Tuesday, December 14, 2004

They Want Us to Live This Way Too

By way of Doc Rusty (who’s changed the name of his blog again, if you’re keeping up, although this one is eye-catching to be sure), we have this atrocity from the religion of peace:

A 19-year old girl, “Leyla M”, who has a mental age of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for “morality-related” offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.

Leyla M was reportedly sentenced to death on charges of “acts contrary to chastity” by controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives and giving birth to an illegitimate child. She is to be flogged before she is executed. She had apparently “confessed” to the charges. Earlier reports stated that there would be an appeal, and the 28 November report indicates that this process is now at an end.

Social workers have reportedly tested her mental capacities repeatedly and each time have found Leyla to have a mental age of eight. However, she has apparently never been examined by the court-appointed doctors, and was sentenced to death solely on the basis of her explicit confessions, without consideration of her background or mental health.

Leyla was forced into prostitution by her mother when she was eight years old, according to the 28 November report, and was raped repeatedly thereafter. She gave birth to her first child when she was nine, and was sentenced to 100 lashes for prostitution at around the same time. At the age of 12, her family sold her to an Afghan man to become his “temporary wife”. His mother became her new pimp, “selling her body without her consent” (from Amnesty International)

To answer the Doc’s question, I oppose legalizing the world’s oldest profession, but at the same time, I oppose the death penalty.  Ergo, I’m thinking a little fine, maybe a night in the tank. But more than wondering what us right wing nut jobs think, I wonder what our Blue State friends think.  After all, they don’t seem to think we’re at war with these savages.  Rather, they want to arrest Osama and go home. Painful though it may be to realize, the savages who profane and twist their own faith intend a very different home for us - and they’ve been trying to impose it for fourteen centuries.  Don’t expect them to stop anytime soon - certainly not when they’d execute such an unfortunate being for their own self-righteousness.

Posted by Matt on 12/14 at 10:58 AM
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