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2008-01-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Two youths to be flogged and cast off a cliff

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 hey they cathching up with texas in capital punishment, just in cruel ways

Posted by sinse 2008-01-11 07:00|| 2008-01-11 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Cast off a cliff?
That's a new one on me, but why do they lash them first?
Better yet, why don't they lash them, cut off their junk and throw it off a cliff, then throw them off a cliff.
They are rapists after all, and seems to me to get convicted of rape in a sharia court your would have to have 4 eye witnesses to testify against you, so you are probably guilty as all hell if you get convicted in Iran.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-11 11:54|| 2008-01-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, the "off a cliff" routine was used in pre-christian Rome for the crime of parricide - the perp went into a bag with some critters (not sure but I think a snake, fox and rooster) and then the bag went off a certain cliff one one of the Roman hills.

So their jurisprudence is even farther behind the times than the rest of their culture by about 800 years.

Posted by Shitch Dingle2351 2008-01-11 14:01|| 2008-01-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm just speculating, but the sentence handed down suggests to me the two "youths' may be homosexuals. When is the last time you heard of a muslim put to death for raping a female?

I know we've been assured by the highest authorities in Iran that there are no gays in Iran. I'm thinking maybe the vice police may have the last two.

Posted by Mark Z 2008-01-11 14:05|| 2008-01-11 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I was thinking the same thing. If it was a woman, they'd be tossing her off a cliff.

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-11 14:24|| 2008-01-11 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 but isn't cordless bungee jumping against Islam???

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-11 14:27|| 2008-01-11 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 But, there are no homosexuals in Iran. Perhaps this is why.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-11 22:24|| 2008-01-11 22:24|| Front Page Top

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