The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.

In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.

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Unfortunately the Taleban, continue to torment, torture, rape, and murder, the women of Afghanistan. We all know we cannot bring all Afghan females to the USA, without creating problems.

What is happening in Iran, is due to old religious cultures, who have failed to climb from the primordial soup of the Third World.

Iraq, was a better target, because they were more civilized and educated. Remove Saddam, and his regime, then deal with the people, was a good idea, but the US, failed to plan for the Iraqi military's second option of, shedding their uniforms, during the invasion, and blending into the population, only to emerge as an insurgency.

It is easy to win the war,
but not so easy to win the peace.

So far, into this response, I have yet to offer an answer or solution to the issue, over the hanging of the female victim of, an attempted rape, who killed, in defense of a violent crime.

The culture she, lived in was one of secular rule. Here in the USA, we believe in the separation of church and state. I said, earlier, that we (the USA) cannot bring all Afghan females to the USA, without creating problems.
It is not within the capacity of the USA, to accommodate all of the suffering people. It is NOT the goal of the USA, to bring all the victims, of the world to the USA. It is the goal of the USA to export Democracy, Liberty, Freedom, our constitution, to those, willing to fight for their own freedoms, democracy, and liberty.

But, freedom, is not free. Freedom cannot be a gift. Freedom, must be won. The cost of freedom, is the blood of those who want it for their country. Fight against the corrupt governing bodies, churches, rulers, etc., who subject you to such rule, and elect leaders, whom you will follow.

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall be the goal of the people.

Deserters don't win wars. Stay in the fight. Go yourself, and fight the battles, send the aged, your spouse, or your child, if you must, but pay the price, so your country can live free.

This stuff is just so .... precious.
"It is easy to win the war,
but not so easy to win the peace"
But I thought you knew that war *was* peace.
You guys crack me up with your dick tripping attempts to make nice with
the horror of your own creation.
.

File this under the "beauty and all inclusive peacefulness of islam".

Happens everyday.

Now is the time when our friends on the left will attempt to blame this islmic cultural more on the CIA and/or Jews.

And now that Iran is in the cross hairs of the lunatic neocons we will no doubt be brought stories that show just how BENEFICIAL to the women of Iran an armed attack and invasion will be. How the poor oppressed citizens of Iran will be throwing flowers at the feet of their new monitors. After the bodies are pulled from the rubble and the water power and other systems that have been bombed, are rebuilt by Haliburton.

Maybe. Maybe not.

I think the point of the story is to illustrate the basic savagery of a large segment of the islamic culture.

No kidding.
Who would have even thought that this thread was another 'minute of hate' hoisted by the usual parties?
No, not me.

Less than a minute of hate, these threads, I think, serve to illuminate certain strengths of the left. Those being hypocrisy and denial.

While falling all over themselves attacking the nonsense and silly theories of the US Christian Right they steadfastly deny and/or actually support the culture of islam and it's inherent and collossal assault on virtually every human right, powered by indoctrinated, systematic and well organized murder campaigns.

That the left continues to try and deny these aspects of islam while comdemning a bunch of US Nuts who belive in "intelligent design" is very telling.

Personally, I'd rather have my kid have to endure a schoolboard battle with some jesus freaks than have their teacher beheaded for teaching a girl. But's that's just me.

You may recall, there were two Christians, both female, who were on trial in Afghanistan, for trying to conver Muslims. This was after 9/11, and at the begining of the war with the Taleban, in the effort to get Ussama bin laden, the Commander in Chief of the Taleban.

The two Christians were freed.

The US recently negotiated for and won the freedom of a woman, with a child. She was scheduled for a public stoning. I am not familiar with the practice, but it seems that only men are qualified to throw stones.

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Muslims in Canada wanted to practice Shia Laws.