Wednesday
02May2007
Sharia Law's brutal punishments
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 01:39PM 
Woman being prepared for stoning in the Middle East In stone-age Northern Iraq, just a fortnight ago, a rabble of cursing, violent men bursts into a house and drags out a terrified Kurdish 17-year-old girl. Her screams and pleas for mercy fill the air which only fuels on the frenzy of the crowd. They tie her hands behind her back and bury her up to her chest in a crude pit dug in the ground outside the village limits. Her heart beating frantically, her screams turn into sobbing as she realizes that there will be no mercy today.
Around her in the crowd, she sees relatives amongst the twisted faces. Uncle Ahmed who used to bring her sweets. Surely he'll help her. She calls to him. He bends to select the rocks with the other men.
The instructions for a stoning are very specific; the rocks must not be so small as not to cause damage but not so big as to kill too quickly. The men find the most jagged rocks they can and the first ones pound her face, breasts and shoulders. Her cries die out as the first blood and spittle spray from the girl's upper body. Her agony lasts for 30 minutes.
This is the punishment inflicted on a young Kurdish girl, a non-Muslim this month for being away from home for the night with her boyfriend, a Muslim. She had originally been given shelter in the home of a Yezidi tribal leader. His home was stormed to seize the victim and carry out this inhuman punishment. Believing that the girl, a Yezedi had been murdered by her family for converting to Islam to please her boyfriend, the enraged Muslims then stormed the Yezedi community to take revenge. I quote:
This stoning, incidently, led to the massacre of 23 Yezedis by Muslims who believed Du'a was murdered for converting to Islam.I could not watch the video but I have fleshed out the story from research I've done on other eye-witness reports of stonings in the Middle East. The video clip of an eye-witness of this particular stoning and further details can be found here It's unknown how many women are being stoned in the Middle East. This site believes that there are several in Iran waiting for stoning to be carried out now, while this site gives further details of more stonings and some other gruesome death sentences being carried out. It's time that this barbaric culture puts an end to stoning, hanging, amputation, flogging and all other barbaric tortures being carried out in the name of Sharia Law. And while this goes on across the planet, Sharia Law seeps in under our own front doors! Cross-posted at RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
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Reader Comments (38)
Allah's mercy be praised!!!
I watched that video on a different website and was literally physically sick. Normally I can feel disgust and horror at this kind of thing but watch without becoming too emotionally involved. That video was the worst thing I have ever, ever seen.
That poor girl suffered terribly, and the cries of "allah ackbar' were clear.
These men are nothing more than savages who get some kind of sick and twisted joy out of this. They worked themselves up to a frenzy. Even more disgusting, the video I watched clearly showed many of them taking pictures with their mobile phones. They also covered up the poor girl's backside more than once with a jacket or something, when her skirt rode up. It was as if they were trying to cover her bloody modesty - as if they were being pious. Repulsive, ignorant murderers!
I only wish more of the lefty cultural relativists would watch it - we're not all the same and this barbarity should be stopped, regardless of "tradition" or "culture".
On behalf of my male sex, I wish to protest at the use of the word 'men' to refer to such vile creatures.
Women support other women being subjected to this and often defer to patriarchy when it comes to condemning women for sins. As the infamous picture above shows - thats a woman on the right hand side. And in the pictures of hangings in Iran it is a woman who puts the rope around a sinning womans neck. Hence the reasons so many on the Left have been able to wriggle out of condemning it. After all - as the numerous cases of honour killings in the UK show - we will turn a blind eye because its cultural/religious. If it was presented to us in video format and we were told it was in Bradford maybe something would be done about it.
Horrifying story. If this can happen in the Middle East, the mind boggles at what might be taking place in various corners of North Africa.
It's obvious that the way to fight this extremism is by supporting liberal education institutions rather than the oil sheikhs and dictators who are the current beneficiaries of western funds.
Saudi Arabia is the key and the US' flawed policies in regard to its Saudi alliance are going to create mayhem in the decades to come.
The silence of the BBC, the UN, Amnesty International, and the rest of the human rights industry demonstrates what vile useless bag of shite they all are.
The silence of the BBC, the UN, Amnesty International, and the rest of the human rights industry demonstrates what vile, useless and evil bunch they all are.
What sort of slow witted bigoted fool can Adrian be if the manages to blame this atrocity on the USA? That is really stretching reality!
