Not only does its President advocate the destruction of an entire country and gets into ridiculous conspiracy theories even fucking Al-Qaeda has attacked, it now plans the judicial murder of a man just for his religious beliefs. Hopefully the judges are cowed enough by international pressure to commute his sentence and maybe even free him.
Is it judicial murder when you don’t agree with the death penalty, and righteous justice when you do? Just checking. (Not, of course, that I agree with the Iranians in this instance.)
I think Iran’s tyrannical conduct and contempt for religious freedom is heinous, and that it’s ridiculous to suggest any kind of moral equivalence between capital punishment for apostasy and capital punishment for murder.
However, it’s also ridiculous to suggest that US capital punishment sentencing laws have any kind of objective logic or justification. Making certain kinds of murder a capital crime, while permitting lesser sentences for other kinds of murder and for various heinous but non-fatal crimes, is a fundamentally arbitrary decision.
Little Curtis is a sad, sick freak, who loves nothing better than masturbating over the deaths of others. I wonder if we’re watching the growing up of American’s Anders Behring Breivik?
What Iran is doing is disgusting. What Curtis is doing is also disgusting, for different reasons.
True. But Qin has advocated treason being a capital crime. And there’s only a thin line between treason and heresy. If Youcef Nadarkhani was opposing Iran’s political system rather than its state religion, would Qin be arguing that the Iranian government was justified in killing him?
You’re an idiot, honestly. What are you, like three? Who are you trying to impress with this bullshit? News at 11: Iranian leadership = Islamic fundamentalist fucktards. What exactly is the purpose of this thread?
I guess Iran attacked another country for not having weapons of mass destruction. Then iran tortured prisoners and got into secret renditions. Iran must be a bad place. We should deal harshly with a country like that.
Naw, they cool. They just torture prisoners, execute homosexuals (even though there aren’t any in Iran), fund terrorist organizations, imprison hikers for several years, put down protests with the strongest possible means and stuff like that. They are really cute and cuddly…
I do not rejoice at death even those of workers of iniquity-however I am glad justice is done and those people cannot harm others anymore
Oh great. Since I hate Bin Laden, Al-Awaki, and Russell I’m somehow on the way to become a mass murderer who shot dozens of teenagers at a summer camp
In what way?
People regularly pit Bachmann and Ahamadinejad although 99% of the board thinks they’re idiots/nuts/whatnot. I’m not trying to impress anyone. :rolleyes:
You have, as I recall, said you support execution as a punishment for treason. If Nadarkhani was accused of political opposition to the Iranian government rather than religious opposition, and he was convicted of treason, would you agree that he should be executed?
Just so this isn’t a “gotcha”, I’ll add that Islam is the official state religion of Iran and their government is theocratic to a large extent. So by Iranian law, opposition to the state religion is equivalent to opposition to the government.
This has to be one of the most moronic statements I’ve seen on this site yet.
I’ll assume you know nothing of Iran’s treatment of various religious minorities, nor the torture and murders it dishes out at its own citizens.
I’ll assume for that the words Bahai and Basij mean nothing to you and that you have no idea what the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice refers to and please don’t run to google or wikipedia to try and pretend you have the slightest idea what I’m talking about.
Just go back to life in your mother’s basement and go back to trolling on the internet if you feel like it, but don’t ever pretend you actually know something about Iran until you’ve actually read something on the subject.
The US doesn’t execute people for crimes other than murder, at least not for several decades and it’s now prohibited from doing so by the Supreme Court.
Iran by contrast, executes hundreds of people every year, most of whom aren’t murderers, but are merely drug dealers or drug smugglers.
I may be a bleeding heart liberal, but this cleric we blew up in Yemen should have been tried here and then tossed in jail if he was found guilty. I fucking hate what this country has become with Guantanamo bay and waterboardings.
We’re supposed to be BETTER. We try the accused in courts here and not in random prisons in third world countries.