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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:06 am    Post subject: Mullahs to Execute Three More Children Reply with quote

Mullahs to Execute Three More Children


September 08, 2004
Radio Farda
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Source: http://radiofarda.com/en_news/2004/9/7/fc975775-9d80-436d-ae6b-69f6e1847095.html#fc975775-9d80-436d-ae6b-69f6e1847095


Following the execution of Atefeh, a 16 year old girl in the northern city
of Neka in Iran, who was accused of having had an extramarital sexual
affair, the legal experts are now worried about the faith of three young
people who are condemned to death by the Islamic courts.

Under international pressure the Judiciary has now announced that they are
waiting for three young boys to reach the age of 18 before they are
executed. The authorities have not revealed what the boys are convicted
of.

Under Islamic Law children are exempt from judicial punishment but the
same legal system considers girls at the age of 10 and boys at 16 as
adults and punishable.

Although in the past two years the IRI have not carried out some of the
court verdicts which contravened the international law of Human Rights,
but at the same time no amendments have been made to the Islamic legal
system in these respects.

ISNA, the student's news agency in Iran says they received letters which
warns them the boys have just turned 18 and if the international public
opinion remains silent they will have the same faith as Atefeh, the 16
year old girl from Neka.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Absolutely disgusting.

Cyrus, thanks for posting that very informative background info on Neka. Also, please check your PM ... did you get my "present" OK? Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:52 am    Post subject: New facts regarding a 16 year old girl Reply with quote

Dear Fellow ActivistChat Members,
If you have free time please consider to translate new facts regarding a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefe to English and submit it here.
Many Thanks,
Cyrus




Source = http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387

۲ افسر نيروی انتظامی دايره مفاسد اجتماعی شهرستان نکا با عاطفه رابطه داشتند

پيک ايران : گزارشهائی که امروز در سايت "زنان ايران" و ايسنا در رابطه با اعدام عاطفه دختر 16 ساله اهل نکا منتشر شد درستی جزء به جزء خبر پيک ايران به اثبات رسيد. اکنون نکات ديگری از اين ماجرا که جزئی از صدها واقعه کم و بيش مشابه است را بار ديگر منتشر ميکنيم. اين گزارش برای اولين در ۱۳ / شهريور / ۱۳۸۳ برابر با سوم سپتامبر 2004 در پيک ايران منتشر شد.

پيک ايران : در پی اعدام ، عاطفه ، دختر ۱۶ ساله در شهرستان نکا در استان مازندران که دليل آن "اعمال منافی عفت عمومي" اعلام شده بود ، حقايق بيشتری در خصوص اين عمل خشم برانگيز آشکار ميشود که بخشهائی از آن در اينجا آورده ميشود.

از آنجا که خانواده عاطفه از نظر اقتصادی در وضعيت بسيار بدی به سر ميبرده و اين دختر نوجوان نيز دچار اختلالات روحی و روانی بوده زمينه ای برای سو استفاده جنسی از وی بوجود آمده بود ( البته در حکومت جمهوری اسلامی اين نوع سو استفاده از چنين شرايطی عادی بنظر ميرسد) . با توجه به شرايط فوق الذکر عاطفه، تعدادی از پرسنل نيروی انتظامی با توجه به دانستن شرايط زندگی وی ، از اين دختر ۱۶ ساله به صورت مکرر سو استفاده جنسی مينموده اند و با وی رابطه دوستی و رابطه جنسی خلاف اخلاق داشته اند.

۲ افسر نيروی انتظامی دايره مفاسد اجتماعی شهرستان نکا به نام های ، سروان مولائی ، و ، سروان ذبيهی ، از اصلی ترين ترين کسانی بوده اند که به اين اعمال خلاف اخلاق مبادرت مينموده اند و خود عاطفه اين قضيه را بار ها به يکی از نزديکان خود در ميان گذاشته بود ( نام اين شخص محفوظ است ) .در جريان دادگاه نيز عاطفه به رابطه با برخی افراد وابسته به نهاد های حکومتی اشاره ميکند .

در همين حال امضای اين ۲ افسر نيروی انتظامی نيز زير برگه شهادت بر عليه عاطفه به عنوان شاهد فاسد بودن عاطفه وجود دارد و آنها در اقدامی ديگر ( قبل از اعدام ) در خيابان راه آهن از تعدادی از عوامل خود و مردم بی خبر استشهاد نامه محلی مبنی بر اينکه اين دختر عامل فساد در اين منطقه است تهيه نمودند. در يک اقدام ديگر شايع اينکه ، عاطفه به ويروس HIV ، و به بيماری ايدز مبتلا است به راه انداخته بودند ،در حالی که در نکا يک درمانگاه استاندارد برای تشخيص مسئله نيز وجود ندارد.