Seems people are more concerned with a child in Ireland being stopped from aborting a dead baby Dee than to your video. Good eh?
Adrian: Are you offering India's treatment of women as a model?
Sharia Law is brutal and we should fight against it. However, the last time I saw the picture above and read the narrative about the methodology and the size of stones to be selected it was claimed to be from Iran and it was a lot longer than a fortnight ago. The video, however, is new to me.
Alison your'e so right to highlight the relevance of patriarchy. The women colluded yes but I imagine they had little choice - to raise opposition would have been to risk tainting themselves. I felt the same about the women protesting outside Paddington Green - we may joke but Im sure they had little option but to be there. I'm disappointed that so few Muslim women in the UK speak out against Sharia and Jihadism, but even the educated ones are wary of alienating the family/community network. There are exceptions though like brave Gina Khan from Birmingham
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1354063.ece
Sara - yes i posted on her here at ATW a while back, glad youve heard of her - she is *fantastic* for speaking out & i really admire here. You should also check out Ni Putes Ni Soumises in France. There are also women in Palestine speaking out against honour killings.
Im not so sure about the Paddington crew. And the pic Mr Smith has posted above shows something in attitude also. I think they like being part of the gang here in the UK - a bit like a religious gangsta's moll.
Elsewhere there are women who stand up to sharia but i also think there are some who cant see past it at all and believe in deference as good for them and god fearing. Thats all they know though..
read your Deuteronomy and stop blaming the Muslims!!!
Peter T - are you saying soemone might be (shock) circulating footage that is recycled?
NRG,
Did I blame this atrocity on the USA?
What slow-witted illiterates you get posting nowadays!
I merely pointed out that current US Middle East policies (list them: buying oil, conquering countries and supporting Israel - all no doubt very constructive from the American point of view) are failing to prevent the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and I suggest an alternative that might work: Finance and train liberal Muslims to go in there and gradually take over the key educational institutions and the mass media.
Sorry if I sounded bigoted but I'm only targetting America because...well...it's there! (like the guy who climbed Everest...or was it Jungfrau?)
Mahons,
I treat all Indian women by ignoring them equally so I guess I wouldn't have enough information to propose Indian Models to tickle your tastebuds.
How was the Vocation Sunday collection?
Oops sorry almighty, I didn't know you were online.
Adrian: Pure coincidence - it was a Mission Sunday and we had a delighful Franciscan who knew less sermon ment more giving. I contributed to the collection and specified that it should go towards humility re-education for our Indian seminarians.
I didn't quite know what I was looking at in the video.
At first I thought she had been so badly stoned that there was no skin on her top half (hence the red) but she was in fact just wearing a red top. I then thought perhaps it was stained red because she was bleeding so badly underneath but there was no blood on her legs or hands, though her face was red.
Just from the word "stoning" I can tell that this was a terrible, evil crime, I'm just not sure what I was seeing on the video.
Adrian -
"Finance and train liberal Muslims to go in there and gradually take over the key educational institutions and the mass media."
What an interesting idea! Can I ask where you got it from? Has it been tried elsewhere, perchance? Who by? Was it successful?
Pete - good points.
>>I contributed to the collection and specified that it should go towards humility re-education for our Indian seminarians.<<
LMAO!!
Yesterday morning at mass father mentioned it was the feast of St Joseph the worker, the Catholic reponse to godless, communist May Day. Yet on another thread you yet again talked abouth the re-distribution of wealth. You're Catholisism seems very tinged with Marxist thought.
Charles - Please tell me the tinged with Marxist thought Catholicism is directed at St. Adrian of Delhi (the Patron Saint of anti-Americanism). As isms go, Marxism is not my cup of tea
>>is directed at St. Adrian of Delhi (the Patron Saint of anti-Americanism). <<
LOL!
Mahons, Oh yes, that was directed at Adrian. The only Marxism I could accuse you of is the Groucho kind!
Charles: got me.
Dee,
Much as I hate to say it, this article contains a fairly serious error. This was a classic honour killing, stoning to death because a member of a fundamentalist religion stepped outside the boundaries her barbaric people's equally barbaric cultural mores set for her.
But neither the girl nor her murderers were Muslim, nor was she executed 'under sharia law'. Whilst I have no hesitation in condemning the barbarity of Sharia, *this* wasnt actually it and it is quite clearly incorrect to say so.
"Much as I hate to say it, this article contains a fairly serious error."
