We have yet another example of the perversity of justice under Sharia law. The latest case comes out of Iran where university students have filed a criminal complaint against famed actress Leila Hatami, who recently starred in the Oscar-winning film, A Separation. Some Iranians were outraged when Hatami accepted a customary peck on the cheek from Gilles Jacob, the President of Cannes Festival, as she arrived at Cannes Film Festival to serve as a member of the prestigious jury. Not only is such a sign of affection a crime in the Islamic Republic but (gasp) Hatami was wearing a head scarf that did not entirely cover her hair from being seen by men. She is now subject to jail and flogging under article 638 of Islamic Criminal Justice. The Sharia law calls for 50 lashes.
One would think that a nation like Iran would be overwhelmed with pride at the success of a citizen on the international stage. Hatami is one of just five women members on the Palme d’Or prize jury. However, in a country where women are segregated and flogged in the name of Islamic morality, many view Hatami with disgust and anger. That includes the Hizbullah Students, a group of university students with links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that first brought the criminal complaint. They are demanding that Hatami be flogged.
The petition, supported by many officials and citizens, declared “We, the undersigned, who are a group of student Muslim brothers and sisters, ask the cultural and media branch of the judiciary to prosecute Leyla Hatami for her sinful act of kissing a strange man in public, which according to article 638 of Islamic Criminal Justice carries a prison sentence. Furthermore, the action of this film star has hurt the religious sentiments of the proud and martyrs breeding nation of Iran and as such we also demand the punishment of flogging for her as stipulated in the law.”
Hatami has been denounced in the media as committing a “an affront to the chastity of women in Iran” and Hossein Nushabadi, Iran’s deputy minister of culture, declared Hatami to be in open “violation of religious beliefs.” He went on to say that she had disgraced the nation and the faith by such an immoral act and that, unlike Hatami, “Iranian woman is the symbol of chastity and innocence.” And of course Iranian courts are the symbol of cruelty and ignorance.
Source: Telegraph
Feynman,
Sure seems like a lot of wasted time.
Speaking of hives….
how many House Republicans voted to uphold Obamacare during the 5200 votes the Republicans launched to repeal ACA?
Laser,
Depends if they do it Iranian style, roman style or Thai style.
Paul,
And that’s how Ted Cruz got elected. People who are tired of thinking.
Me thinks Keeb is full of it.
Most people would pass out at 10 lashes;
and very few (in this soft day n age) – could take 50.
Here’s one WAR I could get behind.
Picture women, in the hundreds of millions, uniting in an armed physical war;
to put an end to such atrocities against humanity.
Laser – I have long advocated adding female forces in the fighting military. Since groups of women tend to sync their menstrual cycle to the dominate female in the group they would all be on the same cycle. Think of a battalion of PMSing women charging over the hill at you.
Is Dr. Harris serious? In the US we have a distinction between Church & State. A real, meaningful distinction. We also have a distinction between the Military and Civil. A real, meaningful distinction.
We were lucky. The people that wrote the Constitution were real (real) products of the Enlightenment. While the general population probably would have been fine with a State Religion, those “old, white men”, some of whom were slave owners, thought differently. Were were lucky? Sure. But those same guys also (more or less) ran the US until Andrew Jackson, and made sure American Democracy stuck. (and Jackson added, immeasurably).
Washington could have been king. He had, actually had (Newburgh), the opportunity. He declined. He went home, like Cincinnatus. We ended up with a Constitution, two terms of GW, and he again walked away.
Were we lucky? Sure. But that doesn’t effect a conclusion of these people being products of an Enlightenment that originated in Europe, and that created modern Western thought & culture. None of this has anything in common or analogous with anything in Islam in the same time period.
We are different, and we are better. The Common Law is better than Sharia. Now, does being “better” entitle us to some better treatment? No. We don’t get a pass on our human rights violations, nor should we. Our sins don’t get washed away because Jefferson & Madison read John Locke. But to equate the West with countries that routinely slice off a woman’s clitoris, or look the other way for so-called “honor killings” is intellectually unbalanced. Not intellectually dishonest, it’s truly unbalanced.
Swarthmore mom
They do make wonderful movies, don’t they.
Al O’Heem;
Thanks for reminding me of the TJ quote.
If you want someone to tell you how to think, vote republican. If you don’t know how to think and still vote, vote TeaParty.
Muslim lawmakers perceive a good reason for what appears to be rampant officially approved atrocities against the public. Similarly, some Americans see a valid reason for committing atrocities against animals. Both are tragic mindsets perpetuated by tradition.
Sadly, orders of magnitude of women in this country cannot get an abortion due to religious zealots. Orders of magnitude of women in this country cannot avail themselves of certain contraceptives due to religious zealots.
Sadly, orders of magnitude of citizens in this country cannot vote due to Republicans.
Please define orders of magnitude as a number.
Every day that I face this daunting battle against tyranny, cronyism and corruption – here – in U.S. systems of justice; I’m put in check by stories of more draconian civil rights/human rights injustices, manifest, worldwide.
Sometimes (concurring with a wonderful journalist who has written about my plight), I wish I could put a bunch of stickers on my body (like a NASCAR vehicle), representing the top 20 wrongs most dire;
and run in front of a tank (like Tiananmen Square)
to get run over and out of all this human deplorable behavior.
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Does anyone remember (without looking it up) why Thich Quang Duc
set himself on fire?
A Buddhist just did a similar stunt in Sri Lanka
(protesting the eating of cows).
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Of all injustices and quagmires we see much of
(even upon this blog)
I wonder how we would feel if we could animal speak like Doolittle;
and/or – IF – one mother cow could speak (by universal translater)
on the slaughter of her young to be veal!
Oops! movie.
From the Fifteenth Edition of Bartletts’ Familiar Quotations,, Little, Brown and Company, 1980, page 409:
John Burns
O wad some power the gifte gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion.
From To a Louse
Time to leave the country for her. Sadly, orders of magnitude more women cannot.
Nick,
Enough of your sophomoric humor.
Excellent move….learned a lot about Iranian culture when I saw it.
Warspite
Plenty of protestant sects cast out devils right here in the US. Roman Catholics still do exorcisms. A vice presidential candidate allowed a pastor pray away evil spirits.
There is no shortage of craziness.
Sounds like Keebler would take having his finger nails pulled for the opportunity to get to second base. I don’t want to know what he would accept as punishment for a home run.