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جسد عاطفه در همان شب بعد از نبش قبر توسط عوامل دادگاه بدون اطلاع خانواده وی به پزشکی قانونی در تهران انتقال داده شد و زمانی خبر آن تائيد شد که عمه عاطفه بخاطر اين مسئله شکايت کرد. اما هنوز خبری از دفن شدن مجدد جسد و محل دفن آن اعلام نشده است .

در پی شکايت عمه عاطفه ، پدر وی نيز طی ارسال شکايت نامه ای به ديوان عالی کشور بر عليه رئيس دادگاه نکا ، حاجی رضائی ، و نحوه رسيدگی به پرونده دخترش و ظلمی که بر خانواده وی روا داشته شده شکايت کرده است .

وی همچنين نامه ديگری نيز به يکی از سازمان های مدافع حقوق بشر ارسال نموده و از ان سازمان خواستار پی گيری پرونده دخترش و طلب کمک ا است . اين نامه اعتراضی از طريق يک موسسه تايپ و ترجمه در شهرستان ساری تهيه و تنظيم و ارسال شده است .

اما نکته جالب توجه اين است که در حالی مطبوعات وابسته به حاکميت ( روزنامه هايی ، اعتماد و ايران ) در گزارش های خود با استناد به گفته های رئيس دادگاه سن عاطفه را ۲۲ سال اعلام کرده اند ولی تاکنون حتی يکبار صفحه اول شناسنامه وی را منتشر نکرده اند . اما پدر عاطفه درهنگام ارسال شکايت نامه و نامه اعتراضی ، فتوکپی صفحه اول شناسنامه دخترش که گواهی بر ۱۶ ساله بودن وی ميدهد را نيز به ضميمه ان ارسال نموده است و بر عدم دسترسی دخترش به وکيل نيز تاکيد نموده است. اما اين رسانه ها در اقدامی که برای حفظ آبروی رژيم اسلامی صورت دادند سن عاطفه را ۲۲ اعلام کردند .


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:14 pm    Post subject: More facts regarding 16 Year Old Girl Execution Reply with quote



http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18386

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18381
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:01 pm    Post subject: More Details Emerging re: Execution of 16 Year old! Reply with quote

More Details Emerging re: 16 Year Old Atefeh Who Was Executed by the Mullahs!
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387
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Regime's Militia Officer in Charge of Vice in the city of Nekah, had a relationship with 16 year old Atefeh

Peykeiran: Reports published today on the ZananeIran (Iranian Women) web site and ISNA news agency in regards to the recent execution of a 16 year old girl from Nekah, have verified many of the news stories from Peykeiran. Once again we will publish certain details from this case, which exposes hundreds of similar daily abuses in Iran. This report was first published on September 3rd, 2004 on Peykeiran.

"Peykeiran: After the public execution of a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefeh, in the city of Nekah in Mazandaran province, who was charged with ‘Activities Against Public Morality’, many other truths have been revealed about this cruel act that further enrage one.

Since Atefeh's family was very poor and she suffered from mental illness, she was very susceptible to sexual exploitation, although in the Islamic Republic this type of sexual exploitation is commonplace and routine. With prior knowledge of her vulnerable circumstances, several of the regime's militia were regularly taking advantage of her through friendly and immoral physical contacts.

2 Officers of the anti vice militia in Nekah were the most active in taking advantage of her, they were Sarvan Mola'i and Sarvan Zabihi. Atefeh had mentioned this on numerous occasions to a family member (who will remain anonymous). During her trial, Atefeh also mentioned her relationships with several of the regime's personnel.

Meanwhile the signature of both these officers as witnesses to her vice appear on the deposition. In another attempt at her discreditation, these 2 officers obtained additional signatures from their contacts and unknowing strangers around Rahe Ahan street, prior to her execution, that Atefeh had engaged in vice in the area while she had HIV Aids. In another ruse they started rumors around town that Atefeh had Aids, even though there are no medical records or actual evidence indicating that she did."

Atefeh's corpse was stolen right after her burial by the agents of the court and transferred to Tehran's Coroner, without the knowledge or consent of her family. This was only confirmed after Atefeh's aunt filed an official complaint. But there is still no news of a second burial.

