" TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A woman was executed after a court ordered that she be stoned to death for acting in pornographic movies, a newspaper reported Monday.
The woman, 35, was partially buried in a hole at Tehran's Evin prison and stoned to death Sunday after her conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court, the daily Entekhab said.
Police arrested the woman eight years ago on charges of acting in "obscene sex films."
The woman, who was not identified, denied committing any crime, but evidence and testimony by witnesses led judiciary officials to issue the stoning sentence, the daily said.
The paper gave no further details. Judiciary officials were not available for comment Monday.
Stoning is a rare punishment in Iran, where drug smugglers and murderers are usually condemned to death by hanging. "
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Hey, we were voted off the Human-Rights commission. It's not our problem now.
Call.. who is it, France?
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Hey! Didn't the Nazis force jews to were patchs so that people can tell them apart from non-jews? *sigh* So the dance continues.
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The taliban need to go away. You don't treat girls like that, you should be nice to girls.
Can't the "other muslim nations" that supposedly condemned their actions have at them, diplomatically speaking? They are disgracing a perfectly good religion, FFS.
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I'd comment, but my statements would be condemned as pure bigotry. Let's just say I have a strong prejudice against islamic cultures because I find them all barbarous.
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Oh.....you mean like holding Inquisitions, excommunicating scientists who contradict the Bible, burning presumed witches at the stake, fighting crusade after crusade to massacre the heathens, or spreading smallpox to put the fear of God into the native Americans so they'll be weakened and easier to convert?
You mean barbarous like that?
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Trust me Infinity, the Christians have a worse batting average - when it comes to doing way with apostates and sinners.
Face it people, Lennon knew what he was saying in "Imagine" (...and no religion too).
Religion was an important part of pulling the human race out of barbarism - but it can be compared to using a ladder to climb out of a pit. After you've climbed it - using the ladder only brings you down into the pit again.
- Schmidt's Maxim on Religion
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quote:"They are disgracing a perfectly good religion..." Bah! There is no such thing... :-)
true dat..
Ahh, but do you see any of this in recent times? All religions are bad, and I thoroughly beleive that, but the followers of the others have surpassed fundamentalism to a certain level where at least they don't kill people for breaking a religious law. Most muslims i know aren't like that, but they live in a civilized western society, under the influence of a society with more "enlightened" and liberal views and most of them aren't very religious.
This is the problem, if you listen to a religion you will be a stupid unenlightened shit for brains, and all of the countries that i see in big wars right now are islamic fundies, my oppinion may not be very politically correct, but it is very statistically correct
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if you listen to a religion you will be a stupid unenlightened shit for brains
And if you don't, you'll STILL be a "stupid unenlightened shit for brains," as you so eloquently put it. What you believe isn't what determines your intelligence. HOW you believe it, and how you put that belief into effect, can be an indicator of your intelligence, but what you believe certainly can't.
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Omega, for someone who can at time be so dense, you can sometimes speak with an eloquence that, frankly, blows me away. Very well said.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** Card-Carrying Member of the FlareAPAO *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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