Mrs. Ares and I watched a little thing tonight called Execution in Iran. Hard to get your mind around. Back in 2004 the Iranian government tried and executed a 16 year old girl for crimes against chastity. Not murder or drug smuggling, but chastity. Story goes something like this. Little Atafeh Sahaaleh was orphaned in place. When she was young her mother died in a car accident. Stricken by grief, her father fell into a well of drug addiction. Atafeh was forced to care for her elderly, infirm grandparents and generally fend for herself. This included being out and about in a society where women are supposed to have a male relation in attendance. One result of this was being arrested by the morality police for being alone in a car with a boy. This ended with a sentence of 40 lashes. When she was 13 she was molested and raped by a 51 year old cab driver. It went on for 3 years. The morality police eventually produced a ‘petition’ that said the girl was a danger to the moral standing of the community and arrested her. After a brief trial where the judge acts as prosecutor she was sentenced to death. (By they way, according to Islamic law the age of consent for females is 9. Yea, 9.) On an August morning they marched her into public and hanged her by raising a crane into the air.
I know better than most people the ways and methods of evil in the world. This is a whole new level. So much about this is wrong that it almost defies cataloging. This is evil on a level that would have made Hitler blush. Find me the mullahs and muftis that decry this practice. They may be out there, but I’ve yet to come across them. Instead we have to settle for Refuseniks in the West like Irshad Manji and Wafa Sultan that live under a death sentence for daring to suggest Islam might not always be right. Another thought that popped up was where is Amnesty International’s media engine of righteous indignation? I suppose it’s easier to take cheap shots at Koran mishandling at
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