Following her aunt's complaint, Atefeh’s father also wrote a letter to the government protesting the head of the Nekah court, Haji Rezai, the way her case was handled and the cruelty done to him and his family. He has also written another letter to international human rights organizations asking their assistance in seeking justice for the cruelty done to him and his family. This letter was typed up and translated by an organization in the city of Sari and sent out to Human Rights organizations.

It is interesting to note that the newspapers affiliated with the regime such as Etemad and Iran, have claimed in their reports that she was 22 years old, but they have never published the first page of her birth certificate as proof that she was. But her father, while sending his written complaint, included a Xerox copy of her birth certificate showing that she was only 16 years old. Her father also emphasized how she was denied legal counsel. But these news outlets, in an attempt to protect the regime's reputation are insisting that she was 22 years old.


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Spenta wrote:
Dear Cyrus,

The story is about Atefeh the 16 year old girls who was tragically executed recently. Translation below:

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http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387



Dear Spenta,
Many thanks for your great contributions for freedom of our homeland.
Regards,
Cyrus
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:08 am    Post subject: Child Modesters and Child Killers in Iran Reply with quote

Child Modesters and Child Killers in Iran

Learn how 2 Officers of Iran’s regime had sexually molested Atefeh Rajabi, the 16-year-old girl who was executed on August 15, 2004 in Neka/Iran for “acts incompatible with chastity”. Learn how these officers were involved in fabricating rumors that Atefeh had HIV and learn how the 2 officers’ signatures were also found on a witness petition against Atefeh to prove she was a societal corruptive element.

What is amazing is that no news media in Iran has bothered to print the first page of Atefeh’s birth certificate, which would prove that she was, indeed, only 16 years old. Atefeh’s father and his lawyer have attempted to bring this to the authorities’ attention, yet the authorities and governmental news media in Iran keep claiming that she was 22 years old. Despite reports by the local community, her father, father’s lawyer and Atefeh’s statement herself that Atefeh was not mentally competent, no medical examination was ordered or performed before her execution.

Great Britain, Germany and France go right ahead and sign your bloodstained lucrative contracts with IRI and fill your deep pockets with the blood of our innocent people. But remember, nothing can erase our memory of your collaboration and support of Iran’s despotic regime. Nothing, not even if John Kerry is to be the next President of USA and he normalizes and restores relations with IRI, the axis of evil.

Indeed, shame on child molesters, child killers, their supporters and accomplices.
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Read in Farsi and learn for yourself:

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18386
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18381

Or read other related articles regarding the death of this young girl in English:

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde130362004
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/29/do2903.xml


Spenta wrote:
More Details Emerging re: 16 Year Old Atefeh Who Was Executed by the Mullahs!
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18387
Translation by ActivistChat.com Compatriot

Regime's Militia Officer in Charge of Vice in the city of Nekah, had a relationship with 16 year old Atefeh

Peykeiran: Reports published today on the ZananeIran (Iranian Women) web site and ISNA news agency in regards to the recent execution of a 16 year old girl from Nekah, haves verified many of the news stories from Peykeiran. Once again we will publish certain details from this case, which exposes hundreds of similar daily abuses in Iran. This report was first published on September 3rd, 2004 on Peykeiran.

"Peykeiran: After the public execution of a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefeh, in the city of Nekah in Mazandaran province, who was charged with ‘Activities Against Public Morality’, many other truths have been revealed about this cruel act that further enrage one.

Since Atefeh's family was very poor and she suffered from mental illness, she was very susceptible to sexual exploitation, although in the Islamic Republic this type of sexual exploitation is commonplace and routine. With prior knowledge of her vulnerable circumstances, several of the regime's militia were regularly taking advantage of her through friendly and immoral physical contacts.

2 Officers of the anti vice militia in Nekah were the most active in taking advantage of her, they were Sarvan Mola'i and Sarvan Zabihi. Atefeh had mentioned this on numerous occasions to a family member (who will remain anonymous). During her trial, Atefeh also mentioned her relationships with several of the regime's personnel.

Meanwhile the signature of both these officers as witnesses to her vice appear on the deposition. In another attempt at her discreditation, these 2 officers obtained additional signatures from their contacts and unknowing strangers around Rahe Ahan street, prior to her execution, that Atefeh had engaged in vice in the area while she had HIV Aids. In another ruse they started rumors around town that Atefeh had Aids, even though there are no medical records or actual evidence indicating that she did."

Atefeh's corpse was stolen right after her burial by the agents of the court and transferred to Tehran's Coroner, without the knowledge or consent of her family. This was only confirmed after Atefeh's aunt filed an official complaint. But there is still no news of a second burial.

