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murdoch (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:53 PM Original message |
Best example of complete media invention - Stoning in Iran for adultery |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is DU--please link to information on the murder charge. |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is news to me too. Although I wonder if it would matter. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. A link? I have read extensively about this and have never heard of this |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I smell Iran covering it's ass; here's a story from the LA Times; note the wording in this |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. VERY interesting |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Acorn. Climategate. Swift boaters WMD.. heads on poles in the Mexican desert. etc. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. LOVE your username, btw |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. ... |
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left coaster (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. I had not heard about any murder, but did find this... |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. With ZERO evidence |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
11. "her case was re-opened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband." |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran |
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Meldread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yes, because we know Iran is a bastion of human rights. |
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Prometheus Bound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Those two were hanged for gang-raping a young boy, not for being gay. |
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Meldread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Bullshit. |
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Prometheus Bound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Iranian teens were hanged for rape, not gay sex, reports Human Rights Watch |
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Meldread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. You should educate yourself. |
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Prometheus Bound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Whom should I believe? You or Human Rights Watch? |
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Meldread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:08 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. You're free to believe whatever you'd like to believe - and be as wrong as you'd like. |
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Prometheus Bound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:55 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I defended nothing. I only pointed out your error... |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. Oddly, the "murder conviction" didn't hit the news until the outrage over the impending lapidation |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Actually, there wasn't a murder conviction, she was acquitted. |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Ya, I know - thats why I put it in quotes. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Exactly. And, from my excerpt above, how utterly CONVEEEENIENT that the |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Have to agree. Anyone who defends this in the face of evidence to the contrary |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. Actually, Sir, It is Your Head-Line That Is A Complete Invention.... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
21. STONING IS BARBARIC. And Iran DOES stone women for adultery. |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
24. Oh please. The Chavez defenders are bad enough. |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:59 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. You Must Not Have Been Paying Attention, Sir |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:43 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Bingo! |
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Meldread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Agreed. |
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SunnySong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Wait till you see the Mugabe isn't all that bad crowd... nt |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
26. So, 4hrs and 25 responses later... |
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SunnySong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. The Iranian government is evil... simply as that their leadership is in many ways barbaric. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. No but posting sources is required. Even school children in Iran do this..op not so much(nt) |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. Ummmmm |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
36. But she wan't convicted of murdering her husband, but her lovers were. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
38. Kicking for SOME response from the OP. |
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