This punishment is barbaric, brutal, cruel, degrading, inhuman and uncivilized.

I was all for Iran progressing as nation with constructing their own nuclear programe and supported them in the face of the USA, however this takes a full reversal when you see the contempt shown to women. This sharia ritual is a barbaric relic that men use to keep a power structure over women, I respect the need to retain a national identity but can they say iranian men would get the same treatment for the same ‘crime’? It is all the more poignant for them to set an example, to oppose the resentment and rebellion that women are showing to such antiquated masculine laws. As far as the religious aspects are concerned, how can any enlightened religion be in favour of such fickle laws, albeit islam, christianity or judaism. The common denomonator as ever is power.

This kind of punishment is repulsive, degrading, and disgusting. I feel so lucky that I dont live in a country like that.

Under research analysis the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashitiani seems to be a nazi war crime that is from the Nazi Party and the Skulls and Bones Secret Society who are thought to be relating Sakineh to the name Sophia as representing Holy Wisdom, especially about protection of children and minds. The nazis have been trying to kill Mothers and steal their children. Also it is thought to relate for nazis to Madelaine a famous resistance agent trained by Churchill. It is thought that Sakineh might have been tortured and raped via an electro-magnetic/elf wave nazi control system that probably set her up to start with. The Skulls and Bones/nazis don’t like women and are thought to be trying to liquidate them in favour of reproduction for slave labour from a laboratory. The New World Order, nazi/bolsheviks, are under old slaver families. Sakineh’s execution would be illegal under International Law and it would be really also under the Koran as Jesus Christ is the Muslims’ Second Prophet. Christ’s idea that people should not be executed for adultery, especially as it can have been set up politically should be applied. John 8 coordinates with Jeremiah 17:18.

Is there a template or somewhere on web that we can sign letters to UN and other agencies for stopping these barbaric acts?

Everyone should watch the movie “Stoning of Soraya” to have a better understanding the slow and cruel death this poor mother is about to go through. The movie changed my life and has forced me to react to the inhuman practice of stoning. I want to help–I’m not sure what is the best way. Please respond.

Please,please,please STOP this in the name of God !

[...] The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran also issued an appeal to the Iranian Judiciary to halt her execution and to the Iranian parliament to abolish the death by stoning punishment. [...]

Stoning is one of the most extreme expression of violence and surpression where women is the target

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May peace be upon you. The disparity of this sentence brings the character of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to bear: Muslim Sahih Al-Bukhari “The Book
of Good Manners” “It is one of the Greatest Sins that a person should curse their parents”: said Muhammad(May Peace Be Upon Him).
It is more likely if the only punishment for the man, was 10 years in prison, they who hear of this injustice to the woman, which included that and 99 lashes and stoning, violates the great Prophet’s wishes and leaves people to curse their parents for teaching them this twisted form of Islam. Let the woman go. Perhaps she will still follow Islam in its mercy. saltedlightcom

I can not believe that acts like this still occur. Times have changed yet stood still in this country. Have these people have no heart or common sense. Where is the justice for all women young and old in Iran?

I read tonight that Sajjad Mohammidia Ashtian’s mother is scheduled imminently for stoning. She had received 99 lashes for her sin of adultery and found innocent of being involved in her husband’s murder. As the mother of two sons who were tormented by their father and psychologically abused by their father for 25 years, (to the point of suicide attempt on my part)I plead to let this woman go back to the children who obviously love her and strongly believe that her punishment is enough. I don’t know how she survived 99 lashes. She deserves to give and receive love from her children. Her sin of adultery has been paid for and it obviously was an act to escape a situation that was beyond unacceptable for her. Please release her and add to love in the world. There is so little love and we need to nourish it, not kill it.

wow, it is amaizing. Could you imagine if we will do the same with all the man that had been chiringn on their wives ?
We will not have many man around the world.
But social standars and belives aprove this without major issues.

Can I just say that the act of stoning someone to death is IRRATIONAL, not to mention cruel and inhumane. If you injure someone, stone someone to death, you are a murderer!!! What religion supports this ill-thought? I’m sorry, but NONE! Unless you worship the devil!!

Where are the Hollywood do gooders now, where is the NOW org,where are the the lilly livered liberals that didn’t want Gitmo while Bush was in charge, where is our compassionate head of state and president, where are the people at the universities that are speaking out about human rights,where is the UN, wheres Clinton biting his lip…….Hipocrites that what they are… the Liberal Machine is so hell bent on destroying other religions that they turn a blind eye to the most horrendous religious group that ever walked on this earth .The islamic death machine marches forward each couple producing 6.8 children that someday will conquer and kill our children that come from a family of 2.2 children.Glad I won’t live long enough to see the product of our stupid political correctness…….Yames…..Houston Tx

Wheres Matt Laurer,Diane Sawyer,Chis mathews,Racheal Maddow,Al Gore,Michael Moore,Ted Koppel,Andy Rooney,Larry King,Barbra Striesand,Cherryl Crow,Oprah Winfrey,Brad Pitt,Sean Penn Madonna, Angelina Jolie. Nancy Grace Anderson Cooper,………….Wheres NBC,CBS,ABC,PBS,CNN,MSNBC NEW YORK TIMES,HOUSTON CHRONICLE,LA TIMES,AND ALL THE OTHER LIBERAL BIASED news HYPOCRITES…………….oh and did CINDY SHEEHAN DIE

We have all learned from this woman’s experience in her marriage and through her punishment. On behalf of women and children around the world, please, PLEASE let her go. Sakineh, in my prayers tonight are you, your children and the judge who has the power to release you. May God bless you immediately.

