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2005-11-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread : Justice, Iranian style.

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-01 12:40|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Barbarians.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-11-01 14:49|| 2005-11-01 14:49|| Front Page Top

#2 So that's what Allan told Mohammed to do. No wonder the Arabs invented cars, tires, electornic amplifiers, cameras,...

Posted by Spomosing Slaiter3825 2005-11-01 14:54|| 2005-11-01 14:54|| Front Page Top

#3 No, Even Barbarians are better then this. This is worse.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-01 14:59|| 2005-11-01 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to grab that SOB around his FREAKIN' NECK!! Who knows, might have the chance shortly!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-11-01 15:08|| 2005-11-01 15:08|| Front Page Top

#5 People need any more proof that the arab world is completely fucked?

Posted by mmurray821 2005-11-01 15:19|| 2005-11-01 15:19|| Front Page Top

#6 One guy commented on the photos as a street performance by Dad and kid to get money from the crowd. It seems plausible.

What the guy commented:

I'm an Iranian and I've seen these pictures in a report in a local newspaper before.
It's not a 'punishment' or anything like that. If it was a punishment they wouldn't put the soft thing under the boy's arm.

The man in the picture is a poor father making a show of his son's abilities just to make money from the people standing there. This is their everyday activity. Very Very sorrowing.

Please be careful not to post anything that you don't have enough information about.
And don't post such things which are to make hate in the hearts of the people rather than sympathy.

Posted by Penguin 2005-11-01 15:24|| 2005-11-01 15:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Re Penguin's comment: I've certainly heard of more depraved things being done to kids by parents to earn money. If fake, the kid sure does a great job emoting abject terror.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-11-01 16:49|| 2005-11-01 16:49|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems plausible.

wow! What does that mean, that "it seems plausible"? It "seems plausible" that this was a street performance that everyone just stood around and watched? Yeah, that would happen in a civilized country, we'd all just stand around, watch and throw a few coins in a jar.

It's not a 'punishment' or anything like that. If it was a punishment they wouldn't put the soft thing under the boy's arm.

Ooookaaay. So from that comment we can assume that we know that this is "an act" because they put a soft cloth under his arm and they would not have done that if it were to be a punishment.

Do you know how CRAZY that sounds to a civilized ear? Don't get so upset, everyone knows that when you really want to punish a child you don't put the soft cloth down.

Seen it before without the cloth, have you?

Barbarians. In case you haven't noticed, it hasn't been the 7th Century for quite some time.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-01 17:00|| 2005-11-01 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9
And don't post such things which are to make hate in the hearts of the people rather than sympathy.

There's the nub of it -- "Don't show people what beasts we are."

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-01 17:23|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-01 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 It's not a 'punishment' or anything like that. If it was a punishment they wouldn't put the soft thing under the boy's arm.

Try crap like that in any * CIVILIZED * country and see how long a sentence you get for child abuse. The Iranian Mullocracy is * SCUM * as is anyone who supports or excuses them.

Posted by DMFD 2005-11-01 22:18|| 2005-11-01 22:18|| Front Page Top

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