Well, the sexually inhibited religious freaks are stymied again but you got to give them credit for trying to bring back that ol’ time religious fervor. It’s even better news for alleged adulterers. This is from CNN:
“International outcry – and the pleas of a devoted son – seem to have saved an Iranian woman from being stoned to death for adultery.
But while Sakineh Mohammedie Ashitani has been granted a reprieve, she is not the only woman sentenced to be stoned for adultery in Iran. There have been at least six sentences carried out since 2006, says Ann Harrison, an Iran expert at Amnesty International in London.
Adultery is the only crime that carries such a penalty in Iranian law, she said.
Only a handful of countries have laws calling for stoning, and Iran is the only one that carries out executions that way, Amnesty International records suggest.
That is because Islam doesn’t really want the punishment to be carried out, says Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian-born campaigner against the practice.
“Stoning is not a Quranic punishment, it is Islamic jurisprudence. It happened later,” says Mir-Hosseini, an expert on Iranian family law at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. “The punishment for any kind of sexual relations (outside of marriage) in the Quran is 100 lashes,” she says.”
It’s interesting how the religious fundamentalists insist on imposing their weird perverted views of the world upon everyone else and that includes their own twisted misogyny. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if they are Muslim or Christian fundamentalists, they are all cut from the same twisted bolt of cloth that insists on imposing their perverse views upon the rest of the world. Moreover, dissent is not to be tolerated as the freaks takeover the words of the prophets and twist them into their own liking.
Marx made the comment about religion being “the opium of the masses.” I got news for you folks because Marx got it wrong, religion is more like crack for the masses.
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