Samira was a child bride married at 15 and a victim of domestic violence. She had two young children, one a new-born baby, when she was arrested and had not seen her children in ten years. She saw them for the first and last time when they came to the prison to say goodbye.

At the time of writing, her execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

Rights group calls for Ali Khamenei and other leaders of the Islamic Republic to be held accountable for this crime.

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        From the few things I know about her, I feel I wouldn’t deny her entry. Though I would need to check more information before giving a definite answer.

        From my point of view she’s a victim of Islam, not a willing participant.

    • @Gh05t@beehaw.org
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      What about the nice people actually attempting to find a better life and a way out of the tyranny and oppression?

      • TheEntity
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        So ex-muslims? Nothing against them as far as I’m concerned.

        • @Gh05t@beehaw.org
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          I’m sure she was Muslim till the very last cause I’d sure as hell find religion when I’m facing the end. I’d like to think I’d remain rational but it’s daunting AF. But she’s not one of the bad ones is she?

          • @Gh05t@beehaw.org
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            Also by that logic and if as you say you feel Islam is as whacked as Christianity you should just ban religious people. While being more exclusive I could get on board with that doctrine.

          • TheEntity
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            If she still considered herself a Muslim, then what happened to her was perfectly in line with her claimed worldview. She can only ever see herself as a victim by rejecting her religion. She probably wasn’t conscious of it but at this point I’d say she was already an ex-muslim, it’s a matter of a therapist making her aware of it (assuming she’d be rescued in time!).

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              I would propose that perhaps linking religion with the religious leadership is linking Christianity with “the church”. And using that logic all Christians condone pedaphilia which isn’t the case. Islam the religion isn’t about cruelty anymore than Christianity is about white supremacy.

              • TheEntity
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                Yes, linking the religious leadership of the inherently strongly hierarchical belief systems with these belief systems sounds very reasonable to me.
                I have an impression we agree on the reasoning, just not on the details and the conclusions from these details. At this point we’re arguing the semantics of whether the religious people rejecting their religious leadership still belong to the same religion or rather they invented their own religion distinct from the original one. In other words, whether the leadership is an inherent part of their religion.
                Do I have that right that apart from the above we’re pretty much on the same page?

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                  I think the trouble with the conclusion you’re drawing is that it enables one to make sweeping statements about Muslims on the whole while maintaining plausible deniability in claiming that they’re only referring to “the bad ones.” In other words, sort of an inverse “No True Scotsman” fallacy.

                  Furthermore, I would wager that most people you’re referring to as “ex-Muslim” would still very much consider themselves to be Muslim, and even though you’re explicitly not addressing them in your claims, it’s not a huge leap that someone acting in worse faith would use your rationale as an excuse to generalize the entire demographic (including the so-called “ex-Muslims”).

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        I welcome those! After a thorough process checking that the nice people are indeed nice. For example answering “yes” to the question “should Sharia be above this country’s law” is an immediate disqualifier. As is thinking god is above law.

        • alyaza [they/she]M
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          No, it’s not the same thing. When most Christians, or governments in countries with majority Christian population, hear about priests raping kids, they are disgusted by it and are 100% ok with punishing the offender.

          ignoring that this is severely debatable, “which religion is more fine with sexual abuse” is an embarrassing pissing contest to have and one that we’re not interested in having on this website.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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          Sounds like you’ve never been to the American South, or to Rural Latin America, or to Poland, or to Hungary, or to Russia, or…

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        You should hear me talk about priests then! I rarely call them anything else than child rapists (I use a word that’s a little harsher than that, though I’m not sure if there’s an English equivalent).

        Anyway, I’m welcoming of all the women who are trying to escape the Islam hell, I’m welcoming of all the small kids. Who I don’t welcome at all are the people who want to make Europe another Islam shithole. The logic of escaping to a nicer place and then trying really hard to make it as shitty as the place you escaped from is beyond me.

        Basically, if you believe your psycho god is above law, I don’t want you here. If you think that women are lesser than men, I don’t want you here.