Following her aunt's complaint, Atefeh’s father also wrote a letter to the government protesting the head of the Nekah court, Haji Rezai, the way her case was handled and the cruelty done to him and his family. He has also written another letter to international human rights organizations asking their assistance in seeking justice for the cruelty done to him and his family. This letter was typed up and translated by an organization in the city of Sari and sent out to Human Rights organizations.

It is interesting to note that the newspapers affiliated with the regime such as Etemad and Iran, have claimed in their reports that she was 22 years old, but they have never published the first page of her birth certificate as proof that she was. But her father, while sending his written complaint, included a Xerox copy of her birth certificate showing that she was only 16 years old. Her father also emphasized how she was denied legal counsel. But these news outlets, in an attempt to protect the regime's reputation are insisting that she was 22 years old.
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They kill a 16 year old girl for supposedly having sex, meanwhile they release a child molester after only 70 days in prison, then him and his buddies proceed to kidnap, rape and kill 26 young boys Evil or Very Mad Its disgusting!

Here's the band of child rapers and killers:
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18415
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:34 am    Post subject: Why the Mullahs Murdered Atefeh Rajabi Reply with quote

Symposium: Why the Mullahs Murdered Atefeh Rajabi

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 17, 2004

Source:http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15129

Tehran’s despots recently hanged a 16-year-old girl. What is it in the Arab-Islamic culture that breeds the demonization and dehumanization of the female?

To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel:

Dr. Donna M. Hughes, an expert on women’s human rights issues who holds the Carlson Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her fields include: violence, slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic fundamentalism, and women's organized resistance to violence and exploitation. She is frequently consulted by governments and non-governmental organizations on policy related to women's human rights, particularly on trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation;



Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst and Arabist who is the author of the upcoming book, The Sheikh's New Clothes: Islamic Suicide Terror and What It's Really All About.


and



Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, a native of Iran who is an activist and writer based in New York.



FP: Donna Hughes, Nancy Kobrin, and Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.

This discussion is dedicated to Atafeh Rajabi and to her family. Let’s take a moment of silence to reflect on the tragedy that befell Atefeh -- and on the suffering it represents of millions of persecuted peoples behind the Mullahs’ Curtain.


[Moment of silence]

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi let me begin with you. Tell us a bit about the circumstances behind Atefeh’s execution.

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, sadly this young woman was hung in public charged with adultery. The man with whom she had allegedly had sexual relations with was also arrested but he only received 75 lashes apparently and then freed!

However, in spite of the fact that her entire family pleaded, was condemned to death. Her parents had even specifically produced her birth certificate proving that she was 16 (proving that she's not an adult) and the ruling clergy of the town of NEKA (the town where she was hung) forged papers and insisted that in fact she was 22 and that that was enough reason to hang her.

NOT EVEN her parents' word for their daughter's age was acceptable to them because when these characters put their mind to it, they will falsify anything they want in order to justify heinous acts...just like all the "stories" they've woven around the death of the brave Ziba Kazemi!

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi, why does the male get lashes and the girl gets executed? What is the psychology here?

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran's interpretation of the Shari'a (I don't know how it's interpreted or done in Arab countries) a woman is automatically the seductress, however young and innocent. According to them, a man, no matter how old and promiscuous, is considered to be a "victim."

Now, quite a few facts about this poor young girl has come to light. First of all she was visibly mentally unwell (I guess bi-polar because by all accounts she wasn't retarded or dysfunctional; she defended herself at the so-called trial ) She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims. I've also heard charges (which I had suspected would be the story) that the Mullah judge, Hadji Rezai, who was also the proud executioner, had in fact wanted her for himself as a "temporary wife" and because either she or her parents had refused him, he had become enraged and had turned against her and falsified her age as 22, so that he could execute her.

I should add that this Mullah was not only the Judge but also the executioner and he proudly hung the noose around her neck himself. After her execution, he said publicly that her punishment was not execution but he taught her a "lesson" because of her sharp tongue.

I do want to mention one thing about these "temporary marriages" if I may...this allows men and women to get married for one hour or stay married for the rest of their lives. It's basically for the most part, a form of "legitimizing" prostitution and by the way, the woman has no rights to any income or assets of the man AND cannot be married to another man though the man is allowed to have his main wife and as many temporary wives he wants.

FP: Dr. Kobrin, this is obviously a very pathological and dysfunctional culture where men clearly viciously oppress women in the most crudest and despotic sense. It is no surprise, of course, that a “God” is involved that religious tyrants exploit to wage their sexual exploitation and subjugation of women. What are some of the roots to this misogynistic terror?

