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Iran
Iranian court sentences sex gang members to 281 years in prison
2003-05-06
IRNA -- A court in this northeastern Iranian city has sentenced 43 members of a gang, who married poor Iranian girls first and then forced them into prostitution in Pakistan, to a total of 281 years in prison and 222 lashes as well as cash fines.
Ummm... That's only about six and a half years apiece. And a bit over five lashes... For a bloodthirsty Islamic Republic, living in the grip of shariah, they don't appear to be using it where it'd do the most good. Seems to me, if you're gonna be against sin in all its forms, you might want to start with the worst ones...
The convicts, mostly Afghans who lived as refugees in Iran, took their victims among destitute and addicted families by tying the knot with their young daughters and then transferring them to brothels in Pakistan. "They would take them to Zabol or Zahedan (near the Pakistani border in southeast Iran) under the guise of visiting their relatives and out of the country to Pakistani cities for abuse," the public relations office of Khorassan Justice Department said Tuesday. The court further sentenced the convicts to paying six million rials and banned them from visiting the Islamic Republic again once they serve out their prison terms.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#2  tu3031: I don't know about the Koran or Hadith, but I read an article recently (I need to start saving the damn links)about the Shia practice of "temporary marriage." A Shi'ite can go to a whore, "marry" her, and then at the end of the lovin' state "I divorce you" four times and have committed no sin. Apparently, this is widely practiced in Qom because the seminarians aren't allowed to get really married until they earn their turban. I know, slippery slope is a logical fallacy, but it isn't far from a temporary marriage to the kind of behavior documented in Fred's article.
Posted by: 11A5S   2003-05-06 23:00:09  

#1  I wonder if anyone has ever done a study like this:

How do the sentences in Sharia courts compare for the following categories:

* Crimes against property (not including livestock)
* Crimes against livestock
* Crimes against women

My gut feeling is that crimes against women would generally produce the most lenient sentences. I read in one of Robert Conquest's books that it was axiomatic among Kremlinologists that any social ill that the Soviets accused the West of, they were most likely guilty of themselves. The Islamist press constantly accuses the West of exploiting its women. So if I apply Conquest's principle to the Islamists (Sunni and Shia), then this sort of abuse of women must be more widepread than we can imagine. Think about it. Drug traffickers paid addicts to sell their daughters into slavery. They then sell the girls into prostitution in another country. The punishment: a few lashes. What other horrors go on in the towns, clans, and families of Dar al Islam?
Posted by: 11A5S   2003-05-06 16:05:04  

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