Stoning
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/06/iran.stoning/index.html
The practice of stoning is back in the news again... and no it has nothing to do with smoking pot. Stoning refers to a form of capital punishment where a group of people throw stones at an individual until the person dies. It states that the stones should not be big enough so that the death occurs quickly and not small enough that it can drag out. Apparently this practice is still being used in some modern day Islamic states. Iran is the latest country to feel the weight of the world on its shoulders as they try to carry out another sentence.
I’m not in the habit of stepping into another countries right to carry out justice, but I do have a few problems with this one. Apparently, the woman who does not speak Farsi had confessed to the crime of adultery. In Iran the crime carries the punishment of death by stoning if she is married or 100 lashes if she is out of wedlock.
The judge ruled that she was guilty, and rendered the sentence of 99 lashes which was carried out. The sentence was carried out in front of her son as he was not willing to wait outside a room as his mother would be lashed.
So here is where the problems start to mount. The sentence WAS carried out and the woman should have been freed, But then a judges' panel in Tabriz suspected the woman of being involved in her husband's murder and re-opened her case.
She was later cleared of the murder charges, but the judges panel re-examined her adultery sentence, and based on unspecified "judges' knowledge," decided she should be put to death for the alleged affair.
Again, I am not familiar with Sharia law, but I would think that if you paid your debt to society then you should be freed. So the question should be these....
What “Judges’ knowledge” was there to re-sentence the woman a second time?
What happened to an eye for eye.... isn’t the first sentence of 99 lashes severe enough?
If takes two to tango, did the man in this rendezvous also get stoned?
As her son states... "Today we stretch out our hands to the people of the whole world... It is now five years that we have lived in fear and in horror, deprived of motherly love. Is the world so cruel that it can watch this catastrophe and do nothing about it?
Good question.
The practice of stoning is back in the news again... and no it has nothing to do with smoking pot. Stoning refers to a form of capital punishment where a group of people throw stones at an individual until the person dies. It states that the stones should not be big enough so that the death occurs quickly and not small enough that it can drag out. Apparently this practice is still being used in some modern day Islamic states. Iran is the latest country to feel the weight of the world on its shoulders as they try to carry out another sentence.
I’m not in the habit of stepping into another countries right to carry out justice, but I do have a few problems with this one. Apparently, the woman who does not speak Farsi had confessed to the crime of adultery. In Iran the crime carries the punishment of death by stoning if she is married or 100 lashes if she is out of wedlock.
The judge ruled that she was guilty, and rendered the sentence of 99 lashes which was carried out. The sentence was carried out in front of her son as he was not willing to wait outside a room as his mother would be lashed.
So here is where the problems start to mount. The sentence WAS carried out and the woman should have been freed, But then a judges' panel in Tabriz suspected the woman of being involved in her husband's murder and re-opened her case.
She was later cleared of the murder charges, but the judges panel re-examined her adultery sentence, and based on unspecified "judges' knowledge," decided she should be put to death for the alleged affair.
Again, I am not familiar with Sharia law, but I would think that if you paid your debt to society then you should be freed. So the question should be these....
What “Judges’ knowledge” was there to re-sentence the woman a second time?
What happened to an eye for eye.... isn’t the first sentence of 99 lashes severe enough?
If takes two to tango, did the man in this rendezvous also get stoned?
As her son states... "Today we stretch out our hands to the people of the whole world... It is now five years that we have lived in fear and in horror, deprived of motherly love. Is the world so cruel that it can watch this catastrophe and do nothing about it?
Good question.
Labels: Religion
posted by Fe Man at 10:05 PM
0 comments
