Showing posts with label Iran torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran torture. Show all posts
Saturday, April 30, 2011
How Arabs Repress the Press Journalists
One of the best parts of Michael Totten's book was where he described exactly how Hezbollah tries to intimidate and threaten reporters - and how reporters are reluctant to report this story.
There are two reasons for this, Totten says. One is that the intimidation often works. The other, simpler reason is that editors will not allow journalists to be part of the story. (p. 157)
Even though readers need to know the context of how a journalist obtained his or her information, so we can evaluate how accurate it is likely to be, it is the rare journalist like Totten who actually explains the situation. So we see a very skewed view of the world in closed societies.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Iran Court Sentences a Man to be Blinded
Jihadwatch
It's in the Qur'an: "We ordained therein for them: 'Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal.' But if any one remits the retaliation by way of charity, it is an act of atonement for himself. And if any fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) wrong-doers." -- Qur'an 5:45
Now you will tell me, "Wait a minute, Spencer, that's in the Hebrew Scriptures, too." So often I hear that the Bible and the Qur'an are equivalent in their messages -- something that only someone who hasn't read either one could say. But in any case, it's true: "an eye for an eye" appears in Exodus 21:22-25, Leviticus 24:19-21, and Deuteronomy 19:21. However, this phrase has always been understood in Judaism as limiting excessive vengeance, not encouraging it, and has never been taken in Jewish tradition as being a warrant for maiming anyone. It is likewise limited in Christianity by Jesus' statement: "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matthew 5:38-39).
But in Islam, the literal force of the Qur'anic passage is paramount. One may remit the retaliation "by way of charity," but is not commanded to do so. And so we get cases like this, which are entirely in accord with Sharia. Isn't it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has made sure that Oklahoma will be safe for Sharia?
"Man sentenced to be blinded with acid by Iranian court," from NewsCore, December 11:
IRAN'S supreme court has upheld a sentence of blinding with acid for a man who blinded his lover's husband, under the Islamic "eye-for-an-eye" justice code, a government daily said.
The convict, named only as Mojtaba, 25, threw acid in the face of Alireza, 25, a taxi driver in Iran's clerical hub city of Qom, after an "illicit affair" with the victim's wife, Mojdeh, also 25, said the newspaper Iran.
The supreme court has upheld a lower court ruling that Mojtaba be blinded with drops of acid, in line with Islamic justice, which allows for "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution, in cases of violent crime, it said.
Qom prosecutor Mostafa Barzegar Ganji said the victim had used his right to qisas.
"We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict," he said, quoted in Iran.
Several acid attacks have been reported in Iran.
In February 2009, Majid Movahedi was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes for having hurled acid in the face of a university classmate, Ameneh Bahrami, who refused a marriage proposal.
It's in the Qur'an: "We ordained therein for them: 'Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal.' But if any one remits the retaliation by way of charity, it is an act of atonement for himself. And if any fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) wrong-doers." -- Qur'an 5:45
Now you will tell me, "Wait a minute, Spencer, that's in the Hebrew Scriptures, too." So often I hear that the Bible and the Qur'an are equivalent in their messages -- something that only someone who hasn't read either one could say. But in any case, it's true: "an eye for an eye" appears in Exodus 21:22-25, Leviticus 24:19-21, and Deuteronomy 19:21. However, this phrase has always been understood in Judaism as limiting excessive vengeance, not encouraging it, and has never been taken in Jewish tradition as being a warrant for maiming anyone. It is likewise limited in Christianity by Jesus' statement: "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matthew 5:38-39).
But in Islam, the literal force of the Qur'anic passage is paramount. One may remit the retaliation "by way of charity," but is not commanded to do so. And so we get cases like this, which are entirely in accord with Sharia. Isn't it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has made sure that Oklahoma will be safe for Sharia?
"Man sentenced to be blinded with acid by Iranian court," from NewsCore, December 11:
IRAN'S supreme court has upheld a sentence of blinding with acid for a man who blinded his lover's husband, under the Islamic "eye-for-an-eye" justice code, a government daily said.
The convict, named only as Mojtaba, 25, threw acid in the face of Alireza, 25, a taxi driver in Iran's clerical hub city of Qom, after an "illicit affair" with the victim's wife, Mojdeh, also 25, said the newspaper Iran.
The supreme court has upheld a lower court ruling that Mojtaba be blinded with drops of acid, in line with Islamic justice, which allows for "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution, in cases of violent crime, it said.
Qom prosecutor Mostafa Barzegar Ganji said the victim had used his right to qisas.
"We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict," he said, quoted in Iran.
Several acid attacks have been reported in Iran.
In February 2009, Majid Movahedi was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes for having hurled acid in the face of a university classmate, Ameneh Bahrami, who refused a marriage proposal.
Friday, June 11, 2010
SHOCKING VIDEO BUT YOU MUST SEE IT: MOVIE DEPICTING WHAT HAPPENS IN IRAN...
Islamic Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad openly complained that recently Oba-Hussein is less supportive than before and stated that if it was meant to get some additional money from Iran, then no problem, the money is always there for him as usual!
Watch this horrifying video of an Iranian prison interrogation and ask yourself HOW IN HELL can Obama continue his paid support of this regime? Taking blood money puts the blood of these freedom fighters on Oba-HUssein's hands just as certainly as if he had been there and spilled the blood and conducted the TORTURE himself.
Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei's middle son, Mojtaba regularly attends and participates in "interrogation" sessions in the worst prisons and rapes prisoners for personal pleasure and libido. Something expected from these brutal Mullahs and their agents. But for the US President to condone and support those who do this is despicable and puts to the lie his mealy mouthed, hypocritical condemnation of alleged "harsh" American Abu Ghraib, GITMO and CIA techniques!
SHAME ON YOU, you dhimmi!
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