... actually, no, the mullahs will:
An Iranian court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to death for violating the Islamic Republic's ban on drinking alcohol several times, a news agency said this week. Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, a person who is caught drinking for a fourth time and confesses faces possible capital punishment, even though legal experts say executions for this offence are very rare."My client had been drinking at home for a fourth time and he made some disturbance in the street and police arrested him," his lawyer, Aziz Nokandei, told the ISNA news agency...
Last week, Iran's judiciary chief ordered a halt to public executions in Iran unless they have his approval. While those sentenced to death would still be hanged behind prison walls, the move by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi appeared designed to lower the public profile of Iran's increasing number of executions.
Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's sharia law, practised since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Rights group Amnesty International says Iran has one of the highest rates of executions in the world.
One is tempted to make a joke about Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Iran, but this story isn't funny. It's yet another example of the depravity of a society where essential civil rights do not exist.
Consider it Iran's Four-Step Program for quitting drinking. They should make bumper stickers that read "I'm with Mahmoud". Instead of a coffee mug, the logo could be a noose.
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)
Posted by: anon | February 10, 2008 at 07:45 AM
Gracias por el contenido interesante!
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