
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Why should Muslims in Muslim countries fear blood, death and mutilation when it is daily visual occurrence?
To grow up in a country where humans are mistreated in public by the government is to conclude that mistreating humans is legitimate. These kinds of horrific lessons are taught every day in Muslim nations where human existence is cheap.
For instance, according to Iran Focus, on December 28 two Iranians were hung in public in Ahwax. This event was made official in the country’s state news agency.
While children and adults watched, “two men, identified only by their fist names as Naeem-Abdollah and Jaleel, were accused of being ‘mohareb,’” that is, persons who “’waged war on God.’”
The two men were led to the city square. There the nooses were tied around their necks. There the neighbors were witness to two human beings hanging from ropes. This is legitimate, according to the country’s judiciary.
The press release did not specify how these two mortals “’waged war on God.’” God, of course, in Iran, is defined as the Koran’s Allah. There are many sentences in the Koran stipulating how one can bring down the wrath of Allah, thus suffering death penalty by hanging or other means. Presumably, these two Iranians did just that so as to bring their lives to an end at the hanging post.
The media simply explained: “In the past, Iran’s judiciary has executed political opponents of the Islamic Republic on the charge of being a mohareb. The two men were hanged at dawn in one of the city’s main squares.”
The only clue that outsiders might get for the “reason” for the hangings is that perchance the two men contested something governmental. The press did give this data: “Ahwaz, provincial capital of Khuzistan, is home to Iran’s ethnic Arab population and has been a hotbed of anti-government demonstrations. Throughout the months of April and July, the city was the scene of large-scale clashes between people and government forces.”
Could it be that these two who met their end at the officials’ dictate were demonstrators against Iranian evils? Could they have been involved in “anti-government demonstrations?” Could they have been defenders of public liberties?
It is known that there is a growing youth movement within Iran that contests the killing cultic theocracy there. These youths, often students, have formed organizations outside the country in order to bring attention to the Iranian officials’ atrocities against Iranians.
One such organization is the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran. Visit http://www.daneshjoo.org/
Whatever the definition of “war on God,” two Iranians were put to death before the waiting public at early dawn.
Further, according to Iran Focus, in the southern town of Jahrom, Iranian officials “flogged three men in public.” This was reported by the state-owned daily.
These were young males who remained unnamed in the media release. However, the watching public could see clearly what was leveled against them because of their “drinking” and “unruly behavior,” stated the daily Etemaad.
With that, the men were flogged 300 times.
Neighbors watched in the town’s Velayat Square as judiciary officials looked on to make sure the 300 count was complete.
Thus is life in Iran.
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