Anand Utsav sent a mail to many with
the subject "unbelievable! !!"
"An 8 years old child was caught in a market in
Iran for stealing bread.
In the name of Islam he is being punished, his
arm will be crushed by a car.
He will loose forever the possibility to use his
arm again.
Is this a religion of peace and
love?"
The horrible pictures are on YouTube
"An Atrocious Crime"
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=9htpx1N2qco
Unbelievable? indeed!
Only a little reasearch shows, it is nothing but an urban
legend.
But people are ready to believe anything,
especially about Islam and Iran.
There are already enough splits in the
world. No need to create even more.
"Comments: The preceding images are apparently
authentic -- they were published as such in 2005 on the Iranian news Web site
Peyke Iran, at any rate -- but the accompanying caption doesn't jibe with the
original report and was clearly fabricated after the fact.
According to a Peyke Iran spokesperson who
corrected the record last November in a note posted on Little Green Footballs,
the young boy whose arm was run over was not being punished for a crime. He was
part of a "Maareke giry" or street magic act and allegedly performed the stunt
for money (note the gentleman speaking into a microphone in image #1). The
seventh and eighth pictures in the series, which appear to show the child
shaken
but otherwise unharmed after the ordeal, were omitted from the email flier but
can still be viewed on Peykeiran.com (where all the images are attributed to
photographer Siamak Yari)."
>From http://urbanlegends .about.com/ library/bl_ caught_stealing_ bread.htm
See also http://www.snopes. com/photos/ gruesome/ crushboy. asp
Here the missing last picture can be
seen.
