[softwarecreator]

So this is literally "An eye for an eye" justice?

[Onelifetogive]

I'll carry out the sentence...

[SIDENET]

Vahid, was 16 when he threw a bottle of acid at another man during a fight in a vegetable market

What the hell kind of vegetable market was he in?

[Hodar]

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.

Hmmm, he threw a bottle of acid at a man; and the bottle's lid accidentally came off? What an amazing coincidence!! Why, it's almost unbelieveable that such a thing would happen, while the jar was in mid-air, and the acid would by some miracle wind up in his target's eyes!! Amazing.

I for one, have absolutely no sympathy for this degenerate whatsoever. Act like a barbarian, live in a barbaric country, and reap the barbaric rewards.

[thoughtomator]

Where's Human Rights Watch? Oh, I forgot, they're critiquing the food at Guantanamo.

[FormerACLUmember]

Take i6t from Nick Berg and hundreds of millions of innocent people murdered since 622 AD, Islam is Evil Incarnate.

[FormerACLUmember]

Take i6t from Nick Berg and hundreds of millions of innocent people murdered since 622 AD, Islam is Evil Incarnate.

[NetValue]

"Reformists and dissidents fear human rights could suffer..."

What an understement! It sounds like a democrat preparing to understand the enemy for analysis and indictments.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I'm just waiting for Amnesty International, the international human rights people, and the liberal media to put up a cry over this. If they say anything, they'll say it's Bush's fault for enraging them so.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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.

...? :)

[mountn man]

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. .... Amnesty described the sentence as "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment amounting to torture". It called for a change of sentence.

Interesting. AI used stronger wording and was more vitriolic against our military in GITMO.

[Mister Baredog]

An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago

See how civilized Sharia law has become. They used to just gouge em out.

[Popman]

...unusual sentences are sometimes passed by Islamic courts, which are bound by rigid Koran injunctions for certain crimes. But they say these punishments are usually used as leverage for the amount of compensation to be paid by the offender to the victim.

In this case, the victim seeks £180,000, which a board of arbitration is trying to reduce because the defendant says he cannot pay. The board is also trying to persuade the victim's family to give up their demand that the crime should be classed as qisas.

So, the Koran law is used as a tool to get people to pony up to pay monetary penalties.

I guess a set of eyes are worth £180,000

[Spiff]

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.

Well, as long as the Iranians don't turn the AC knob a little to far counter-clockwise, or, heaven forbid, someone puts panties on his head. Then Amnesty International would get really upset.

[jmq]

State religion of Peace.........

[festus]

But for the 12 year old at the time bit I'd be siding with the muslims on this one.

There is no amount of jail time or beating that can equal blinding another man for the rest of his life.

The eye for an eye principle is a good one.

[axlhuckleberry]

That's a bit extreme. Iranians are nuts!

[Robert_Paulson2]

"Reformists and dissidents fear human rights could suffer under the new administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..."

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roflmao...

kill a couple hundred mullahs, imams and ruling clerics... then get back to us, habib.