Iranian widow faces being stoned to death in days

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    interesting how the human exterminators from the other thread have not commented in this one....their silence speaks volumes to me...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    interesting how the human exterminators from the other thread have not commented in this one....their silence speaks volumes to me...

    +1

    Some people find it difficult to step outside the cozy little bubble of fear and prejudice they've created for themselves, and to look at the world with some wider perspective. No doubt the thought of someone being murdered by the state in an Arab country is abhorrent and offensive to them, but at the same time they cheer the same thing happening to people in their own country.

    Some people just need to open their eyes and grow up/evolve.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    interesting how the human exterminators from the other thread have not commented in this one....their silence speaks volumes to me...

    I think that generally when people here talk about the death penalty and are for it, they see the 'sanitized' methods of execution in the US. Methods such as this one which are so 'public' and violent/graphic (for lack of better words) really brings home that it is murder. I would have thought that those pro death penalty would still be outraged by the potential fate of this lady but may see this as a practice from a 'backward Arab terrorist' country and not make the correlation between this execution with the ones in the US. Maybe a bit like when one buys a nicely packaged steak in a supermarket, not wanting to link it to a live animal and graphic images of its slaughter. Keep it sanitized.

    TA - thanks for the link.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    redrock wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    interesting how the human exterminators from the other thread have not commented in this one....their silence speaks volumes to me...

    I think that generally when people here talk about the death penalty and are for it, they see the 'sanitized' methods of execution in the US. Methods such as this one which are so 'public' and violent/graphic (for lack of better words) really brings home that it is murder. I would have thought that those pro death penalty would still be outraged by the potential fate of this lady but may see this as a practice from a 'backward Arab terrorist' country and not make the correlation between this execution with the ones in the US. Maybe a bit like when one buys a nicely packaged steak in a supermarket, not wanting to link it to a live animal and graphic images of its slaughter. Keep it sanitized.

    TA - thanks for the link.
    completely agreed redrock. unfortunately there is nothing sanitized about burying a woman up to her chest and throwing rocks at her head... :x
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    I'll sign that petition when I get home. Thanks for the link
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    I'll sign that petition when I get home. Thanks for the link
    do you have a link to that news? i have not had a chance to look for it. thank you DT.
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    I'll sign that petition when I get home. Thanks for the link
    do you have a link to that news? i have not had a chance to look for it. thank you DT.


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju ... th-stoning
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    She may be spared stoning but, unfortunately, there are still a number of women in jail whose fate is similar.
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    redrock wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    She may be spared stoning but, unfortunately, there are still a number of women in jail whose fate is similar.

    Sad but true.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    It looks like she is no longer going to be stoned but she still may face a death penalty.

    She may be spared stoning but, unfortunately, there are still a number of women in jail whose fate is similar.

    Sad but true.
    yes very sad but true.
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    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • JS276365
    JS276365 Posts: 3
    There are no words to describe the barbarism of this act. That this kind of thing still exists in the world is nauseating, yet we know it goes on in far more places than this. I have not heard from our president on this, which is sad. Maybe I missed it but he's usually not at a loss for words. If this woman dies by stoning or the Iranian government merely changes the method of execution, there must be consequences. What? I don't know. That's why we have our inert, incompetent politicians.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    JS276365 wrote:
    There are no words to describe the barbarism of this act. That this kind of thing still exists in the world is nauseating, yet we know it goes on in far more places than this. I have not heard from our president on this, which is sad. Maybe I missed it but he's usually not at a loss for words. If this woman dies by stoning or the Iranian government merely changes the method of execution, there must be consequences. What? I don't know. That's why we have our inert, incompetent politicians.
    ...
    So... what? We go to war... to kill them... for killing this woman?
    And think of it... what do we (the U.S.) typically tell people in places like France or Norway who tell us our Death Penalty is barbaric?
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    SolarWorld wrote:
    CJMST3K wrote:
    Until the people of Iran overturn their government, this will continue.

    Amen, we US citizens should be concerned with the crimes being committed against us. This is sad but a waste of time to be dwelling on.
    Well no one is asking you to waste your time on it...
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Has anyone seen the Stoning of Soroya M.?
    I believe it was based on a true story...

    It might give you some insight, gimmesometruth, on how it works there (i'm assuming the movie is factual)

    Here's the trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/inde ... ofsorayam/
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    what i find interesting in this - is that i'm sure many people on the right are outraged at this (as they should be) but it's the leftist organizations in the world that actually do anything about it ... the right are more interested in ostracizing iran and the politics while the left are the ones who are actually addressing the human rights component ...
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    JS276365 wrote:
    ....or the Iranian government merely changes the method of execution, there must be consequences. .
    So, along those lines, there should be consequences for the US every time there is an execution there? You don't need to look further than your back yard for barbaric acts.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    unrelated but interesting,
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/16 ... latestnews

    Godfather.
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    Godfather. wrote:
    unrelated but interesting,
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/16 ... latestnews

    Godfather.
    what's the use of pointing out that the mother was muslim? lol or this sentence: "The devout Muslim mother, according to the Sun, claimed her daughter lunged at her with a knife in her sewing room, where she prayed several times daily." fox news, what a piece of shit
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    _outlaw wrote:
    Godfather. wrote:
    unrelated but interesting,
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/16 ... latestnews

    Godfather.
    what's the use of pointing out that the mother was muslim? lol or this sentence: "The devout Muslim mother, according to the Sun, claimed her daughter lunged at her with a knife in her sewing room, where she prayed several times daily." fox news, what a piece of shit


    melloooow.....outlaw, but now that you mention it don't you find it odd that the laws and cultural understanding in muslim life have little regard for their women like that guy and his son that killed his daughter to save his family's honor or the woman that is or was to be stoned to death for cheating on her husband...talk about caveman mentality.

    Godfather.

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