An Eye for an Eye February 19, 2009
Posted by Anita in God is Imaginary, Humanism, Islam, Rational Thinkers, Religion and Culture.Tags: Acid Attack, Ameneh Bahrami, Islamic Law, Majid Movahedi, Sharia Law
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Ameneh Bahrami before
Ameneh Bahrami now
Majid Movahedi
A 31-year-old Iranian woman has demanded justice by asking the courts to apply Islamic law and blind the man who blinded and disfigured her in an acid attack.
Ameneh Bahrami claims she isn’t seeking revenge; she only wants to prevent Majid Movahedi from ever doing it again.
Mr. Movahedi confessed to the crime and was convicted in 2005.
Ms. Bahrami’s lawyer, Ali Sarrafi, says Mr. Movahedi has never shown any remorse and claims he blinded the young woman because he loved her.
An Iranian court has sentenced Mr. Movahedi to be blinded with drops of acid in each eye, and his appeal has been rejected.
I never thought I’d be condoning Islamic law, but in this case, I have to admit the punishment fits the crime.
Do you agree?
Read the entire article here.
No, I don’t think so.
I can’t pinpoint, but there is something wrong in having that kind of law.
However, I agree that such crimes call for severe punishment.
Agree? No. The reason is because it will only add suffering. That doesn’t help anyone.
The entire point to the punishment is to deter another man from harming a woman with a acid attack. In a way, he is a martyer.
Yes, it is equal justice. A man blinds someone and is set free will encourage more lunatics to do such horrible act, specially this man handicapped (blinded) an innocent woman, does he also have a right to see things which that woman wouldn’t be able?
He won’t see what she saw, or would have seen if she wasn’t blinded. Everyone sees something different. He did it because he wasn’t connected to our commonality, he wasn’t aware how to be kind. That’s his place. Ours is to have that connectivity. It isn’t to deliver a poor idea of justice. Violence begets violence. This isn’t just a fancy slogan – it has merit.