Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Stoning commuted to hanging

Not exactly a triumph for human dignity and women's rights:

"BERLIN—An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday, a human rights group said."

5 comments:

Michael Harkov said...

And yet back in April the United Nations elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing it a four year seat.

I'm so glad you Liberals take the rejection of Canada's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council seriously. I guess SOMEONE has to.

ridenrain said...

Yeah.. but somehow Harper is the embarrassment in the UN? Good riddance I say. Let's see how much help Haiti gets from Poland.

Anonymous said...

Only the radical right could completely disregard the relevance of the UN.

Michael Harkov said...

So Nonny.....no mention of the fact of the UN's rank hypocrisy that it allowed Iran, an known abuser of women who still uses STONING to PUNISH them, to join and remain part of it's Commission on the Status of Women.

Only the radical left could completley disregard the hypocrisy of the UN.

ridenrain said...

Only a complete ideolog would ignore the failure of the UN.
These are the same blowhards who protested Canada walking away from Durban-II, until the hate-fest was made public. Most Canadians were proud we took a stand against such hate speech.
I think the Liberals were more concerned with losing their free vacation junkets than actually representing Canada.