Kobrin: Let me begin by extending my condolences to the family of this young girl. It is a profound tragedy. I regret that I do not know her name as I wish that she does not remain anonymous. Her murder is classic paranoid behavior on the part of the Mullah, the perpetrator, Sharia and the Ummah (the Arab Muslim world) -- the killing is not named for what it really is -- murder. This is the same for honor killing and, in my opinion, suicide bombing -- in that the real victims are murdered but the violent act of murder is never admitted to by all those involved. The perpetrator also claims that "she” or “the Other” made him do it. When murder is denied, it is also terrifying for the witnesses because they live under a death threat with the message that you could be the next to be murdered if you dare to speak out.

While misogyny is the hatred of women in general, the misogynist actually harbors an even older and very specific unconscious hatred of the first woman in his life -- his mother. How do we know this? How a man treats a woman or young girl, reveals how he feels about his own mother as it is his first relationship in life with a woman.

But let's step back for a moment to think about where all this misogynistic rage comes from. A baby is completely dependent upon his mother for everything. This is the origin of the "terror" of dependency and its attendant "fears of abandonment, shame and humiliation" to be so dependent. At first a baby does not recognize his mother as being separate from himself not only physically but also psychologically. It is only slowly over time that a baby growing into the toddler years begins to develop a sense of mother as Other, apart from his/herself. So in the first months of life, the mother and baby are a unit of one. Two but "fused" together psychologically. The baby can not be "independent."

These initial months in the life of a baby are also the beginnings of sensuality and Eros through breast feeding, touching, bathing, playing etc. for the baby. It sets the template for later "erotic" relationships. Why? Because having sex recreates a "temporary" fusion of two becoming one, reminiscent of the maternal fusion. The early attachment to the mother becomes displaced, so to speak, into sexual relationship. Temporary marriage under Islamic law shows the tenuousness of being in a relationship with a woman. It is essentially a throw away relationship and highly disrespectful to women.

By the way, this is the origin for domestic violence and it can be encountered across all cultures since everyone has a mother. However, there is a higher rate of frequency in Arab Muslim culture for a series of reasons, one being that it is not permissible to "separate" from the mother. The mother is highly venerated, perhaps too much so as she is too idealized and unrealistic. Indeed, the word Ummah comes from the same root for mother in Arabic. The bond between mother and child even into adulthood is not to be severed. This is very similar to Asian cultures as well such as in Hindu culture and Japanese culture. There also tends to be many child rearing practices that involve shaming.

The sex act is important here because in the case of this 16-year-old young girl she was really raped. It can't be consensual sex; she has no power. Rape, murder and suicide are all indicators that misogynistic rage is very primitive, by which I mean that it arises early in the life of the perpetrator by age three if not earlier. We know that in domestic violence where conjoint murder and suicide occur routinely, that the perpetrator manifests a traumatic bond with his victim partner which links back to his early childhood experience with his own mother. His rage is then projected outward and displaced on to his victim partner whom he subsequently murders .He is terrified of abandonment and hates his feelings of helplessness.

Another point which fosters such misogynistic rage in Arab Muslim culture is that the male baby is more valued than the female. The little girl is the most devalued person in the entire Arab Muslim family. Growing into adulthood, she is the most traumatized and hence the most compromised for meeting the demands of motherhood too often at too young an age. Yet ironically, the mother is "allegedly" venerated when in fact as a little girl has been completely devalued and abused -- the trauma of all that can not be put behind so easily. As a mother she bears the emotion scars and can not be as effective as she needs to be.

The case of the 16-year-old girl demonstrates that reality is twisted around; what is true is denied. Not even her parents, her own mother, could assert authority concerning her age. And since the Mullah felt threatened by her being "sexual" and hence out of his control, the Sharia solution is simple: deny reality and kill her off. It is all projection of the Mullah's murderous rage meant for his own mother. Instead of murdering his mother off in fantasy, the Mullah quite literally acted out his murderous rage against his mother in real time and space, on to this poor 16-year-old girl.

FP: Dr. Hughes, what do you make of this case and Dr. Kobrin’s theories?

Hughes: Shocking though Atefeh’s execution may be, it is consistent with the ideology and practice of the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.

Iran, a land of Persian culture and Shi’a Islam, has been controlled by religious leaders since the revolution that ousted the Shah in 1979. Iran is a unique theocracy crafted from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s interpretation of the Koran.

