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.
Obama LYING
“Russia’s actions in Ukraine challenge this post-war order. Here are the facts. After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt President fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.”
Bob, Esq., I retrieved your comment at 3:29.
CYA
Nick and Bob, I have deleted an exchange between you that violated the civility rule.
“SWM – Christians of the progressive variety are an oxymoron. ;)’ Paul C Not really, once you get out of the south.
Obama LYING to the U.N.
Happypappies, thanks for that link about Gary Demar, wow. So many of these nuts now.
Yeah, hand in hand like Mike’s Profound comment here – 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,
Speaking of Dewar
Gee. Is the phrase “Obama LYING to the U.N.” forbidden around here now?
Obama LYING to the U.N.
“Russia’s actions in Ukraine challenge this post-war order. Here are the facts. After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt President fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.
This is a vision of the world in which might makes right – a world in which one nation’s borders can be redrawn by another, and civilized people are not allowed to recover the remains of their loved ones because of the truth that might be revealed. America stands for something different. We believe that right makes might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones; that people should be able to choose their own future.”
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/10/12/ted-cruz-dominionism-and-jesus/
A TRULY excellent article by former guest blogger Mike Spindell (who is sorely missed) discussing Dominionism, Reconsteuctionism and Ted Cruz.
“A 10-day reprieve”?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29429942
“A campaign calling for a halt to the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari was launched on Facebook on Monday
An Iranian woman due to be put to death for killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her is reported to have had her execution postponed.
Officials said on Monday that Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, had been transferred to a prison west of Tehran to be hanged.
But activists claimed on Tuesday that an online campaign had persuaded the state to give her a 10-day reprieve.
The human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/reyhaneh-jabbari-iran-postpones-execution-of-woman-due-to-hang-for-murder-of-her-alleged-attempted-rapist-9765187.html
Thanks, Bob.
Good question Dredd.
Nick,
My plan for what Nick?
For Ukraine? Throw Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt in prison and apologize to Russia.
For ISIS? I suppose the best strategy would be an eschatological one. Find the Hidden Imam; prove the existence of God. That sort of thing would end all Jihads for sure.
Why is Jonathan turning into a dark ages hack for a hatefest a la the crusades (On The Origin of the Crusader Pathogen, 2)?
Bob, What’s your plan?
on 1, September 30, 2014 at 2:38 pmPaul C. Schulte
bill mcwilliams – I have taken a couple of logic courses and gotten A’s in them. The type of thinking used by Progressives and the type of thinking used by Sharias is exactly the same.
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LMAO! Ok thanks for the joke Paul, that made my day! XD
Annie – I am as serious as a cold sore. My comment should be a wake-up call to you and your fellow Progressives. It won’t, but it should.
You were serious?!
Nick,
I guess you have no problem defrauding the “ham & eggers” of this country with a quick slight of hand between ISIS and Syria?
You wouldn’t mislead them; would you Nick?
Gee Nick,
Are you going after ISIS or Syria?
The dog whistle says you should seize the opportunity to combat ISIS and oust Assad in Syria.
Remember; what’s good for Israel is good for America. “Securing The Realm” they call it.
Or haven’t you been listening closely to your neocon friends?
Bob, In baseball the maxim is, “It’s better to trade a player too early than too late.” Well, w/ ISIS, I would rather confront them too early than too late. We almost were too late w/ Adolph.
Nick,
Comparing ISIS to Hitler is a rather hasty generalization for such a prudent man as yourself.
And besides, we have nothing against Nazis anymore. Why else would our own State Department “midwife” a putsch in Ukraine for the Neo-Nazis?
Bob, I am a patient and prudent man. I needed patience and prudence in my line of work. I don’t think it’s a dog whistle. Many were taking your view about Hitler in the 30’s.