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2003-05-06 Iran

Iranian court sentences sex gang members to 281 years in prison

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-05-06 03:08 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2003-05-06 16:05:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-05-06 23:00:09|| Front Page Top

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