Islamic fundamentalism is not just a conservative form of Islam, the way we in the United States have conservative (and moderate and liberal) forms of Christianity. Islamic fundamentalism is fascistic, totalitarian, and expansionist in its dedication to export its revolution to the entire Muslim world and eventually to destroy the western world and in particular “the Great Satan” - the United States.

Islamic fascism is hostile to modernity, democracy, and freedom and rights for women. Misogyny – hatred of women – is at its core, just as hatred of the Jews was at the core of Nazism. The Nazis gauged their success on whether they had eliminated the Jewish population in each town; Islamic fascists gauge their success by how deeply they suppress women.

The ideology of Islamic fundamentalism contends that women and men are very different beings. Women are said to be intellectually inferior and emotionally unstable, and consequently have to be excluded from decision making positions in society. Women are said to be the embodiment of sexual temptation and sin. That is why their bodies and hair must be covered at all times in public so as not to distract or tempt men. Rules and punishments in society are based on controlling women, through segregation, restrictions on travel, and most importantly, forcing them to conform to the restrictive dress code.

The Rajabi case is quite emblematic of Iranian Islamic fundamentalism. Her supposed crime was sexual in nature; the girl was more severely punished than the man involved; the judge and the judicial system were arbitrary and corrupt; the girl was executed for resisting male authority, and the execution was carried out in public to terrify the population.

Rajabi was accused of “acts incompatible with chastity.” A man was charged as well. He received 100 lashes and afterwards released (100 lashes are nothing to take too lightly, but it certainly is less than being hanged.) A woman told Radio Farda, a U.S. funded Farsi radio station, that the judge accused the girl of prostitution. Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi says that the judge Haji Rezaii wanted Rajabi for a temporary marriage, but was rejected. She’s correct that temporary marriage can be an official form of prostitution or keeping a mistress. Whatever the exact nature of her activity, the most severe punishment of women in Iran is for perceived sexual misconduct – and women are always held responsible for not keeping themselves chaste. She could have been stoned to death.

Rajabi talked back to the judge, reportedly insulted him and said that the real perpetrators of moral corruption should be punished not the victims. That sounds like an accusation to me and possibly a threat. Does the judge know who these real perpetrators are that she referred to? We know that judges and other officials have been caught running prostitution rings. In her outrage at the unfairness of the charges against her, one account said she “undressed in court,” although according to Alasdair Palmer in The Sunday Telegraph (August 29, 2004), she only took off her headscarf.

To us in the West, that seems like such a small act of defiance, but to the Islamic fascists, it is a threat to their entire ideology and system of social control. A woman or girl pulling off a headscarf is a challenge to the whole theocratic terrorist state. If a girl is allowed to get away with it, the whole system will start to crumble.

Some news stories have said that Rajabi was mentally ill. She doesn’t sound mentally ill to me. She sounds furious and tragically sane and intelligent enough to see through the corruption and injustice of the insane mullahs’ system. She was foolishly courageous enough to confront a perpetrator of the misogynous system.

Haji Rezaii, the sadistic judge, chose to personally take part in snuffing out her life. He personally put the noose around Rajabi’s neck and gave the signal for the crane to hoist her body into the air.

Afterwards, Rezaii said that his real reason for executing her was her “sharp tongue.” In truth, her real crime was speaking truth to power.

In Iran, people are hanged in public to terrorize the rest of the population. It is a message to everyone that this can happen to you too. The mullahs’ regime is extremely corrupt. We know that many pro-democracy activists are hanged in public. The officials claim they committed a serious crime, but everyone in the town knows the real reason they have been executed is because the person stood up to the regime. I’m sure all the teenage girls in Neka got a lesson.

Rajabi was buried after she has hanged, but that night someone stole her body from the grave. Her family has filed a complaint, but no one knows who did it. Perhaps the sadists in the court and prison system needed to disappear the body to conceal evidence of abuse that could be found if her body was disinterred and examined. Just last year the mullahs refused to release the body of murdered Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi to her son, and insisted it be buried under their control in Iran. The world knows now that they did this to prevent a full autopsy that would reveal the extent to which they tortured Kazemi before she died. After the revolution in 1979, the prison guards were known to rape women and girls before they executed them. They rationalized these atrocities with their fascist ideology: virgins go to heaven; if they raped them before they died, they would go to hell instead. I wonder what they did to Rajabi in the three months between her trial and her execution.

