Over international protests, according to some new sites, Iran has already executed Rayhaneh Jabbari, 26. However, Fox News is reporting that the execution has been delayed. Jabbari claimed that a former Iranian Intelligence Ministry employee tried to rape her and that she stabbed in him the shoulder to escape. Despite the fact that a drink given to her was found to contain a date rape drug, the Iranian officials still wanted her hanged and they have now carried out their intent. As she was being led away to be hanged, a guard showed mercy and gave her his phone to type a final message to her mother. Her reported message below is poignant and tragic as a final goodbye to her mother. [Update: there are both reports that the execution has occurred and that the execution has been delayed. Amnesty is reporting that the execution is “imminent.”]
Jabbari wrote:
“I am currently handcuffed and there is a car waiting outside to take me for the execution of the sentence. Goodbye, dear Mum. All of my pains will finish early tomorrow morning. I’m sorry I cannot lessen your pain. Be patient. We believe in life after death. I’ll see you in the next world and I will never leave you again because being separated from you is the most difficult thing to do in the world.”
When her mother called the prison to ask what she could do, they told her to pick up the body of her daughter.
Jabbari was a decorator who said that she was contacted Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, who arranged a meeting. She said that Sarbandi drugged her and tried to rape her after the two met at a café and she agreed to go to his office to discuss a business deal. She said that Sarbandi took her to a remote building and offered her a fruit drink which was later found to contain the date-rape drug. Her family noted that the wounds from a small pocket knife to the shoulder would not have caused death.
After her arrest, her family said that she was tortured to confess.
If she has been executed, it is another notch in the belt of Iran’s Sharia courts and medieval prison system . . . and a particularly sad day for all of humanity.
maxcat, I’m the one who brought up the topic and I think it’s horseshit there was a penalty called. I have slammed the NFL for many things and this is another stupid call I slammed them on.. But, making sure you are facing Mecca when you pray is a BIG DEAL if you’re Muslim. I saw Muslims when I was in Leavenworth teaching new inmates exactly where to face when praying. It’s not for me. He’ll he was sort of facing St. Louis, that’s good enough for me.
“I suspect that History has also repeatedly taught us that the wedding of no religion and government inevitably results in tyranny, too. The upshot is, that you end up with tyranny either way. Sooo, maybe you should blame government, and not religion.”
Maybe we should spell cat with a k as well.
Nick,
ISIS is a dog whistle; and you’re howling.
http://www.ibtimes.com/al-qaeda-bigger-immediate-threat-isis-us-officials-1688012
Apparently all it takes to send this country to war now is a few journalist’s heads and a couple of YouTube videos.
So why haven’t we invaded Saudi Arabia yet?
Precisely SWM.
When so many religious types get all incensed over any criticism of any aspect of Christianity, they are either fundamentalists themselves or simply haven’t done their homework on Christian fundamentalism or fundamentalism in other world religions and the extreme views they possess.
Nick –
Give the lad a break. He had just scored a touchdown in a bowl of a stadium. He can be forgiven if he wasn’t exactly sure which way Mecca was. As for the NFL, they couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag.
@Mark Appleton
You said, History has repeatedly taught us the wedding of religion and government inevitably results in tyranny,
I suspect that History has also repeatedly taught us that the wedding of no religion and government inevitably results in tyranny, too. The upshot is, that you end up with tyranny either way. Sooo, maybe you should blame government, and not religion.
I also think that reason is way over-rated as a motivator of human behavior.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky:
Actually the root of the word “religion” is the Latin verb “religare,” which means to bind back or reconnect, e.g., with God. So the opposite of religion would be an unbinding from God, or unbelief. Your view apparently is that religion is essential to avoid anarchy. I believe that reason is essential to avoid anarchy. History has repeatedly taught us the wedding of religion and government inevitably results in tyranny,
Mike – I just want to follow your logic here. So, anarchists are unreasoning? And would the logical step be that they are also illogical? Could this be a legal defense?
Actually the root of the word “religion” is the Latin verb “religare,” which means to bind back or reconnect, e.g., with God. So the opposite of religion would be an unbinding from God, or unbelief. Your view apparently is that religion is essential to avoid anarchy. I believe that reason is essential to avoid anarchy. History has repeatedly taught us the wedding of religion and government inevitably results in tyranny,
Mike – that is looking into the eye of the hurricane and everyone I make this observation too dissembles
An excellent posting by Mike Appleton which references the article “A Nation Under God” (linked below):
jonathanturley.org/2014/09/28/religious-freedom-and-the-values-voter-summit/
“A Nation Under God”
“Let others worry about the rapture: For the increasingly powerful Christian Reconstruction movement, the task is to establish the Kingdom of God right now, from the courthouse to the White House.”
—By John Sugg
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/12/nation-under-god
(Reconstructionists angrily denounce end-times visions like those of Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series: If these are the Last Days, American Vision’s website points out, “then why bother trying to fix a broken world that is about to be thrown on the ash heap of history? Why concern ourselves with education, healthcare, the economy, or peace in the Mideast? Why polish brass on a sinking ship?”)
Thank God for this anyway. He is going to have to keep them happy with the rest of the twaddle. That is really interesting. thanks for the link
Then of course there is this – http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/gary-demar
The quote was from Squeeky.
“Religion is just a convenient whipping boy for the pro-abortion crowd, and the Gaystapo.” That was the theme at the recent Values Voter’s convention but many religious people do not want a fundamentalist christian state religion whether they are catholic, jewish, muslim, hindu buddhist, quaker or agnosic or atheist or some other religion that I did not mention.
I used to sell beer and was also a season ticket holder @ Arrowhead Stadium. For a proper prayer, Abdullah should have been facing south/southeast to find Mecca. He was facing straight east.
Update: there are both reports that the execution has occurred and that the execution has been delayed.
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Schrödinger’s execution
Bob, ISIS. I see them as no different than Hitler. Both Hitler and ISIS were quite forthcoming in their intent, world domination. Hitler’s manifesto was race based, ISIS, religion based. And, like w/ Hitler, the world is putting their heads in the sand and hoping it all goes away. We need a Churchill. I see no one even close. We have discussed Israel previously and disagree civilly.
@swm
There isn’t a whole lot of difference between religion and law. They both work to proscribe certain behaviors in order to have a better society. The opposite of religion isn’t “the state”, it’s anarchy.
Religion is just a convenient whipping boy for the pro-abortion crowd, and the Gaystapo.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Update on the NFL story: Abdullah thought it was for sliding. Not clear what the ref was thinking.
NFL will be updating and clarifying instructions for officials.
http://rt.com/usa/191916-nfl-muslim-prayer-penalty/
Nick: “it’s time to go medieval on these b@stards. All they understand is power.”
Who are you talking about Nick; and why?
And which one of our founding fathers said Israel should be dictating our foreign policy?
“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publically to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church’s public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion, must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel.”
“So let us be blunt: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government, Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberties of the enemies of God.”
-Gary North
Both want to imposed their religious laws on the rest.
Seems like the “good ol’ days: here. The post is about Sharia law and the Dems here are talking about Christian conservatives. Throw back Tuesday?
paulette92122
Dredd ~
Dominion has proven itself ruthless.
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Yep.
One of the reasons is that they do not know where they are or they would see the folly in their dominionism (You Are Here).