Report: Serial Killers Cleared by Iranian Supreme Court as Victims' Activities Were Un-Islamic

Fox News ^ | April 15, 2007

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The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.

The men were convicted for a series of grisly killings in the southeastern city of in 2002. The vigilantes were said to believe that Islam condoned the killing of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims, the BBC reports.

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My apologies for the forced heavy editing...please click on the Fox News link to read the full story.

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From the BBC:

BBC NEWS Middle East Group cleared over Iran murders

Group cleared over Iran murders

By Frances Harrison
BBC News, Tehran

 

The accused men believed they were allowed to kill immoral people

Iran's Supreme Court has acquitted a group of men charged over a series of gruesome killings in 2002, according to lawyers for the victims' families.

The vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities, the court found.

The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.

The serial killings took place in 2002 in the south-eastern city of Kerman.

'Morally corrupt'

The case raises serious questions about vigilantes in Iran taking justice into their own hands and undermining the rule of law.

Up to 18 people were killed in just one year, but only five of the murders were tried in court.

According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.

The accused, who were all members of an Islamic paramilitary force, told the court their understanding of the teachings of one Islamic cleric allowed them to kill immoral people if they had ignored two warnings to stop their bad behaviour.

But there was no judicial process to determine the guilt of the victims in these cases.

The group even killed a young couple they thought were involved in sex outside marriage, but media reports say the couple were either married or engaged to be married.

Lawyers for the victims' families say the Supreme Court has five times overturned the verdict of a lower court that found all the men guilty of murder.

Now the Supreme Court is reported to have acquitted all the killers of the charge of murder on the grounds that their victims were all morally corrupt.

Some of the group may, however, face prison sentences or have to pay financial compensation to their victims' families.

[Brilliant]

“The vigilantes were said to believe that Islam condoned the killing of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims...”

And apparently, it does.

[navyguy]

Death Cult.

[Quick or Dead]

Thank you Jimmy Carter.

[dighton]

And I thought our Ninth Circuit was goofy.

[Riptides]

Boy, that Islam....sure is a religion of “peace”

[magslinger]

Don’t worry, this is coming soon to the Ninth Circus Court of Schlemiels.

[machogirl]

“pieces”

[machogirl]

or to the nearest euro court

[SampleMan]

The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.

And the Iranians have dutifully given the United States two warnings.

This isn't just a defense in a trial, its Iran's foreign policy.

[kdot]

According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.

Okay. So they felt entitled to kill the sinners, but it seems they got pleasure by torturing them. This cult of a religion has no humanity. They are savages.

It's no wonder they hate us. They consume the products of US liberalism (MSM, Hollywood) and judge us all. Then, the coward liberals try to stop us from protecting ourselves.

We're in deep.

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Iran Ping

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Middle East / Political ping

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Muslim Englightenment Ping

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Religion Of Peace Ping

[dagoofyfoot]

This is why these islama-@$$holes keep screaming that they want their own "islamic court system" when they're busted in western countries....it's all about freakin' "jihad"


(getting away with cold blooded murder)


these @$$hats where probably high-fiving each other on the way out of the court room...sickening!

[magslinger]

What happens in Eurabia, stays in Eurabia. IMHO I owe nothing but a little gratitude to the European nations that kicked my ancestors out. I owe nothing at all to the two or three other nations. Allowing European court decisions to influence American law is as foolish as say allowing anyone who wants to enter the US.

[RDTF]

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[Chewbacca]

If it was in the USA, per this ruling we could kill roughly 98% of our own politicians and get away with it.

[isom35]

their own hands and undermining the rule of law...yes their normal rule of law is of course mild mannered and fair...