I believe Nancy Kobrin’s explanation provides some insights into the misogynous mullahs, but doesn’t explain everything. I believe she’s correct in saying that the judge is exhibiting paranoid behavior. As I said above, I suspect he has something to hide; otherwise, he wouldn’t have made it such a personal vendetta to murder Rajabi. I also agree that the misogynous mullahs project their feelings and guilt as perpetrators onto the victim. They make women and girls responsible for all their own feelings and behaviors, particularly sexual ones.

Possibly a good psychoanalysis would explain why Khomeini designed a theocratic dictatorship based on the hatred and suppression of women. Certainly, Islamic fundamentalism is a pathological ideology and system. But I don’t think you can explain the whole Islamic fascist regime with one type of analysis. We need other sciences and analyses, such as political science, sociology, theology, and feminism to fully understand the mullahs’ misogynous system.

FP: Ms. Zan-Bonazzi feel free to respond to our two guests, but I would also like to raise what just happened in Chechnya. We know now that the terrorists blew up their own female accomplices. This outrage is all connected to our theme isn't it?

Zand-Bonazzi: I really cannot speak about the Chechens. I know nothing about that part of the story. All I am able to comment on is what happens in Iran in Sharia interpretations of the Iranian Mullahs. You must know that each country has its own customs. Iran is a country with a strong sense of identity; our Persian"ness" is very very important to us and that is one of the main reasons why we´ve never lost our soul, per se to Islam, like Pakistanis for example who have given up thousands of years of their identity and culture in order to wrap themselves in Islam.

We received more information about Atefeh Rajabi last week that was extremely sad. It turns out that due to her mental imbalance (it has been suggest that she may have been bi-polar) and her family´s improvised conditions, two army guys stationed in Neka paid her family to have sex with her. Then it turned out that after the other man (with whom she was caught - which has also been suggested was framing her at the behest of Rezai) had relations with her, Hadji Rezai blackmailed the two army guys to go around the streets of Neka to threaten people into signing a document bearing false witness claiming they knew her as nothing more than a common local whore. This of course was done in order to satisfy the Tehran courts; after all they need to provide some kind of proof to the "supreme court," however fake it is...as long as it looks official, the so-called judiciary doesn´t really care OR check for that matter.

The other thing that I read last week in the latest news coming out of Iran that is infuriating (the Iran I grew up in was not like this) is that the Mullahs have now taken to designing specific underwear for women, they are clamping down on the color of the overcoats and scarves women are wearing and they do check, if they feel like it, to see whether you´re properly dressed. Also they are designing men´s robes for comfortable stone throwing during stoning of women! This is not a new phenomenon though because frankly this has been happening since the beginning of the revolution and Dr. Hughes is absolutely correct in saying that it IS in fact due to Khomeini´s psychotic rulings that all this has come about.



I remember back in ´79 when Khomeini first arrived, I was in Iran demonstrating against these Mullahs and in their first waves of executions Dr. Farrokhroo Parsa, a magnificent Lady, in her late ´60´s who in the ´60´s and part of the ´70´s, was the minister of Education was without a trial, dragged out of her house and brutally executed. Charges? Among other trumped up lies, they said that she degraded school girls by permitting them to wear shorts in Phys Ed!!!!!!! Till this day, that execution has every thinking Iranian boiling mad...and then a wave of executions of women teachers who were progressive and educated people occurred where some of our best educators were stoned to death.

Right now we have thousands of women sitting in prisons in Iran. Women and children have put up with THE worst of this regime. The story of Masoomeh S. is one of the saddest though. She´s been in prison now for 22 years and when she went in she was 62! She was arrested in 1982 because she had lost 2 sons in the Iran-Iraq war, early on and when they came to drag her third and last son away to war, she got mad and went to Tehran (from her village) to plead with someone in the ministry of war. They told her off and sent her on her way but refusing to leave, she sat for days on end in front of the building. Finally some high up pencil pusher got mad enough to have her arrested and they hauled her off, never to be freed. We have been screaming about her case for years...to no avail.

I was once told confidentially by someone close to the Khomeini family, who is actually sane, that the one person who was put through pure hell and was essentially a prisoner was Khomeini´s own wife, Batool. I also understand that Khomeini´s granddaughter who is married to Khatami´s brother, (another promoter of the flimflam Reformists) is terribly angry about the state of women but she is muzzled up by her overbearing husband...this came out in an article that Elaine Schiolino (not that her "tall tales" or the paper it´s published in, are worth citing) wrote a while back, where she had interviewed Khomeini´s granddaughter and had quoted her stating her concerns and frustrations and the day after the piece came out in the NY Times, Mohammad Reza Khatami, I´m told, had shot off a very confrontational and accusatory letter to Schiolino stating that she had in fact fabricated the story and that it must be retracted immediately! This was probably the only article Schiolino didn´t exaggerate and romanticize where Iran and the revolution are concerned and strangely this was the one piece she was wrote where she was called a liar by the very people SHE helped promote!

