The Islamic dystopia that the entire world appears to be copacetic with procuring nukes, shows yet again how backward and inhuman its medieval theocratic regime is. Iranian court orders man to be blinded (salute to Bruce T.)

An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed. …

Etemaad says the accused, identified only as Vahid, was 16 when he threw a bottle of acid at another man during a fight in a vegetable market in 1993. The top opened - Vahid insists accidentally - and blinded his victim in both eyes. A court said the crime should be judged as qisas, a category for which the Koran stipulates specific punishments, in this case an eye for an eye. The paper said the sentence was to pour acid on Vahid’s eyes, but an appeals court ruled it should be done surgically so as not to harm other parts of his face. Amnesty described the sentence as “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment amounting to torture”. It called for a change of sentence.

Human rights and legal specialists in Iran say unusual sentences are sometimes passed by Islamic courts, which are bound by rigid Koran injunctions for certain crimes.

Yeah, that Qur’an… It’s just chock full of wholesome goodness—and interpreted literally since the seventh century, Alhamdulilah! Once the mullocracy gets nukes, I think this little Qur’anic gem might be worth bearing in mind when considering our Israeli friends in the little Satan:

And He drove down those of the people of the Book (Jews) who backed them from their fortresses and He cast terror into their hearts; some you killed and you took captive another part. And He caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth, and land you have not walked upon. And Allah has power over all things. —Qur’an, 33.26

Said Patrick @ 11:36 pm | Permalink   

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