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| 16 year old Iranian girl hanged in public for her "sharp tongue" |
| 2004-08-22 |
| Via LGF On Sunday August 15, 2004, a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefe Rajabi, daughter of Ghassem Rajabi, was executed in the town of Neka, located in the province of Mazandaran, for "engaging in acts incompatible with chastity". The execution was carried out by the order of Neka's "judicial administrator" and was approved by both the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic and the chief of the nation's "judiciary branch." Although according to her birth certificate she was only 16 years old, the local court falsely claimed that she was 22. Three months ago, during her appearance before the local court, fiercely angry the young girl hurled insults at the local judge, Haji Reza, who is also the chief judicial administrator of the city, and it is said as another expression of protest took off some of her clothes in the courtroom. This act by the young girl made the administrator so furious that he evaluated her file personally and in less than three months received a go-ahead from the Islamic Republic's Supreme Court for her execution. The animosity and anger of Haji Reza was so strong that he personally put the rope around the girl's delicate neck and personally gave the signal to the crane operator, by raising his hand, to begin pulling the rope. You imagine what kind of hanging that is It may be noted that although according to the Islamic Republic's own penal laws the presence of an attorney for the defense [is supposed to be] mandatory, regardless of the defendant's ability to afford one, nevertheless the girl remained without an attorney. Her unfortunate father, while tears poured from his eyes, went about the city beseeching the townspeople for money to hire an attorney who in the least would provide his daughter with a line of defense. I suppose the devote townspeople didn't have a dime to spare..." The young girl was buried the same day after her execution but during that same night her corpse was disinterred by unknown individuals and robbed. The theft remains unexplained and the Rajabi family has filed a complaint. Maybe some post mortem rape? The 16 year old girl's male companion, who had been arrested as well, received 100 lashes and, after the Islamic punishment was carried out, released. Another report has this: Ateqeh personally defended herself. She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims. The judge personally pursued Ateqeh's death sentence, beyond all normal procedures and finally gained the approval of the Supreme Court. After her execution Rezai said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her "sharp tongue". |
| Posted by:True German Ally |
| #10 Islam isn't a religion. It's a death cult that must be completely, totally, and utterly exterminated from the face of the planet. It is not a religion of peace, it is not a religion of civilization. It is the cult of carrion feeders and should be shown no mercy or compassion. Only death. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2004-08-22 9:42:27 PM |
| #9 slam has to be some sort of mental disorder. It does not matter a whit what some dufus mullah SAYS...it's the actions. This is just another example of what the entire world will be subjected to if we fail to irradicate the radical, islamo-cockroaches. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-08-22 8:50:36 PM |
| #8 There is no such concept in Islam that is called âhonor killingâ. And yet, whenever someone tries to ban it, the locals whine about religion. See Jordan for an example. A bill came before the legislature to make it a crime. The bill was defeated because it would have been "un-Islamic". The problem, Gentle, is this phrase: "Like all other religions, Islam strictly prohibits murder and killing without legal justification." They get legal justification: The "crime" is generally cast to be adultery, even if the poor girl was raped. And, since Sharia requires the testimony of two women to match the testimony of one man, all the guy has to do is say, "Yep, she wanted it!" You keep spinning these fantasies about Islam, ignoring the reality. Stop insulting us, please, and start looking at the reality. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-22 8:39:00 PM |
| #7 Gentle, thanks for the theory, but we base our opinions on the reality. The reality is that, for whatever reason, an Iranian local "judicial administrator" can personally execute a 16-year-old girl for "contempt of court." Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-08-22 8:22:09 PM |
| #6 No offense, but if this judge lives out the year, her father either has no balls, or doesn't think of her daughter as fully human. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-22 7:00:03 PM |
| #5 The actions of this girl in court suggest to me that she may have been mentally ill. If that is true this is doubly horrible. Gentle (you dipshit) - you can quote chapter and verse all day long blah, blah, blah but the fact remains that a girl, not yet an adult, was brutally hanged by a Should I apply the same measure of guilt to you, and we lived in a county where the punishment for said smartassery was death - How long do you think you would last? I however don't pretend I am God. |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-08-22 6:52:35 PM |
| #4 Gentle, the case I posted above was not about honor killings. This is Sharia and Iranian Supreme Court sanctioned barbaric murder. I don't care what some "liberal" Islamic scholar in Canada says, I care about what is actually DONE in Sharia countries. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-22 4:54:45 PM |
| #3 Gentle: Law is meaningless if it is violated by those in authority without condemnation *and* punishment. In the very few places in the world where "civilized" Sharia is practiced, it is laughable even compared to Soviet or Chinese Law, and it is chaos compared to Roman, Napoleonic, or that most liberal of Law, Common Law. It is not built of reason, or compassion, though it claims both. It is laced with cruel judgement for the weak and no punishment at all for the strong. As a civil law, it is corrupt beyond measure. It is beyond redemption. And that is when it is practiced in western countries, under secular inhibitions, and in cultures far more liberal than most. In the greatest part of the world it is an abomination. A tool to justify the worst violations and perversions imaginable. It is the handmaiden to genocide, racism, sexism, homocide, and every cruelty that should have been forgotten a thousand years ago. No animal should be forced to live under such torment, and in the west, no one would want an animal to live that way. It is a sick and diseased imagining, and beyond grace. No human being should trust to a god that would visit such horror on his followers, and if Allah exists, then surely he must reserve his darkest, hottest and most painful Hell for those who promulgate such horrors on the innocent. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-08-22 4:42:41 PM |
| #2 Fine. If they won't post my article, I'll rewrite it: Islam & Honor Killings: Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: âThere is no such concept in Islam that is called âhonor killingâ. Islam holds every soul in high esteem and does not allow any transgression upon it. It does not allow people to take the law in their own hands and administer justice, because doing so will be leading to chaos and lawlessness. Therefore, based on this, Islam does not permit such killings. First of all, in order to sanction killing, it must be through a binding verdict issued by an authoritative law court. Individuals themselves have no authority either to judge cases or pass judgments. Therefore, a Muslim should not sanction such killing because doing so will be leading to the rule of the law of the jungle. A civilized society cannot be run by such laws.â Shedding more light on it, Sheikh `Atiyyah Saqr, former head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, states: âLike all other religions, Islam strictly prohibits murder and killing without legal justification. Allah, Most High, says, âWhoso slayeth a believer of set purpose, his reward is Hell for ever. Allah is wroth against him and He hath cursed him and prepared for him an awful doom.â (An-Nisaâ: 93) The so-called âhonor killingâ is based on ignorance and disregard of morals and laws, which cannot be abolished except by disciplinary punishments. It goes without saying that people are not entitled to take the law in their own hands, for itâs the responsibility of the Muslim State and its concerned bodies to maintain peace, security, etc., and to prevent chaos and disorder from creeping into the Muslim society.â Moreover, the eminent Muslim scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hanooti, member of the North American Fiqh Council, adds: âIn Islam, there is no place for unjustifiable killing. Even in case of capital punishment, only the government can apply the law through the judicial procedures. No one has the authority to execute the law other than the officers who are in charge. Honor killing is a wrong cultural tradition. It is unjust and inhumane action. The murderer of that type deserves punishment.â |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-22 4:22:39 PM |
| #1 I've already quoted that in a comment but I thought it shouldn't get buried there. Notice that the Islamic Republic's Supreme Court approved this, so its not a local thing. This is Sharia at work. When Iran is finally liberated all these judges should hang... the same way. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-22 4:17:40 PM |