Iran Airs Documentary on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

I think they should just release her and let her leave Iran

Why does the West have to stick their noses where it's not wanted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhn-8uUtPk&feature=player_embedded


However executing her for adulatory while the convicted murderer is released - this is what caused the outrage in the west.

Who actually even cares? Its a completely different culture, with different rules, different religion, different morals and values as the west. If their law clearly states such and such a rule, then thats it. Its got nothing to do with us. The west is equally as "bad" with Guantanamo etc. We need to stop policing the world. We wouldnt like it if they used their rules here....

They should execute her for killing. I don't understand why they let her go. Justice is needed.

I'm amazed that they were given so much permission by the Iranian authorities.

They don't let her go. She's still scheduled for execution, but not for murder./

The west isn't a synonymous for the USA. Everybody deserves freedom and liberty, we are in a position of power to help those that can't help themselves. If you saw a child getting beaten up severely by an adult (non-parental), would you help him out or would you just leave him there to continue being abused and possibly killed because it's none of your business?

That is a good point, but we are in no position to play these "moral" games (as states). A child being beaten is universally accepted as bad. But a woman being executed for a "crime" (in her culture it is viewed as a crime) is not a universally accepted law. My point is that morality IF morality is not absolute, then we cannot ever point the finger to others who have different cultural values.

This has nothing to do with "culture". Iranian culture abhors this type of barbarity. This is a result of the fundamentalist Islamic laws which have been imposed on the Iranian people for the past 31 years by the unelected Mullah oligarchy.

Before 1979 you would never have been executed in Iran for the "crime" of adultery, let alone stoned. It wasn't even a crime back then.

Before 1979, if you didnt lick the shahs crack, or wore a hijab, or publicly said "i like khomeini" then youd be tortured and then executed.

Dont play the game that the shah is all well and good. He is worse than saddam.

The west isn't a synonymous for the USA. Everybody deserves freedom and liberty, we are in a position of power to help those that can't help themselves. If you saw a child getting beaten up severely by an adult (non-parental), would you help him out or would you just leave him there to continue being abused and possibly killed because it's none of your business?

I think you'll find that women had the freedom to wear the hejab before 1979. They also had the freedom not to wear it, a freedom not granted by these feral Mullahs that you're defending.

You seem to have mistaken me for a monarchist, I am not. The Shah was a political dictator, but he did not interfere in people's personal lives. And that's historical fact, and the end of the discussion as far as I'm concerned.



Erm. When did the Shah ever use chemical weapons or start attacking his neighbours?

I'm not getting into the game of "who's the worst dictator" with you, but in terms of body count, both Saddam and the Mullahs have far more blood on their hands.