I am a citizen of this planet, who believes there is a purpose and mission to our existence. I pursue that mission and try to enjoy every lesson, every day, and every last drop of the pain and joy we drink when we live. I live a mostly regret-free life, with each failure quickly becoming a valuable experience and something to laugh about, and every success something about which to be thankful and celebrative. I do all of this in and around my beloved Berkeley, California.
6/19/2007
Say It Isn't So....
Asieh Amini, a women's and children's rights activist in Tehran, says in her blog that two people will be stoned in Iran on Thursday. My heart weeps.
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Update: Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
P.S. I am happy to hear that the stoning scheduled for Thursday has been suspended, according to Fars News Agency. Independent of my beliefs against capital punishment, I think this barbaric method of execution must be eliminated from Iranian judicial system. So long as stoning is an allowable punishment in Iranian law books, judges will issue stoning sentences all over Iran, and they will be carried out in public or in private; therefore to end it, it must be eliminated from Iranian laws. Even when eliminated from the law books, the fact that it has happened as many times as it has in Iran over the past three decades will present the least proud moments of our country's history.
I can not believe it either :( it freaks me out :(
ReplyDeletei hope that they do s.th till Thu.
unfortunately sometimes there is no logic out there, they do what 1400 years ago people did.
i really wish they do s.th...
Mine as well.
ReplyDeleteTragic.
ReplyDeleteFarnice Jan: Take a look at this interview with Shadi Sadr:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.roozonline.com/archives/2007/06/005387.php
I guess we should believe it, though the whole concept defies belief. Khoob bash azizam.
Assal Jan, Serendip Jan:
ReplyDeleteI hate it when I feel so powerless in the face of something I so wholeheartedly oppose. Tragic, it is.
Oh how much I hate this law and I wonder how on earth they provide the proofs and then the guts to execute the "law"!!
ReplyDeleteIt IS horrible, Nimeh Shab Jan. It must be eliminated from the laws, and that is the only way to see it stopped for good.
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