Strangely enough wasn't Iran once one of the most liberal countries in the Muslim World, before Ayatollah Khomeini took over? The Women of Iran have come along way, a long way down to the gutter.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 6:08:00 pm
ronmorgen said...
Actually I think it's a pretty just punishment for what he did. But jesus came to teach mercy, she has that choice.
Hi, I’m so glad to see that you have worked to get this story out. What happens to these women is terrible, and it’s still happening. I couldn’t find any contact info, but do you have an email address I can reach you at? I just have a quick question.
Eye for an eye: Woman blinded by scorned lover granted permission to throw acid into his eyes by Iran court
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From Will at The Other News:
(DailyMail).A woman who was blinded when a scorned lover threw acid in her eyes has the chance to get a gruesome revenge today.A court in Iran has given permission for 32 year-old Ameneh Bahrami to get her own back by pouring acid in the eyes of her attacker, a fellow student at Tehran University.
The court's OId Testament ruling - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - has sparked controversy even in Iran where medieval justice still holds sway. But Ameneh still appears bent on revenge.Twenty-seven year old Majid Movahedi threw sulphuric acid in her eyes at a bus-stop in 2004 after he had begged her in vain to marry him. For months he had stalked her and she was left blind and disfigured. She later underwent 19 operations.
The court awarded her £19,000 in compensation and Majid went to jail. But Ameneh did not want the money. She wanted her attacker to suffer the same anguish she was forced to endure for more than six years.'His mother phoned my parents. She asked for mercy. 'She said that Majid would always work for me if he could keep his eyes. But now it's too late,' she was reported as saying yesterday.She has received death threats because of her determination to exact revenge.
'The police have told me not to go out on the street alone,' she said. 'My parents are scared. They think the judges are wrong.'Arrangements have been made for Ameneh to inject the acid into her attacker's eyes as he lies in a Tehran hospital under an aesthetic at midday today. Twenty drops in each eye.
At the last moment Ameneh could still change her mind. But yesterday she said: 'I'm very happy. After six years I'm getting justice. But we are both losers because we have both suffered greatly.
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Close this window Jump to comment formHi Pasto.
Just posted an update on the story:
Updated ! Iran postpones acid blinding punishment.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/201151484341703853.html
Saturday, May 14, 2011 4:02:00 pm
P,
I know some of you regard Gandhi as a loser, but remember he once said ; "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" ?
Saturday, May 14, 2011 4:06:00 pm
Pastorius,
Strangely enough wasn't Iran once one of the most liberal countries in the Muslim World, before Ayatollah Khomeini took over? The Women of Iran have come along way, a long way down to the gutter.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 6:08:00 pm
Actually I think it's a pretty just punishment for what he did.
But jesus came to teach mercy, she has that choice.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:10:00 pm
ronmorgen,
I can see what you mean.
Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:14:00 pm
In old testament law (stolen by Mohammed) the offended could name the price of redemption.
Sunday, May 15, 2011 12:54:00 am
Hi, I’m so glad to see that you have worked to get this story out. What happens to these women is terrible, and it’s still happening. I couldn’t find any contact info, but do you have an email address I can reach you at? I just have a quick question.
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