Nowhere in the Holy Quran, there is a commandment that a person should be put to death for committing adultery or any other crime. The punishment for adultery in Islam (if witnessed by four witnesses, for a man and a woman alike) is 100 stripes. The purpose is not to break the skin. Humiliation is the actual punishment.

You can sign a petition available via this website. http://www.politicalwild.com/2010/07/please-help-end-this-nightmare-and-do.html

My thoughts, my heart, and my tears are with this woman and her children tonight. I hope she finds the strength to carry her head high. I also hope that the powers at work in the Iranian Judiciary are strong enough to look deep, very deep inside themselves and feel shame.

I hope and pray with other like minded christians and non christians, that thas barbaric punishment will never be aloud. My thoughts and prayers are with this lady and her two children.

Stoning to death as a punishment for adultery is NO WHERE spoken of in the Holy Quran. At one instance stoning was done to a Jew- that was based on the Jewish Holy Book. The Jews referred a case on
fornication to Muhammad-the Messenger of God (pbuh). He asked them what punishment the Torah prescribed in case of adultery. The Jews tried first to conceal the fact that it was stoning to death, but the Jewish scholar living then ( Abd-Allah ibn Salam) admitted the existence of such a punishment and the guilty persons were dealt with as given in Torah ( Bukhari 61;25).
The New Testament narrates a similar incident during the time of Jesus Christ(puh)

I quote from John Chapter 8 Verses 3,4 and 5.
Verse 3. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to him (Jesus) a
woman caught in adultery. And when they set her in the midst.
Verse 4. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in
adultery, in the VERY ACT.
Verse 5. “Now Moses, in the law commanded us that such SHOULD BE
STONED. But what do you say?” JOHN 8: 3-5
So you can see that stoning was the punishment for adultery in the
Jewish Law and that in the case of Jewish offenders, this punishment
was resorted to by the Holy Prophet Muhammad( pbuh) when he was the ruler of Medinah.

Was the same punishment given to Muslims in Medinah at any time? Yes. It is true that the same punishment was given in certain cases when the offenders were Muslims. BUT CERTAINLY THIS WAS BEFORE THE
REVELATION OF THE QURANIC VERSE 24:2.
“ As for the adulteress and the adulterer-flog each of them with a
hundred stripes, and let not compassion with them keep you from this
law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day; and let a group of the believers witness their chastisement” 24:2
Verse 24:2 speaks of MILD flogging, aiming at disgracing the offenders rather than torturing. The number of those to witness has been deliberately left unspecified, thus indicating that while the mild punishment must be given publicly, it need not be made a ‘public spectacle’.

The Arabic word for flogging is JALD( means: skin). In other words,
the punishment by flogging should be felt only by the skin. It aims
more at disgracing the culprits rather than torturing them. Hence the Holy Quran positively excludes death or stoning to death. In fact, anyone who does deep research and objective interpretation of the Quranic Verse 4: 25, can see that, all possibilities of death as a punishment for adultery are precluded.
Verse 4.25 gives the law on punishing for immoral conduct
(fornication) Of believing maidens ( the community rightfully possess) They shall be liable to HALF the penalty to which free married women are liable. The weaker social status of a slave woman makes her, obviously more accessible to sexual temptation than a free married woman is presumed to be.

Now the important point here is to understand that the number of 100
flogging can be halved but death or stoning to death can never be
halved. So it is very clear that the Holy Quran speaks about flogging not death as a punishment for adultery.

Now the question arises: Why did the prophet punish the Muslim
adulterers making use of the Laws of Moses?
The answer is, it was the Prophet’s practice to follow the earlier
revealed law until he received an amended and a definite law on a
specific wrong doing. People well versed in the evolution of Islamic
law knew that drinking of alcohol was not prohibited in the beginning. People were not allowed to come to pray being drunk, but drinking itself was not forbidden until much later. The same thing was true about personal money lending and charging interest on personal loan as it was practised by Abbas (raa) The revelation about the prohibition on interest on personal lending was received just a short while before the death of the Prophet.

The interpretation of the Quranic laws have been continuously
developing and evolving and scholars have been elaborating and making changes to the earlier interpretations.

