Iran 'adulterer' stoned to death

Source: BBC

The Iranian judiciary says a man has been stoned to death for adultery - the first time it has confirmed such an execution in five years.

Jafar Kiani was executed last week in a village in north-west Qazvin province.

Amnesty International said Mr Kiani and Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, 43, were convicted of adultery more than a decade ago.

Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said: "To execute anyone by stoning is barbaric and disgraceful. To execute a woman for adultery in this cruel way simply beggars belief.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6288156.stm

"A man was executed in Iran for having slept with another man's wife in the mid-1990s. In preparation for his execution, he was buried up to his waist, his hands were tied behind his back, a white sheet was draped over his head, and villagers who wished to look or feel morally superior picked up rocks the size of grapefruit and threw them at the man's head. When a rock found its target, a distinct thump and soft crack could be heard, followed by hurrahs from the stone throwers. The man's body began to weave and reel as spots of blood began to appear on the sheet. Soon, the cloth became blood soaked, and blood dripped and flowed down the sheet. The man slumped forward and stayed that way. However, the stone throwers continued their fusillade. Finally, after many minutes with no signs of reaction from the man, a man in religious uniform halted the stone throwers and congratulated them for their efforts. The sheet was removed. The criminal's head appeared staved in, both eyes had popped from the sockets, had then been smashed flat, and were left dangling by their nerves. Deep lacerations covered the purple, misshapen flesh of the face. The teeth were gone. Chunks of hair were left dangling from flaps of scalp excavated by the stones. The stone throwers remained in an agitated, excited state, clearly satisfied that justice had been done and Shari'a law respected."

That should about do it.

another being isn't even human as far as I am concerned. Sometimes "humanity" repulses me. Lately, it's been most of the time.

stoning for adultery, homosexuality, and sassing one's parents. Probably for wearing that evil cotton-polyester blend, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism
http://simplyappalling.blogspot.com/2004/07/dominionism-and-yurica-report.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/DirectoryRiseOfDominionismInAmerica.html

however, that's not practiced in the US either. Unless I'm mistaken, perhaps state-sanctioned stonnings are far more common here in the US than I thought.

I have a feeling that is such a system was imposed the people of the US, then there would be mass revolts.

I don't exactly mind roasting any of them over an open fire. They could be martyrs and dead so we'd both be happy.

"I mean, maybe we should just stone Democrats, and leave us republicon pervert hypocrites alone because we have !00% pure morality ratings from the Christian Coalition and stuff."

- Senator Vitter (R)

when it's government sponsored. The comparison is beyond ridiculous.

is not worth invading another country and causing the murder of hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

So give it a rest. We're not buying it.

We can condemn extreme cruelty wherever we find it. To think such condemnation requires an invasion to follow is a non sequitur writ large. There are plenty of ways not involving military force to help bring the Iranian penal code forward a few centuries.

PS we can even condemn extreme cruelty elsewhere if our own nation is not perfect.

I'm sure that the three aircraft carriers going to Iran and the $650 billion dollar military spending package are intended to prevent someone from getting stoned in Iran.

I am trying not to hear Rudy Giuliani's Norman Podheretz, Joe Leiberman, Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol calling for invasions of Iran (while McCain is singing about it in the background).

That kind of response is disingenuous at best. We know what this is all about.

Bushco is a separate matter together. Your posts imply that merely by mentioning the extraordinary viciousness of stoning in Iran we here have formed a secret invasion cabal.

Try to keep the matters separate. I find stoning in Iran under Shari'a to be about as nasty as it gets. You're afraid to criticize Iran lest we find ourselves in an invasion? You're okay with it as long as it happens to other people in other lands?

Who are you?

Why can't we just comment about how it hughly sucks???

Post a story on another one and I'll try and find the time to comment. And no, I don't support the death penalty in this country either. This nonsense about not being able to comment because the chimp has designs on Iran is stupid.

