01 Aug 2006
Execution of a teenage girl

Her crime? She was raped:

Former revolutionary guard, 51-year-old Ali Darabi - a married man with children - raped her several times.

His punishment?

Darabi got just 95 lashes.

And note that this hanging was not the "drop and break your neck instantly" kind of affair:

Judge Haji Rezai took Atefah's documents to the Supreme Court himself. And at six o'clock on the morning of her execution he put the noose around her neck, before she was hoisted on a crane to her death.

This was the "dangle and stangle" kind of hanging, last seen in this country during botched lynchings.

It was all done in strict accordance with Islamic Sharia law. The case was taken all the way to Iran's highest court, and upheld.

Can anyone look me in the eye and tell me, after reading this, that Islam is a "religion of peace"? Or that Sharia law respects women?

Islam is, without a doubt, the most dangerous religion on the planet. These folks make the Inquisition look like rank amateurs in the oppression department.

The Persian people are Indo-Europeans - and although their folk religion has been utterly obliterated, and this girl was most probably completely unaware it ever existed, at the next sumble I stand in, I promise to remember Atefah Sahaaleh, as a warrior maid and a fighter for the freedom of her gender and her folk.

On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka.

(link) [BBC]

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