Stop Stoning!

[polly7]

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_stoning/?cl=654359905&v=6767

Yesterday a massive global outcry stopped an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, from being stoned to death.

But Sakineh still faces execution, and today, fifteen more people await execution by stoning -- people are buried up to their necks and large rocks are hurled at their heads.

Sakineh's brave children's international campaign shows that worldwide condemnation works. Let's turn this family's desperate appeal into a movement that ends stoning for good - sign the petition and send to everyone:


Avaaz is a very good organization that deals in human rights and environmental issues around the world. Sorry if petitions aren't allowed here. I will delete if they're not, or move to an appropriate place if there is one.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. I got stoned last night.

..not in a biblical sense.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Stoning. Is there any punishment more painful or barbaric?

Oh, well, maybe drawing and quartering. I don't think anyone does that anymore.

It just makes me sick to think of it. It really does.

[midnight]

3. Good God. Brutality around the world just continues on.

[johnaries]

4. It's even worse if a woman is a virgin.

In Iran it's illegal to execute a virgin. So if a virgin has been sentenced to execution, the night before the stoning they will marry her to one of the guards who then rapes her.

[tkmorris]

5. I have never heard of a woman being stoned that was a virgin

Usually the "crime" they get convicted of involves sex of some kind. Adultery, etc. You have a link? Something verifiable?

[jberryhill]

8. How many stoned women have you heard about?

Since Iranians will stone a rape victim for being raped, there's really not much difference is there?

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/10-26g-04.asp

[WinkyDink]

10. It is not the point you asserted.

[jberryhill]

6. Hey, what people do on their own time is none of your... Oh, never mind /nt

[SunnySong]

7. You know they are going to legalize stoning in California I hear the Naacp is behind it....

Hold on what????


They do what???


With rocks???


For a little OPP????


Okay all those counties not a 14th century hellhole raise your hand... not so fast Iran.

[WinkyDink]

9. No. WOMEN are buried up to their necks; men to their waists. If one can wriggle free, they are

spared.
Women cannot wriggle free.
But their modesty is preserved.

THIS IS SO EVIL, THE MIND REELS AND RENDERS ONE SPEECHLESS IN HORROR.

That the leader can come to our shores and speak to the U.N.

[jberryhill]

11. The UN is not "ours"

Any leader or diplomat can go there. It's the deal we made.

It's like agreeing the cub scout pack can meet in your basement. Once you do that, you'll have to let in that really weird kid from up the street who wears those funny pants.

[polly7]

12. Over 60,000 new signature overnight! :))))) nt.