No surprise there. I used to fact check ATW articles at random and invariably found at least one serious error. So much so that I gave up and now simply assume that they are all BS until I hear it somewhere else. All good fun though.
Little lord pimpelroi
birmingham has been laying on struck me
Birminham, where 6 randomly selected law and false orde, (does anyone know if there is a prize for the maximum inate me) and were illegaly incarcerated for which they were financially rewarded when the light.
gee pimplroi i think I messed up again
don't cry no one thinks any less of you. of course no one could possibwer their opinion of after zero. nothing
You said: read your Deuteronomy and stop blaming the Muslims!!!
Dear Legend in your own Mind, I could assume that your comment was a nefarious attempt to silence me on the basis that you researched my blog and found me to be a Christian. You will find that I'm not easily intimidated if that is the case. However, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, despite the fact that you've gone off the topic of the gruesome barbaric stonings, floggings and beheadings that are going on in the Middle East to a discussion of the book of Deuteronomy. SO to satisfy your longing for spiritual truths, I offer the following two links where you can go and debate this topic with a master in Biblical apologetics:
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2007/03/15/time-to-trim-the-bible/
http://www.tektonics.org/nutshell/nutshellhub.html#C
(The second is more informational but you may ask Bill any questions you may have in your sincerity and he will gladly oblige you with an answer as he does to his many other 'sincere' seekers of truth)
Dee,
Much as I hate to say it, this article contains a fairly serious error. This was a classic honour killing, stoning to death because a member of a fundamentalist religion stepped outside the boundaries her barbaric people's equally barbaric cultural mores set for her.
But neither the girl nor her murderers were Muslim, nor was she executed 'under sharia law'. Whilst I have no hesitation in condemning the barbarity of Sharia, *this* wasnt actually it and it is quite clearly incorrect to say so.
You're absolutely right. This girl wasn't killed under Sharia Law (I'm pretty sure that I didn't say that her particular stoning was). The initial story was about that particular stoning but the many others listed in my conclusion are related to Sharia Law. Although the stoning in question wasn't Sharia, the revenge killings that followed probably were. I could also have described in almost identical terms the stories in the links that I provided which were Sharia Law.
I take your point though that my condemnation of Sharia Law itself would have been stronger had I described one of the other killings that I included in my links. I guess I see a dominant religion as often an intrinsic determiner of a culture, and, as in many of these countries stoning is a state sanctioned activity, this has provided the climate for this particular killing to be considered appropriate (though I'm pretty sure that you won't hear this kind of thing from minority Christians or Jews in these countries, and please correct me if I"m wrong).
I was particularly affected by this killing since the girl was barely out of her childhood and the event happened just two weeks ago, which is probably why I focused on it.
Seems people are more concerned with a child in Ireland being stopped from aborting a dead baby Dee than to your video. Good eh?
Sounds about par for the course, J.
Mahons,
Thanks for the mite, mate! I'll make sure I spend it on being humbler...when it reaches me that is...I shall earnestly accept it as a contribution towards combating Marxism and Anti-Americanism in my own ideology.
Pete Moore, goodish point.
But my reply is that your moral relativist pseudo-liberals have almost entirely extinguished Christianity in large areas of Europe by the simple expedient of not discussing it.
The same can happen in the Islamic world as well. It needs to be de-Islamicised. Muslims must be made to feel that their religion and its institutions are as insipid and meaningless as many Europeans find Christianity to be.
They used to be called the WOGS until political correctness freed them to insult us on a daily basis.
this picture looks very fake, if any one wants to discover the truth about Islam then visit- http://uk.youtube.com/user/wallidjan
This needs to end!
Nothing to see here really,I suppose it is up to the viewers imagination really to decide what is going on.
I am not convinced she has been stoned, she could have been hit by a truck for all I know.
About as convincing as the stars and stripes flapping in the wind on the moon.
dee i too am a christian and i believe sharia law is just an excuse for so called men or should i say animals to beat and bully women to keep them in line and do what they want and say its allahs will, the pain and suffering women endure all in the name of allah is sickening and i am glad im a christian. i wouldnt want to be associated with such barbarism. its a law i think should have died out along time ago.
catholics condemning these punishments, is it any worse than burning 200000 people for their association with withcraft? it's so easy to call a foreign culture "barbaric" but take a look at your own history. try researching the religion a little more, it's not all about raping and murdering women. what a childish conclusion to believe.