The worst offender of this situation, as far as (I can easily, without exaggeration) 90% of Iranians inside and outside Iran are concerned is Shirin Ebadi (people in Iran loathe her with a passion for turning out to be the consiglieri to these Moslem Mafiosi) who undeniably got her education during the time of the Shah and became THE first female judge in Iran as well...then these Mullahs show up and force her to step down because according to the Sharia, no woman is permitted to judge a man. This woman then happily agrees to live and abide by the rules of a bunch of old men (with all kinds of wild sexual proclivities & drug habits of their own) who think that life in 2004 is the very same as it was 1500 years ago! If nothing else, Ms. Ebadi´s betrayal of her womanhood is hugely distressing. The fact that the West accepts her as window-dressing for a regime that otherwise snuffs out women is even more disgusting and reprehensible.

FP: Ms. Zand-Bonazzi, thank you. It is excruciating to hear these realities and to contemplate the suffering of the Iranian people under this barbaric and insane regime. Sexual repression and the demonization of the female -- and of her sexuality -- clearly always lead to all kinds of pathologies and you have illustrated for us, in part of your answer, the demented perversion that has grown on the part of the morality police. Sorry to center in on this but: laws about new women’s underwear?? And the right of the religious police to check to make sure? I don’t mean to degrade this dialogue down to this level, but I am actually quite curious: what kind of specific women’s underwear are, exactly, “moral”? What are the clerics now actually designing and demanding women to wear? This is simply beyond my comprehension. Do the underwear, like, have images of the Ayatollah Khomeini on them or what?



Zand-Bonazzi: That´s a funny image...! Frankly I haven’t a clue as to how these underwear will look; I’m sure it’ll be something of a chastity belt and believe me, they do check. As of a few months ago, if the revolutionary guards in the streets saw, let’s say a car with a couple of girls or women in it, they’d pull them over, get them out of the car to check to make sure they’re wearing socks even! It’s a random thing. If they feel like it or they don’t like the way you look (it’s based on a whim on how much they think they can upset you and get your goad) they’ll haul you off for their women guards to strip you down and make sure you’re dressed according to the law. And now any form of make-up is also being forbidden...colorful headscarves are banned And if the scarf you’re wearing is sitting too far back on your head, you can be charged with BAD HEJABI (strangely BAD means bad in Farsi too...so your first interpretation would be correct!) and dragged off to receive at least 35 lashes!

But this of course is nothing more than posturing and scaring women who are not poor. You see, because there’s such a huge rate of unemployment in Iran, poor women who have no education have had to turn to prostitution, which is now hugely rampant all over Iran...back in the old days prostitutes had their own part of town and prostitution was sort of regulated. Anyhow, a year or so ago, I heard a 26 year old woman who was calling [from Tehran] into one of the radio shows of our wonderful Los Angeles based radio KRSI; she was calling to tell the story of her junky husband whom she had paid to put through dozens of recovery programs and had finally overdosed, leaving her with two kids that she had to support. All she could do to support herself and her family was prostitution. She then described an incident of having one day been picked up off the street in a stretch limo by a Mullah who had taken her to his mansion and had had his way with her for almost 24 hours, the whole time getting stoned out of his mind on Opium (90% of the Mullahs are major drug addicts - Khameini’s Opium habit is a very well known fact). When time came for her to leave he’d paid her half of what they’d originally negotiated; when she complained, he pulled a 9 millimeter out of his abaaya and put it in her mouth and told her that if she complained he’d personally bury her in his garden. These stories are everywhere in Iran...we hear them all the time. For us, it’s become normal...sadly.

I can go on and on to tell you about how they auction off our little kids in sex slave auctions in the gulf countries, how they have turned a huge part of the population into hardcore drug addicts (in Iran, it’s mostly Opium and Heroin)...but that would be going off the subject.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Banafsheh is a GREAT activist

God Bless her and bless her father
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Thank you Cyrus
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I think it's with her hijab, but they probably wanted to edit it so that they could show her with long hair. Thanks achat - the hijab is a prison for Iranian women.

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I forwarded this sad story to everyone.. but none seems to care.. Crying or Very sad

what i can do ?
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well i really care and so does my family both here nad in iran

so we got it coverd
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