Quran is the one and the only miracle of Islam. The adoring beauty of the Quran is that it throws a different light or a new light according to the time. No scholar’s interpretation on the Quran is the last word or final. Taqi ad Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyah ( 8th century’s greatest scholar)or Razi or Abu Muslim, might have given an interpretation on a particular Verse, but a great scholar like Shah Waliyullah ( 18th century) might have differed from that interpretation.
And now in the 21st century, Sheikh Qaradawi may find earlier
interpretations highly objectionable on several counts and give a
totally different meaning to the same Verse based on the particular
circumstances of the society now. The beauty of the Quran is that
there is absolutely no change in the original revealed words but
interpretations keep changing according to the environment,
circumstances, facts and lives of people. People who are going to live in the 25th century may find new light in the Quran that the present day scholars have never dreamt of.

Moreover, it is also for the Shariyah judge to decide the sort of
punishment to be given to suit the circumstances. Great latitude is
allowed to the judge in the choice of punishments.
So what we need is stronger Iman and deeper research in order to
understand the immense wisdom behind the Qu’ranic laws. We should
not jump to hasty conclusions. If all the trees are turned into pens
and all the seas are turned into ink, the pens and the ink will be
exhausted but God’s words will never be exhausted. Modern man thinks he is too intelligent and hence foolishly questions even some of the most accepted Quranic ethics probably because he wants to compete with the fast changing decadent Western culture and try to appease and apologize. There is nothing to apologize in the laws of One True Almighty God. God knew Best.

Where can we find a petition to ask for the immediate release of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtian.

Death by any means, at this point, is not acceptable.

We have shown — bless our International Community — that in uniting forces we can have a strong, powerful, and effective voice.

How do we hasten … how do we work to assure her release from prison?

Emma

I thinks it’s barbaric and terrible that in the 21 century, countries still do this kind of thing. I will pray for her and her family!!!

LET HER GO HOME TO HER KIDS.

I was once married to a man from Tabriz, the same place where they now intent to stone Sakineh to death, the truth is that he was abusive in more than one way, I was always afraid of him and I really believed that if I left him, he would kill me and he would take our baby away. I had to leave my own country in order to be able to lead a normal life with my baby. Leaving behind my family and friends and even giving up my dream of practicing my career in the United States. We are now divorced and our baby has contact with him only once a year. I still fear him, he still is full of anger and hatred towards me for leaving him and his mentality is still the same as it was when we were married, he believes in the superioity of men over women. He thinks the only good woman left in the wolrd is his mother and his mother believed there was no woman good enough to marry her son, so needless to say she disliked me, she only liked the fact that her son was able to obtain the citizenship through our marriage. Sad to say that even though we’re now divorced, he still hates me now as much as he did when we were living together. I’m not saying all the men from this town are the same or have the same mentality, but a lot of them do. I can understand why women won’t leave this troubled men, I know for a fact that fear can influence the decisions we make; and I really wanted to leave him the first month into the marriage. It just wasn’t easy. So, I really feel for Sakineh and the women outthere who are married to sick men and they are too afraid to leave, because no matter what, you lose your children, your family even your friends and in some cases, we fear for our lives. They always walk out clean, being portrayed as the victims because no matter what the truth is; they always make up their own story and the laws will stand by them. That’s just not fair. I’m still afraid of starting my life over; I’m still afraid he’s going to take my child away. But I’m on the look out and I’m not giving up just cause I fear him. God bless Sakineh and her beloved children. They need their mother with them; my heart goes out to them.

We have to keep fighting for social justice and against the barbaric way women are treated in certain cultures and countries.

It is to the international pressure, to us all together, to save this woman from such a conviction and make sure she is free of charges and back to her children.

This for all the women in the world who are still suffering under abusive patriarchal domination and laws.

This is just bullshit. As a muslim I know that this is completely wrong and it doesnt say any where in the Holy Quran that this is okay. Iranian Govt needs to sort itself out. Makes me very sad to think that this is still happening in the world..
It makes Islam look bad. Worse than it already looks thanks to the train and plane bombings.
Islam is a very understanding religion. Whatever is written in the Quran is from god himself and god knows whats best for us. Its things like this that make others hate Islam and it makes the lives of ordinary muslims like myself, harder.

how can there be any justificationfor this?; religious or otherwise…
religion, politics,morality. all excuses to abuse power…

this is sickening, maddening, and far more threatening than nucleur capability…

so what else will they do to her hang her flog her again she is still in great danger the world must stop these barbarians..she should be released immedietely and be supported,and live her life without fear.even though they have halted the stoning they will do other barbaric things.,but what can we do god i wish i knew .for her and lots of other people in iran and other countrys all over the world.the world must unite.

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I have heard that people protesting these barbaric stonings are stoning Iraq embassies and embassy cars around the world. Is this true?

[...] The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran also issued appeals to the Iranian Judiciary to halt her execution and to the Iranian parliament to abolish stoning as a form of execution. [...]

Doesn’t this show how ineffectual the UN is?

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