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| Iran: Adulteress 'to be executed Wednesday' |
| 2010-11-03 |
| An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery and helping kill her husband, will be executed on Wednesday, according to a statement by a group that opposes stoning in Iran. "The Islamic regime of Iran plans to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani immediately," said a statement on the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS). The group didn't give details on the method that will use to execute Ashtiani, but following an international campaign , Iran in July said a stoning sentence had been suspended. Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 and according to human rights activists forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes. She later recanted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Ashtiani's son and lawyer have been arrested and tortured by Iranian authorities, ICAS has said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 A lot of Islamic apologists will say that stoning for adultery isn't in the Quran and thus it is unIslamic to punish adulterers that way. Here are some thoughts on that: 1. If so, why aren't all the other Islamic nations crying out against this particular case? Why is it only the "western" nations that are bothering Iran about it? 2. There is a famous (or infamous) Hadith in the collection of Bukari (whose work is beloved by both Shia and Sunni) which specifically says, Stoning is for all non-sanctified sexual activity. FWIW, some say that it was given before a verse from the Quran that prescribes 100 lashes without mercy for adultery (Q 24:2). 3. There are other hadiths that prescribe stoning for activities similar to adultry e.g., Acquire it from me, acquire it from me. The Almighty ALLAH has revealed the directive about women who habitually commit fornication about which He had promised to reveal. If such criminals are unmarried or are the unsophisticated youth, then their punishment is a eighty stripes and exile and if they are widowers or are married, then their punishment is a hundred stripes and death by stoning. — Sahih Muslim |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-11-03 14:02 |
| #1 Update: TEHRAN has accused the West of trying to pressurise it over the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, as an exiled activist said the woman was not executed today as feared. "They (Western nations) have become so shameless that they have turned the case of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who has committed crime and treason, into a human rights case against our nation," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. "It has become a symbol of women's freedom in Western nations and with impudence they want to free her. Thus, they are trying to use this ordinary case as a pressure lever against our nation," he was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency. "The other side is only looking for pretexts against the Islamic establishment and if ... we give into their demands they will assert, so there will be nothing left of the revolution and the establishment," Mehmanparast said on state news agency IRNA. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-11-03 10:31 |