Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die

[Ambiorix]

Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die
And their husbands and fathers, too. Iranian Depopulation Alert from AKI (thanks to Twostellas):

Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.

"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.

Execution of woman who don't wear a veil?

[Sarah]

Thats crazy, I hope he has a rotten life. Actually, i hope that he discovers his own daughter of wife doesn't wear it and kills himself.

women without veils must die
And their husbands and fathers

In Basra, men are going around painting warnings on the walls, threatening to kill any woman who wears a trace of make up or tries to look nice.

[Ambiorix]

Thats crazy, I hope he has a rotten life. Actually, i hope that he discovers his own daughter of wife doesn't wear it and kills himself.

women without veils must die
And their husbands and fathers

In Basra, men are going around painting warnings on the walls, threatening to kill any woman who wears a trace of make up or tries to look nice.

Good ol' Basra.... where are the times???

[Sarah]

Thats crazy, I hope he has a rotten life. Actually, i hope that he discovers his own daughter of wife doesn't wear it and kills himself.

women without veils must die
And their husbands and fathers

In Basra, men are going around painting warnings on the walls, threatening to kill any woman who wears a trace of make up or tries to look nice.

Good ol' Basra.... where are the times???

Britain has pulled out of Basra now, and things are starting to get worse. Once the Iraqis finally gain the control they wanted, they do what they want. Being brutal.

"All the women fell foul of the unwritten rules of the new Basra – they dressed wrongly, they left the home to work, or perhaps they were merely rumoured to have a boyfriend.

Forty-eight manila files have been opened in the past six months. Not one case has been solved. The bare number cannot begin to conjure the horror of these deaths at the hands of Islamic extremists who have the port city in a tightening grip of fear.

In one folder at the Basra police station, the young woman in the autopsy photograph seems to be straining upward in agony, her eyes popping in terror. She is “female unknown identity, found in Hayer Hussein neighbourhood, behind the electric station. 24/8/2007”.


In another, a woman’s nose has been crushed. Trails of blood run from her closed right eye like lines of tears. She is “female unknown identity, found in Al-Mishraq al-Jaid neighbourhood, behind the car dealer. 7/11/2007”.

Their autopsies revealed painful deaths. One woman found in “a red dress” had a 9mm bullet wound in her left hand, three in her right hand, three in her right upper arm, and three in her back. Two of the women were beheaded, one with a saw.

Residents say police have not been investigating. “Everyone knows the militias are doing this, but the police live in fear of them. We all do,” said a middle-aged businessman who was too afraid to give his name.

The walls of Basra would be a good place to start looking for the killers. One graffito on a wall bordering the main Al-Dijari road reads: “We warn all women of Basra, especially those who are not wearing abbaya [a long, loose black cloak worn over everyday clothes], that we will kill you.” It is signed in the name of an offshoot of the Mahdi Army, the strongest militia in Basra.

It is not just women who live in fear. Professionals such as engineers, doctors and scientists have been dragged from their homes and murdered. "

[Ambiorix]

Thats crazy, I hope he has a rotten life. Actually, i hope that he discovers his own daughter of wife doesn't wear it and kills himself.

women without veils must die
And their husbands and fathers

In Basra, men are going around painting warnings on the walls, threatening to kill any woman who wears a trace of make up or tries to look nice.

Good ol' Basra.... where are the times???

Britain has pulled out of Basra now, and things are starting to get worse. Once the Iraqis finally gain the control they wanted, they do what they want. Being brutal.

"All the women fell foul of the unwritten rules of the new Basra – they dressed wrongly, they left the home to work, or perhaps they were merely rumoured to have a boyfriend.

Forty-eight manila files have been opened in the past six months. Not one case has been solved. The bare number cannot begin to conjure the horror of these deaths at the hands of Islamic extremists who have the port city in a tightening grip of fear.

In one folder at the Basra police station, the young woman in the autopsy photograph seems to be straining upward in agony, her eyes popping in terror. She is “female unknown identity, found in Hayer Hussein neighbourhood, behind the electric station. 24/8/2007”.


In another, a woman’s nose has been crushed. Trails of blood run from her closed right eye like lines of tears. She is “female unknown identity, found in Al-Mishraq al-Jaid neighbourhood, behind the car dealer. 7/11/2007”.

Their autopsies revealed painful deaths. One woman found in “a red dress” had a 9mm bullet wound in her left hand, three in her right hand, three in her right upper arm, and three in her back. Two of the women were beheaded, one with a saw.

Residents say police have not been investigating. “Everyone knows the militias are doing this, but the police live in fear of them. We all do,” said a middle-aged businessman who was too afraid to give his name.

The walls of Basra would be a good place to start looking for the killers. One graffito on a wall bordering the main Al-Dijari road reads: “We warn all women of Basra, especially those who are not wearing abbaya [a long, loose black cloak worn over everyday clothes], that we will kill you.” It is signed in the name of an offshoot of the Mahdi Army, the strongest militia in Basra.

It is not just women who live in fear. Professionals such as engineers, doctors and scientists have been dragged from their homes and murdered. "

They are cursed for doing this.

[Dr. Dan]

let them kill each other...we shoudln't be there in the first place.

[Sarah]

let them kill each other...we shoudln't be there in the first place.

What so they can go in, and then slip back out after a lot of trouble has begun and simply say "we shouldn't have been there in the first place."?

At the end of the day THEY are the ones killing each other, and yes they are the only ones to blame. However what was the point of going into Iraq, if they aren't even going to make a good job out of it whilst they're there?!

It is a humiliation.

[jerry1800]

giving "democracy" to Arabs and now we have the result

[Ambiorix]

giving "democracy" to Arabs and now we have the result

You need a middle -class for a democracy.
there wasn't any.
the country was ok in the 70ties before the war with Iran.

[kellymaureen]

Many soldiers, including my brother, really thought they could make a difference, that the people there WANTED freedom and change.  It turns out they are more than happy to live like uncivilized beasts, no more of our servicemen should lose their lives, thats it, over and done, bring our guys home and let the savages in iraq all kill each other.  We cant force civility on the uncivilized, lesson learned. 
One other note, if Americans were the "devil" that the islamic world likes to label us as, we COULD have very easily turned iraq into a smoldering pile of crap instead of losing so many of our men while trying to protect "innocent civilians".