On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:27 AM, The Fool wrote:
<<http://feministing.com/archives/002691.html>>
Iran to hang teenage girl who fought back against rapists
This is pretty horrible stuff. A teenage girl in Iran has been
sentenced to death by hanging after she admitted that she accidentally
killed a man who was trying to rape her and her niece.
Religious fanaticism is a poison.
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do
not
find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions
of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of
Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What
has
been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and
the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the
earth."
--Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Short
I rather doubt that that the Iranians in question are Christian.
Dave
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