Stop
them!
By:
Koorosh Afshar
The
mullahs of the Islamic Republic have, at several times, shown their thirst
for carnage in the past 25 years of ruling over
Iran
. They have a long
history of plotting suicide attacks and waging wars internationally and
silencing any opposing voice domestically. Having brutalized the Iranian
nation all throughout these years, having kept most of the people under
the poverty line, one shouldn’t be astonished on how these “men of
Allah” have had absolutely no problem finding recruits and sending poor
souls after the so-called promised paradise through shedding the blood of
other humans. If you are an Iranian, it wouldn’t be very strange for you
to have at least one dear and near lost at the bloody hands of these
shopkeepers of religion. The infamousness of the Shiite clerics of
Iran
is not a new story to
be told over again, as they are already known to the world as the “bad
guys”.
The
reason for writing this article is, however, not retelling the same old
story, but an untold one, I am sure you haven’t heard yet.
Almost
a month ago the Supreme leader, Ayattollah Ali Khameneh’ee’s appointed
judge in the province of “Mazandaran”, in the South of the
Caspian sea
, sentenced “Atefeh
Rajabi” a 16-year-old girl to death for committing adultery. The poor
girl, deprived of even the very basic motherly love, was hanged in the
public before the dismayed eyes of a people who have long forgotten that
they were no more living than “Atefeh” was now. Just before she was
hanged, “Atefeh” had willed everything she possessed to the poor girls
like herself. A short time later, it was revealed that the Islamic judge
and a few of his men had raped this little girl before hanging her.
The
tragedy of “Atefeh” was still inflicting its heavy and painful burden
on the Iranians’ conscience that a report came out proclaiming that
another girl, 13-year-old “Zheela”, was sentenced to “stoning to
death” by another Islamic judge in the city of “Marivan”, Western
Iran. This poor child is sentenced to death because she has been
impregnated by her 15-year-old brother.
I
am deeply astounded by the level of some of your politicians’ credulity
speaking of peace and a “better tomorrow” while they see that Islamic
fundamentalism is literally marring the fresh minds of future parents of
our world. Can’t they see what is happening to “Zheela”? Couldn’t
they see what happened in “Beslan”? Can’t they see us? Having been
brought up in an “Islamiorated” society where seeing coffins and wild
mobs in our streets was an everyday experience I don’t really know how
many years should pass before we will be able to gain our mental health
back.
If
the world cannot save little “Zheela” from these brutal Islamic
militants, then how could your politicians speak of disarming them from
their nuclear weapons?
Saving
her is undoubtedly the right thing to do.
Let
us not forget that “It may not always be easy, convenient, or
politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right
thing to do - Always.”
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Koorosh Afshar is a pseudonym for a university student in
Tehran
, his name has been
changed for his protection.
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