They’ll Stone You and Say That it’s The End

Apologies to Bob Dylan. In this country if you are accused of cheating on a boyfriend or a spouse, you risk divorce, alimony, or worse still, a trip to the Jerry Springer show. In strict Islamic countries where they have instituted Sharia law, you risk stoning. But really its only a risk if you are female. You see, a woman is usually considered one-fourth of a man, so in a trial it takes the testimony of four women to equal that of one man.

For instance, if you are a woman, forced to wear a veil, and living in a land under Sharia law, and you get raped, you have to find four female witnesses that actually see you getting raped to testify that it happened, or you have to find one man that saw it. But the rapist need only testify that the woman was a harlot and she is guilty of adultery. And the punishment for that is death by stoning.

Isnt Islam fun?

This story comes from the Village Voice, which is not your typical right wing newspaper. Thanks to American Thinker for the tip.

On June 29, 2006, a court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced Malak Ghorbany, a 34-year-old mother of two, to a brutal death by stoning after finding her guilty of adultery.

Two men who were found guilty of murder in the same court were only given jail sentences of six years.

The size of the stones used during the execution are required to be not so large that they would kill a woman too quickly, nor so small that they would fail to cause serious injury or pain.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has become an international celebrity, brandishing his nuclear program and his yearning to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He is visited by such personages as U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. In their conversations with him, neither has asked the swashbuckling leader about “honor killings” by the government of women charged with having committed “adultery.”

As human rights lawyer Lily Mazahery, president of the Legal Rights Institute reports, “in 99 percent of these cases, the accused women have received no legal representation because, under the Shariah legal system, their testimony is at best worth only half the value of the testimony of men.”

The capital crime of adultery, Mazahery has explained to World Net Daily, “includes [under Shariah law] any type of intimate relationship between a girl/woman and a man to whom she is not permanently or temporarily married. Such a relationship does not necessarily mean a sexual relationship.

“Further, charges of adultery are routinely issued to women/girls who have been raped and they are sentenced to death.” (Their unpardonable crime is to have been raped.)

During the continuous coverage in this country of Iran’s nuclear threat and its crucial support of terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, there has been scarcely any mention of this horrifying dimension of the culture of Iran: sangsar, the stoning to death of women.

Mazahery said, “when the mullahs took over in the 1979 revolution, they brought back Shariah law, and when this president Amadinejad came to power, he reinstituted public stonings, as a “religious principle,” against women.