Try Norman Podheretz, Dick Cheney, Joe Leiberman, Glen Beck, Michael Savage and any number of right wing Neocon hacks who are broadcasting to millions all day every day.

And the invader in chief keeps saying it "isn't off the table."

I mean, you really can't be serious.

The implication was that somehow the original post was part of the pressure to invade Iran.

We're supposed to keep our mouths shut about this barbarity because THAT'S gonna send smirky over there? Does that honestly make sense in your head?

IS EVERY subject area an attack on your pet peeves ?

I mean .. Cmon ..... not a WORD was mentioned about invasion : It's all about barbaric theocratic practices ......

So now we must shut up about such barbarism lest you consider it fodder for Neocon war love ?

Give US a fuckin break ....

:eyes:

I'll take a bullet to the head over death by stoning.

reason to want to invade Iran! :bounce:

lets go get stoned,
lets go get stoned.

Just saying.

Send Norm Coleman along - he seems to love getting stoned.

in my mind, for women, the stones kill you faster?? my gawd!!



Under the punishment of stoning, a male convict is buried up to his waist with his hands tied behind his back, while a female offender is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried.

The stoning brings to at least 110 the number of executions carried out in the Islamic republic so far this year, most of them by hanging and often in public.

Equatorial Guinea urged to "stop the killings"
afrol News, 6 July - The human rights group Amnesty International yesterday evening urged the government of Equatorial Guinea to stop the "extrajudicial executions, torture and rape by security personnel" in the country. The oil rich Central African dictatorship is known as one of the world's worst violators of human rights.

http://www.afrol.com/articles/13575

Equatorial Guinea has oil deals with US oil companies, therefore the outrageous human rights abuses are ignored.


Here's a photo of Condi with the butcher. She called this mass murderer her "good friend".

Source: International Herald Tribune


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/11/africa/11iran.php

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Source: The Guardian


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2123914,00.html

I am desperately seeking a problem. But I can't find any problem with this.

You got some messed up moral compass.

Or do you mean the fact that his sentence was carried out even though the practice has been outlawed?

Just to save you time:

I am not a fan of stoning. In fact, I've been successfully avoiding for quite a few years. But if that's what they want to do in their country... If that's the law and the guy broke it, then what's the problem?

On the issue of the sentence being carried out 5 years after the practice was outlawed, I don't see why they would do that. But I am not going to join a protest over it. There are other problems in the world.

By that logic the Nazi persecutions of Jews were fine. "I'm not a fan of it, but if that's what they want to do in their country, that's the law, then what's the problem?"

I'm sure you would't like it here if we started stoning adulters. But if it did happen, would you just shrug and say "oh well, that's the law"?

Doesn't anyone at the New York Times or CNN give a damn about the other human rights abuses in the world?
Where's the report about ethnic cleansing in Burma? Where's the concern for the tortured in Equatorial Guinea?
Or the torture whippings in Saudi Arabia? The mass murder of Chinese farmers protesting the theft of their land for the benefit of Western corporations?

The "concern" in our government and media about Iran's abuses is as fake as a three dollar bill.

I am not suggesting all laws are fine. But this one is not racist, and does not involve persecution of any citizen based on what he/she is. Its made clear that adultery is a crime. I have no problem with that. The punishment is severe. I am not a fan of stoning, as I said. But there is no comparison between this and the intended extermination of Jews by the Nazis. That's ridiculous.

As for your second point, I don't have any problem with making adultery illegal.

Of course the Bible advocates these punishments too. Thankfully, most Biblical literalists aren't really serious in their claims about Biblical infallibility, or the God fearing U.S. Republicans would be agitating for this as well.

At the thought of this, I'm sure.

They like to talk about "stoning adulterers" , but I don't think they have a clue as to how horrible that kind of death is. If you actually handed them a rock at a stoning they'd run screaming.

Basically, they're all cowards who like to hide behind big authoritarian figures.