Global Migration Pact they have brought this savagery to the civilized world. Somali gangs in Canada and Nigeria’s Black Axe – our new diversity.

      Reply
  7. Henry. H says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    One word can accurately describe this fanatical ayatollahs regime that also brutalizes the Iranian people – Evil.
    But anger and pressure should also be aimed at the EU countries that cuddle up, or more correctly suck up to this regime. Just look at how these despicable European governments, attempt to sabotage the U.S. efforts to curtail and modify the conduct of the ayatollahs. Had EU countries been cooperating with the U.S. closely and speak with one voice, the response from the jihadists ayatollahs would be much more measured. Unfortunately the aristocratic, political and industrialist elites have an unsatisfied desire to fatten their Swiss bank accounts and their off-shore secret money. More important to them than any human life. And this is the tragedy of the Iranian people – a Europe that sells them out – a total betrayal.

    Reply
    • E T says

      Sep 22, 2020 at 10:00 pm

      Agenda 21

      Reply
  8. Krishna says

    Sep 22, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    Barbaric Islamic thug Republic of Iran can’t spare even children

    Reply
  9. JamesC, says

    Sep 23, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    Amputation for crimes of theft does not, in itself, seem unreasonable or barbaric.
    There is a lot to be said for castrating rapists, and molesters of children. Not as a specifically or purely anti-Muslim measure

    A bit more ferocity in non-Muslim penal law might be no bad thing. There is far too much one-sided emphasis on rights. Too much humanitarianism is a very bad thing.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2020 at 11:04 pm

      I don’t think we want to start maiming people for life for petty theft, James. And–with all respect–if you believe that Shari’ah has such penalties for pedophilia and rape, you are *quite* mistaken. In fact, Islam sacralizes pedophilia of little girls as young as nine, as well as the rape of Infidels.

      Reply
  10. Laurence says

    Sep 24, 2020 at 6:39 am

    Interesting; and here I thought Iran, an orthodox Islamic and Quranic following nation (and others who believe likewise – admittedly, thankfully, not all people of those nations hold in common or practice such beliefs or teachings), believed that the Koran is the literal, unaltered and unalterable word of their god which was singularly thrust upon them via their prophet Muhammad. . . and yet here Iran has altered the Quranic consequences for such a crime. . . could it be to demonstrate just how “merciful” and “modern” they are, they decided to “just” (!) remove all the fingers from a hand and leave the stump, the palm, intact! (Even though they likely will now have to face hellfire for eternity for their great failing and disregard of Allah’s words.)

    Reply

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