Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

along with a year in jail for starring in an Australian film critical of Iranian society. She was arrested one day and sentenced the next...what a joke! Again, hopefully global outcry will have an effect but this is but another example of the barbarity of Iranian Islam.

Why would any woman support Islam willingly with this kind of truly draconian "justice" being dealt out? This should be the number one priority of the women's advocacy group - bringing this to light.

You hit it right on the head. It absolutely is barbarism. Disgusting.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Why would any woman support Islam willingly with this kind of truly draconian "justice" being dealt out? This should be the number one priority of the women's advocacy group - bringing this to light.

You hit it right on the head. It absolutely is barbarism. Disgusting.

why do women willingly support most religions? is it support, or are they hoping to change it? all religions have their 'good' side, but they all have a dark side as well. religion has a tendency to try to put women in their place. now, not all still have the sheer violence you see in the extreme forms of islam, but it preaches inequality all the same.
there are still parts of india where the widow is thrown, alive, onto her late husbands funeral pyre. it's tradition you see. she's just one more of his possessions that needs to travel to the other side with him...
catholics-no women need apply. baptists-women must submit to their husbands. oh, teaching bible school? nope, bible says only men can do that, you're fired.
etc, etc, etc

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

why do women willingly support most religions? is it support, or are they hoping to change it? all religions have their 'good' side, but they all have a dark side as well. religion has a tendency to try to put women in their place. now, not all still have the sheer violence you see in the extreme forms of islam, but it preaches inequality all the same.
there are still parts of india where the widow is thrown, alive, onto her late husbands funeral pyre. it's tradition you see. she's just one more of his possessions that needs to travel to the other side with him...
catholics-no women need apply. baptists-women must submit to their husbands. oh, teaching bible school? nope, bible says only men can do that, you're fired.
etc, etc, etc

Yeah I get that. Good points. I never read that as literally as others though - I mean "submit to your husband" I always read more along the lines that when a decision needs to be made, in order to avoid deadlock, after discussion, one party should be able to make that decision. And that party should absolutely be taking the other's input seriously into account. It could the reverse where the wife is the more effective decision maker. Or, as many couples do, there is a loose division of responsibility based on expertise.

Back to the point - if one gets 90 lashes for being critical or disagreeing with the government, where is the threshold for capital punishment? Jaywalking? They needn't even specify it as such - how many lashes would be fatal? 300? 400?