“Save our Mother” – Stop the Stoning of a Woman in Iran
July 6, 2010
by The New Agenda
|H/t to Tina N.
In Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 42-year-old mother of two, was convicted of adultery in 2006. Her confession came after 99 lashes with a whip and she later withdrew it.
Now, she is scheduled to be stoned to death:
CNN reports:
A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.
Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.
“Legally it’s all over,” Ahadi said Sunday. “It’s a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute.”
“That is why we have decided to start a very broad, international public movement. Only that can help.”
Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.
In the U.S.:
In Washington, the State Department has criticized the scheduled stoning, saying it raised serious concerns about human rights violations by the Iranian government.
You can reach out to reach your local congressperson here.
Serious concerns. Wow. They may even have pursed their lips while saying it. Assholes.
This is why it is important to have parity in government, the courts and even religious power structures, which is pretty much all male controlled religions are. This is one example of how off and corrupt male power structures become. I don’t expect these men to care about how others feel but it always amazes me that they apparently don’t fear how God will feel about their savage behaviors, since God is supposedly such a big force in their lives.
Where is Hillary!?
Oh yeah. Tending to her political ambitions.
Where are the Hillary-istas!?
Oh yeah. Still teary-eyed over ‘she coulda been a contender.’
How about you, RD? Still saving the world one blog post at a time, are you?
RD: So is political ambition supposed to be a bad thing in women as you see it? I also often notice the Corporate media doing outrage stories because women politicians give speeches and are making money!! Outrageous!! So I guess making money is another sin when a woman does it. I can’t figure out why the people who repeat these sexist outrage mantras don’t look at themselves on tape and figure out how idiotic they look. No wonder the “news” channels are losing viewers.
@Janis I don’t understand the question. But, below may be the answer.
@Bev: A comment to address and support “[gender] parity [and equality]” twice failed to post here. So, I put it over on the Hillary reverie. I believe it successfully answered your question before you asked. In short, my answer is “a necessary and good thing.” The long of it would involve a discussion of not letting those who have achieved off the hook.
I’ll try to stick around for more.
RD: Well I definitely agree that those who have achieved can not be let off the hook. Just look at media and those who have achieved the monopoly and gate-keeping that is Corporate Media. They should NOT be let off the hook. Their crap about how the garbage they shove unwanted into our homes reflects our culture, Well bull$h!t to that, Corporate media reflects the culture of those who are the only ones who have voice in it and that is primarily rich, white, Jewish, men who have been arrogant and greedy and very poor stewards of media. They absolutely should not be let off the hook. Everyone should be saying to them NO this is not our culture it is your culture, you created it and it is ugly.
But your issue with Hillary I don’t get. Hillary did not create the ugliness you mention, just because she can’t stop other peoples ugly doesn’t make her evil. She goes out on a limb to do what she can.
Keep up bringing out the issues that must be addressed. I on my part, plan to contact my congressmen (yes, they are all men) tomorrow.
This illustrates the task we have ahead. While these things still happen to women anywhere, we are all threatened. This is acceptable under the disguise of “culture” and “religion”.
The Latin American left, and as my Iranian friends here mention, also the American left have embraced the “little dictator” Ahmadinejad, and argue that the women’s movement in Iran is a creation of the CIA. Furthermore (and further shameful) they argue that this is their culture! My Iranian friends assert to me that this is not their culture!
Oppressing and being violent against women is not culture! And it should not be an acceptable part of any religion, just as slavery is not (even if it is mentioned in many religions). We should never accept this argument. It is some men (aided by some women who want to ingratiate themselves with them) who want to benefit from oppressing women.
just wrote to my congressman to publicly speak out against that stoning. and that it is time to wake up for gender injustice, after all he is the assistant to the speaker.
@Bes — I am finished discussing anything with you. Although surrounded by some indisputable phrases, the bulk of your writing is crap (the first invective I have ever typed on this site). Sometimes I wonder who and what you really are. In many ways, I think you are doing a disservice to achieving parity and equality, and to stamping out bigotry of any kind.
The latest affront:
” only ones who have voice in it and that is primarily rich, white, Jewish, men who have been arrogant and greedy”
I am now looking at a few notes I had excerpted from your comments on the recent Sptizer article. In one of my own comments, without naming anyone, I objected to some unspecified content. The reason I saved some of the samples below: I was saving them to write a comment consisting of paraphrases just to see what the reaction would be if they came from a man. They are not necessarily the worst, because I only selected some that could pass as coming from some male idiot. For many reasons, I thought better of concocting a ruse, so I kept my mouth shut. Enough said, here are a few quotes — reading them in context is even more damning:
We have parity … have to admit some women are bad politicians and … can’t solve all ….
Spitzer … doesn’t need to hide under a rock for the rest of his life
she was an idiot for coming out and standing by him….
many of these women can be in the process of moving to better jobs
TV structure is becoming irrelevant. It isn’t even worth fighting about improving it
news headquarters would be fire bombed, blocked by demonstrators or have the windows shot out, forms of communication that men can process as opposed to being talked at
“Enough said, here are a few quotes — reading them in context is even more damning:”
Then GIVE US THE CONTEXT AND GET OUT OF THE WAY — don’t stand here and cherry pick. WTF is with you?
@Janis
It should be no trouble for you to return to the article, “CNN’s Tilt Towards Misogyny,” and see for yourself. Further, in text or context, whether written by Bes or someone else, they most are problematical.
What do you think about what I consider my “latest affront?”
RD, you are plain crazy. And I would love to see you go out of your way to savage a male politician with anything near the obsessiveness that you are bestowing on this one woman.
@Janis
I can not imagine how you can call it obsessive of me to:
condemn the bigotry of “… primarily rich, white, Jewish, men who have been arrogant and greedy…,”
question the fairness of “… she [Silda] was an idiot for coming out and standing by him [Eliot]…,”
wonder about the efficacy of “… have to admit some women are bad politicians…,”
or be horrified by “… would be fire bombed, blocked by demonstrators or have the windows shot out….”
Am I to take it that you agree with statements such as these, and that you believe they further such causes as achieving equality and justice, and ending bigotry of any stripe?
[I check in as soon as possible.]
Regardless of your or my religion, this is probably what Christ was seeing when he challenged, “… cast the first stone.”
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