Iranian Woman Gets an Eye for an Eye

I guess they really do go for the old eye for an eye punishment. She should be happy she's not in Saudi Arabia, otherwise they'd probably sentence her to lashes for being near this maniac.

One day soon, Ameneh Bahrami hopes Majid Mohavedi will be deliberately and slowly blinded. Sulphuric acid will be dropped into his eyes in a punishment mandated by a court in Tehran, Iran.

His crime: In 2004, he threw the same acid in Ms. Bahrami's face, blinding the 24-year-old electronics graduate.

Her crime: She had spurned his advances and refused to marry him, despite numerous approaches from his family, who are also considered complicit in the attack.

"I don't want to blind him for revenge," Ms. Bahrami, 31, told CNN in an interview in her parents' Tehran apartment.

"I'm doing this to prevent it from happening to someone else."

The two met in 2002 when they attended the same university. But Ms. Bahrami said the shy 19-year-old was merely a classmate who insisted on sitting next to her and brushing against her.

Once she stood up in class and screamed to get him to stop, the woman added.

But he continued to stalk her and make threats, even as he asked her to marry him.

"He told me he would kill me," she said. "He said, ‘You have to say yes.' "

His threats finally erupted into violence in November, 2004, when she was waiting at a bus stop after leaving the medical engineering company where she worked.

She said she sensed someone moving behind her. Turning round, she discovered Mohavedi, then felt a blinding pain as he tossed acid into her face.

The corrosive liquid dripped down her neck and on to her hands and arms as she tried to protect herself, leaving the young woman looking as though her flesh had melted.

Despite 17 operations, she lost one eye and has only limited sight in the other. Her face remains scarred, but she has run out of money for further surgery.

Two weeks after the attack, Mohavedi turned himself into police and confessed. He was convicted in 2005.

Attack victims in Iran usually accept "blood money:" a fine in lieu of harsh punishment. With no insurance and mounting medical bills, Ms. Bahrami could have used the cash, but she said no.

Asked by the judge if she wanted Mohavedi's face to be splashed with acid, she replied, "That is impossible and horrific. Just drip 20 drops of acid in his eyes so he can realize what pain I am undergoing."

"I told the judge I want an eye for an eye," she said in the CNN interview aired yesterday.

"People like him should be made to feel my suffering."

The punishment is legal under the Islamic Shariah principle of qias, equivalence or analogy, which allows retribution for violent crimes. The principle is also found in the Code of Hammurabi and the Old Testament.

Ms. Bahrami's lawyer, Ali Sarrafi, said Mohavedi had never shown any remorse.

"He says he did it because he loved her," Mr. Sarrafi said.

He told the court he still loved Ms. Bahrami, but if she asked for his eyes to be taken out, he would seek the same punishment for her.

"They must also completely empty out her eyes, since I'm not sure that she cannot secretly see," he said, according to a report in The Washington Post.

"The newspapers have made this a huge case, but I haven't done anything bad."

Acid attacks on women are common in Muslim countries, often because the victims refuse to marry the assailants or as a way of controlling them.

In November, Taliban insurgents sprayed acid on girls walking to school in Kandahar, blinding at least two of them.

Two weeks ago, Iran's Supreme Court rejected Mohavedi's appeal and upheld the blinding.

The punishment is expected to be carried out soon.

THE SPREADING ISLAMIC CRESCENT

It's quite shocking to see the lengths to which this dhimmified British government will go to ingratiate itself with Islam. I refer to the plans it has to issue special "Islamic bonds" to pay for PM Gordon Brown's public-spending programme by raising money from the Middle East.
Britain is to become the first Western nation to issue bonds approved by Muslim clerics in line with sharia law, which bans conventional loans involving interest payments as "sinful". The scheme would mark one of the most significant economic advances of sharia law in the non-Muslim world. It will lead to the ownership of Government buildings and other assets currently belonging to British taxpayers being switched wholesale to wealthy Middle-Eastern businessmen and banks. The Government sees sharia-compliant bonds as a way of tapping Middle-East money and "building bridges" with the Muslim community. Oh god.

We are, literally, being sold out by these scum in power. The United Kingdom may well become the first of the Western democracies to submit to Islam. We have an Archbishop of Canterbury who shills for Sharia and now a Chancellor of the Exchequer who sells our family silver for Sharia funded bonds. We really do need a revolution to win back our once proud Nation before the Islamic crescent casts a long shadow across it.

Cross posted on A Tangled Web.

Nigerian Muslims Rioting Over Cross Dressers

Clash over Nigeria cross-dressing

Police in northern Nigeria have clashed with Muslim youths angry at a Sharia court's decision to grant bail to 18 men accused of dressing as women.

For about 30 minutes, the protesters held up traffic on Bauchi's main street chanting slogans saying the accused men had been let off lightly.

Have the gay rights advocates on the left have seen this story?

"The 18 men were arrested two weeks ago in a hotel room in Bauchi, which is governed by the Islamic Sharia legal system.

Although they were initially accused of sodomy, the charges have now been changed to "indecent dressing" or cross-dressing and "vagrancy".

"Any (male) person who dresses .. in the fashion of a woman in a public place... will be liable to a term of one year or 30 lashes" a spokesman for the local sharia police, Muhamad Muhamad Bununu, told AFP news agency.

The Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning, but he said that was much harder to prove as four witnesses were needed.

More than a dozen Nigerian Muslims have been sentenced to death by stoning for sexual offences ranging such as adultery and homosexuality.

I personally don't care who sleeps with who, as long as they are consenting adults. Knock yourself out for all I care.

But those with "alternate lifestyles" need to start paying attention to what is going on around the world, and wake up to the fact that conservatives are not the biggest threat to your way of life.

Christiane Amanpour was unavailable for comment.