The Jerusalem Post is reporting a shocking interview with a member of the Iranian paramilitary Basiji militia — the group accused of some of the worst atrocities in the crackdown on protesters following the recent disputed presidential election. The source is a member of the infamous Basiji. He discussed, among other things, how he and other guards would routinely rape young girls after compelled marriages in jail — because Iranian law forbids the execution of a virgin and it would have been immoral not to rape them before killing them.
The Basiji was formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 as the “people’s militia” and subordinate to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. It was formed after Khomeini declared that “a country with 20 million youths must have 20 million riflemen or a military with 20 million soldiers; such a country will never be destroyed.” In the recent crackdown, they were seen riding motorcycles and clubbing protesters.
This man was willing to speak after being arrested for showing mercy on two teenagers. He stated that various Basiji have been arrested for such acts of leniency and that the government is bringing in teenagers from small villages to carry out the repressions.
What is most chilling is the part of the interview where he is asked about his greatest regrets and he reveals how he was selected to marry young girls and then rape them before their executions in the name of Islam. He states “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die. . . . I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”
The Basiji is viewed as intensely loyal to and under the control of Iran’s Supreme religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
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This story is clearly a fabrication. That’s not quite surprising from people who occupied a whole country and cleansed it from its people using all means, especially a very sophisticated body of lies. What’s surprising though is how many naive minds fall into their trap. Well that’s probably the main reason these liars thrive.
The Jerusalem Post is reporting a shocking interview with a member of the Iranian paramilitary Basiji militia — the group accused of some of the worst atrocities in the crackdown on protesters following the recent disputed presidential election. The source is a member of the infamous Basiji. He discussed, among other things, how he and other guards would routinely rape young girls after compelled marriages in jail — because Iranian law forbids the execution of a virgin and it would have been immoral not to rape them before killing them. This is the worst inhumanity imaginable and usage of Iranian Law as a cover up for brutality, immorality and murder. Why isn’t the United States speaking out against it. True Christianity, if Carlyle Moulton would understand is not evil but gracious, good, kind. I am not speaking of the Crusades or religiosity but Evangelical, not Fundamentalism, Christianity that seeks to love God with all of one’s heart, soul and mind and to love his neighbor as him or herself. True Christians are not nominal but sadly many are Carlyle. If the repoort of Islam is true and the autrocities reported are accurate then modern Islam is vile and contemptous compared to modern Christianity.
Thur.
I agree, I have made a rather nasty generalization but I have seen enough now via the world wide internet to conclude that Muslim theocrats make American fundy would be theocrats as crazy as they are look relatively sane.
It is probably true that most Muslims like most Christians are only nominal believers and it is unfair to tar them with the same brush of the fanatic rulers, nevertheless I say Islam is predominantly evil, even more so than Christianity.
“…… but typical behavior for Muslims.”
Generalization galore.
Mark Giselson.
Read about the atrocity I linked to above and follow some of the links from those pages.
Stoning is the penalty for adultery but hanging from a mobile crane is more efficient and Iran no longer uses the time honored procedure in favour of efficiency. Also a crane provides a spectacle that is easily visible to a crowd. The victim is hoisted high in the air and so is visible over the heads of any of the crowd in front and the crane can swivel around to display the corpse to all points of the compass.
Anonymously Yours.
Not hogwash but typical behavior for Muslims. Muslims have many valid grievances against the Christian world, the US and Israel but that does not change the fact that they are ignorant stupid mediaeval barbarians. I used to think that Christianity was the sickest most vile religion in the world until I discovered Islam. Now I say that comparing Islam with Christianity is like comparing HIV/AIDS with the common cold.
Another useful link on that discussed above.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1708578.htm.
Here is another link to an article about the Atefah Sahaaleh persecution and murder by a Sharia judge. The judge put the noose around her neck himself, one gets the impression that it was personal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5217424.stm.
Those who do not believe that Iran is capable of such an atrocity might find this link to an Australian broadcasting Commission story on the execution of a teenage girl of interest. It was broadcast on 2006/08/07 and related to a girl raped by a former Revolutionary Guard. Her real crime though was expressing her justified contempt for the court and its judges.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1705231.htm.
If I remember correctly the rapist got only a whipping.
My suspicion reading between the lines is that some revolutionary guards were trying to force the girl into prostitution and since she refused they made moral complaints against her which lead to her conviction and execution.
This is a religion?! Christians’ Old Testament is full of disgusting stories of biblical “heroes” doing things like pimping out their daughters or lusting after a woman and killing her husband in order to have her. But very few contemporary Christians or Jews nowadays live by such precepts, and they’re certainly not endorsed by the mainstream church.
This whole story seems a stretch to me, though. Is the Jerusalem Post usually guilty of making up such stories?
I am surprised that people are surprised. In Islam there are all sorts of bizarre ways to get around stuff — for example, there is Zawaj Sirri (secret marriage), Zawaj Misyar (marriage without dowry or rights), & Zawaj Muáqqat (temporary marriage)–“marriage”for even just a day. Let’s not forget that the Quran requires not just following the Quran, but the example of Muhammad (the sunnah), & Muhammad did such things as “marry” young Jewish Safiya right after torturing & killing her father & newlywed husband & slaughtering all the men of her village.
The Contentious Centrist put some supporting links in their blogpost on it:
http://contentious-centrist.blogspot.com/2009/07/essence-of-evil-i.html
As an unsourced story it is hard to know the truth of it. However, it would not be something out of the question for any followers of Fundamentalists of any religious faith.
I also posted that link and a reader challenged me on it. Not only could I not find any corroboration of this anonymously sourced story, I could not find any record of the Iranians executing young girls.
All the references I found were to women being stoned for adultery, which would hardly describe these alleged cases.
My suspicion is that the devirginated Iranian girls are about as true as the Kuwaiti incubator story.
If this story accurately represents prevailing Muslim theology in Iran, it is one sick society.
What is most chilling is the part of the interview where he is asked about his greatest regrets and he reveals how he was selected to marry young girls and then rape them before their executions in the name of Islam.
Hogwash. Hogwash I tell you.