October 16, 2004, Zhila Izadi, a 13 year old girl from the north-western city of Marivan had been condemned to death by stoning after being found that she had been pregnant from her 15 year-old brother. The girl gave birth two weeks ago in prison, but was separated from her new born baby after the birth. The father, a devout Muslim, informed the authorities about the “disgrace” the young girl had caused the family.While Zhila as been sentenced to stoning, her brother, jailed in Tehran, is to receive only 150 lashes, in accordance with Islamic laws.
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On August 10, 1994, In the city of Arak, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime’s guards recaptured her and shot her to death.
On August 10, 1994, In the city of Arak, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime’s guards recaptured her and shot her to death.
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October 1989, In the city of Qom, a woman who was being stoned managed to pull herself out of the hole, only to be forced back into it and stoned to death. In justifying the murder, Qom’s Chief Religious Judge, Mullah Karimi, elaborated to Ressalat newspaper on October 30, 1989: “Generally speaking, legal and religious decrees on someone condemned to stoning call for her stoning if her guilt was proven on the basis of witnesses’ testimonies. Even if she were to escape in the middle of the administration of the sentence, she must be returned and stoned to death.“
October 1989, In the city of Qom, a woman who was being stoned managed to pull herself out of the hole, only to be forced back into it and stoned to death. In justifying the murder, Qom’s Chief Religious Judge, Mullah Karimi, elaborated to Ressalat newspaper on October 30, 1989: “Generally speaking, legal and religious decrees on someone condemned to stoning call for her stoning if her guilt was proven on the basis of witnesses’ testimonies. Even if she were to escape in the middle of the administration of the sentence, she must be returned and stoned to death.“
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The fact that women can be gruesomely stoned to death for ‘moral corruption’ when the mullahs are prepared to sign men up for 10 minute pleasure marriages with young girls, confirms the male chauvinist basis of the entire system.
The fact that women can be gruesomely stoned to death for ‘moral corruption’ when the mullahs are prepared to sign men up for 10 minute pleasure marriages with young girls, confirms the male chauvinist basis of the entire system.
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This just confirms my belief that religion is used throughout the world as a tool to control and oppress not only women, but millions of people into blindly following cruel and archaic systems of belief, methods of law and justice, and extreme sexism by essentially brainwashing people in the name of ‘God’ and ‘religion’ in order to tyrannize and gain complete power over them.
This just confirms my belief that religion is used throughout the world as a tool to control and oppress not only women, but millions of people into blindly following cruel and archaic systems of belief, methods of law and justice, and extreme sexism by essentially brainwashing people in the name of ‘God’ and ‘religion’ in order to tyrannize and gain complete power over them.
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