Thursday, 25 June 2009
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"This picture was taken 20 days after she was lashed fifty times for being present at a family gathering where men other than her father and brother were present." Source: here.
I find this abhorrent. There is no way anyone could convince me that this woman deserved such a punishment. I'm completely incensed and utterly mortified by the amount of bruising and the supposed "crime". This is twenty days after the actual beating. Twenty! Two-zero! 20! That looks as fresh as if she'd just come home from the Nazi courthouse itself....
Why aren't people angry about this? Surely no civilizes human being of a minimal degree of intelligence would condone such a thing... but just in case they do:
"According to Iranian and foreign press, Zhila Izadi, a 13 year old girl from the north-western city of Marivan had been condemned to death by stoning after being found that she had been pregnant from her 15 years-old brother. The independent Iranian online newspaper "Peyke Iran" (www.peykeiran.com) that had first revealed the news last week reported on Saturday 16 October 2004 that the girl has given birth two weeks ago in prison, but the young girl had been separated from her new born baby after the birth. The father, a devout Muslim, informed the authorities about the "disgrace" the young girl had caused the family. While Zhila [has]been sentenced to stoning, her brother, jailed in Tehran, is to receive only 150 lashes, in accordance with Islamic laws." Source: here.
You know what they say: 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' For those that have never seen a stoning, take a gander:
Barbaric? Oh, I do think so. If not primordial. Boorish. Savage. Primitive. Inhuman. This is such an egregious culture... The cancer of Mankind as a whole. And for the record, in the majority of cases, the stonee isn't even capable of defending their body from the blows. They're buried alive.
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Comments (3)
Human are often bad. Toward nature, toward animals, toward their own race. All religion are claiming for love, but none of them (except some I hope, but no exemple !) are exempt of violence and harsh 'punishment'. That make me vomiting, but the best think to do is denouncing and fighting against.
I think we have to fight against this, as weel as against (often savage and without agreement) circumcision, excision, scarifications and things like that. I want to be teacher to prevent future to make things like that, and to make them free of thinking about all that happen in the world.
Haha, no prob!! I have seen your comments on other blogs, and thought that it was refreshing to see someone who is not completely into the PC bull that we are force fed on a daily basis.
If you've not yet seen the movie or read the book, you might want to check out the Kite Runner. I was just reminded of it when noticing your information on people being stoned (which occurs in the book). It's a very good read (or movie, whichever you prefer) and addresses some things that you would probably be interested in from the few things I've noticed on your blog (about the middle east, abuse, etc).
Thanks for the add--I will keep an eye on your blog, though I must admit that I rarely blog much on Xanga anymore.
-Mea