        I don’t think I’m being unreasonable, if you feel I am, feel free to discuss further.

          • Rikudou_SageA
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            I don’t think all Muslims want to do that. I think that significant portion of them do and we should be aware of that.

            I don’t understand how you think that being cautious is messed up. The messed up thing is what this article talks about. Or the other article I read today about little girls being done with their education, because they’ve reached the 6th grade. That’s what’s messed up.

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      See, the thing about religion, that no religious person wants to come to terms with, is that no religion is a monolith. What does that mean?

      Even if you claim to be a fully practicing Christian, Muslim, Hindi, etc, there will always be descrepencies. Furthermore, no one believes exactly the same thing as someone else. The nature and limitations of the human mind does not permit it, so thinking that if you identify with a religion that suddenly your behaviour is dictated by dogma is nonsensical.

      This also means that Christians today are not responsible for the crusades or the persecution as well as eradication of European pagans, and that Islam is not to blame for what’s going on in Iran, largely because they were irrelevant to the actual goals, which was for certain people to gain more power and wealth.

      The Iranian government doesn’t give a shit about the 5 columns of Islam. Not even close. But they absolutely love having morals police, executions and an authoritarian system that seeks to subjugate and suppress any kind of democratic movement.

      The Iranian regime knows the Iranian people, and if they could they would turn liberal democracy in a heartbeat, and they are still mostly Muslim. That’s why the boot has to stomp and fists have to bang on doors, like all the time.

      I think people easily forget how fucked you can be if the state has so much power they can effectively curb any dissent. At that point the religion used just becomes a nice decorative mask to put on, both to keep power, but also to keep using fear via “us vs them”. This is also signified by the secular Muslim empires.

      Just a little bit of history is enough to dispell all fears about religion and to squarely focus on corruption and authoritarianism instead, which is where our focus should be - and that’s coming from an atheist.

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        Just a little bit of history is enough to dispell all fears about religion

        Hard disagree. I don’t think there’s a single other thing that was the cause of so many deaths as religion was. Religion is the cancer of society. Not the only one but definitely one of the top 3.

        Look what Christians are doing in US or Poland. Look what Muslims are doing anywhere they’re in power. Sure, the religion is not the driving force, it’s the corruption. But religion is used to control them and no one is more dangerous than someone who thinks their god wants them to do whatever atrocity they are about to do.

    • @tardigrada@beehaw.orgOP
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      It’s not because we hate them for their religion (for the saner part of Europeans it’s the same bullshit as Christianity)

      Yes, I am firmly convinced that religion (and ideology) is used as a pretext for suppresssing people. One of Iran’s major partner countries is China, for example, but Iran says nothing about Beijing’s oppression of the Muslim Uyghur minority in China. They don’t care.

      It’s all about power, and we see similar things all around the globe across all cultures and ages, including here in Europe.

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        I absolutely don’t plan to. I don’t want them in my country because they want to make every other country look the same as their shitholes with their sharia “law”. You can disagree, that’s fine by me, but no, I won’t fuck off. I think I’m presenting my opinion in a respectful manner to all the people in the thread. It’s not my problem that you dislike my opinion.

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      I don’t understand… she has the right in islamic law to ask for divorce which she would have been granted by a judge seeing the abuse.

      I think it is not possible in Christian law for a woman to ask for divorce except in the case of adultry, but Islamic law is clear about cases where the husband is abusive or doesn’t take his responsibilities. I just don’t get how people still consider Iran as a country that upholds Islamic law, unless they don’t know said law.

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        I think it is not possible in Christian law for a woman to ask for divorce except in the case of adultry

        In sane countries, women can ask for divorce for more or less any reason they feel. Also, in sane countries, religious law isn’t the law of the land.

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        Oh, which part of Islam/Christian law are we talking about? You know that everyone likes to pick the parts they agree with, right? So, much simpler is to say “fuck your religion, we have actual law here”.

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      Yes cause all Muslims are the same as the Iranian regime /s.

      Fuck of with the blatant racism/xenophobia.