Father Stones 14 Year Old Daughter to Death
Save Delara reports that a 14-year-old girl was stoned to death by her father a few days ago in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan.
The young girl’s murder was reported to the authorities by her mother, who stated that her husband, Sharif, “is a suspicious and cruel man who abused me and my daughter. He was particularly harsh on Samieh, my 14 year old daughter, until he finally found an excuse to take her out of the house and to an undisclosed location.”
Upon his arrest, the father provided a chilling account of the cold-blooded murder of his own daughter.
“After a while, I became fully convinced that Samieh is having relations with a man. I perceived my honor to have been damaged, and tolerating such a condition and remaining silent was like death to me. So I decided to kill Samieh and rid myself of this shame. In this context, I had to make a decision about how I should kill Samieh and save myself from such disgrace. I had to choose a method for killing my daughter that would fit her wrongdoing. Finally, I became convinced that I should stone her to death, but because I could not personally carry out the execution by myself, I sought the assistance of my friend, Ghafoor. When he learned about my problem, he accepted to help me kill Samieh to wash the stain of disgrace from my family. Ghafoor contacted a few other people and established the time and place to carry out the act. On the day of the incident, I forcefully took my daughter out of the house and dragged her to the outskirts of Holoor. She was terrified during the whole trip, and while she realized that she is about to face a horrifying fate, she was not sure of the punishment that I had planned for her. When we reached the planned destination, I threw my daughter on the ground and we began to stone her. Samieh kept screaming and pleaded and begged for her life. But, in order to restore my honor and return myself to a respectable life, I had no choice but to kill her. Then I fled.”
While the young teen’s murder might not be sanctioned by law, the country’s penal code prescribes execution by stoning. In fact, Article 104 states that stones used should “”not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones.”
Despite the fact that execution by stoning was offcially suspended by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashermi Sharoudi, the head of the judicial authority, in 2002, the practice continues to this day, with one man reportedly stoned to death in the village of Aghche-kand last year.
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This makes me want to vomit. No where near is God in this satanic act. What a small and ignorant man. This makes me ashamed to be even remotely Iranian. I bet my left foot he didn’t even give her a burial. This guy should be hung from the feet until he bleeds from his eyes, then maybe he will shed a tear for his terrible crime. His own daughter, on a suspicion!! UNHOLY.
Women, by far, are victimized by bias crimes around the world more than any other group of people.
Surprise surprise, it happened in Sistan-Baluchistan. The most backward and illiterate province in Iran.
And these people want independence?
Danial,
Honor killings happen in the US and thru out the world nowadays.
Oh I know, one happened just 20 minutes from where I live in Texas last month.
Iran is to be blamed. In the same province few months back, 7 bandits were mutilated by arm and leg. The government should invest in the land, instead of worrying for all shiite sunni rivialires they should provide for the nation. Baluchis are as much Iranian as any other ethnic groups in Iran. They are neglected, the province could be a source of waelth and prosperity because of its very strategic place. Not all Baluchi people are as backward and savage as this man, but they need help, a help that Iran is not providing.
For this very barbaric act, I will not cease to call my baluchi brethren but my brothers and sisters from the negliected province of Baluchistan. As an iranian we have to wake up! and do some thing for our country! for the culture and well being of our people…..sigh..
Crime is disgusting, it is all over the place. The best way to fight crime and criminals is to promote culture and welfare.
“The best way to fight crime and criminals is to promote culture and welfare.”
What precisely does the Baluchi culture consist of?
No matter how often I read about these cases, my heart always breaks freshly when I read about a new one. May Allah grant her peace.
Elinor is right. Theis province is almost denied any kind of investment for the majority of its citizens are Sunni and Tehran (or Qom -the center of most orthodox shitte clerics-?) is afraid of a strong Sunni movement.
Oh that poor girl and her poor mother. May G-d send her comfort.
A man’s honor depends on the actions of a 14 year old little girl? And this is condoned in islamic countries as accepable? I always thought there was much more to HONOR than that. Honor is what a man is, or what HE aspires to be……not some little kid’s stupidity. This episode is really pitiful.
Can you really blame them? Just look at how these “Sunni movements” have subjugated Shi’as in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades. Their fear is based on conviction at least.
It also doesn’t help that this site uses propaganda to make their plight known, such as the Iranian flag being an offshoot of Sikhism lol
Danial:
People in that south-eastern province are poor.
why? because Tehran refuses to invest there.
why? because Iran’s regime is afraid of a strong Sunni movement.
why? because Sunnis subjugated Shiites there and there.
why? because Iranian Shiite did the same to Iranian Sunnis.
why? because Sunnis did the same to Shittes there and there.
why? ….
there is a loop of conviction, violence, counter-acts, every thing. I was just to explain the first why, not the rest. and honestly, I dont know any solution to this suffering loop… at least for now.
Well when their neighboring counterparts in Pakistan have no shame in killing Chinese engineers who are there to build the port of Gwadar, how can you help them if they can’t help themselves?
Danial,
You can only know more about Baluchi culture if you go to the region and stay with them and observe the way baluchis live closely.
As shocked and hurt I am when i hear any one being hurt due to the wickedness of some behavior in a particular place, I refrain from generalizing the same behavior to that of the people of the region where the crime took place. If we want to argue that way we should conclude from the fact that a bunch of American soldiers raping and killing an Iraqi girl and killing the reast, that all American soldiers are that way. It isn’t true and we cannot generalise an eveil behavior.
When in a place in the world we hear about crimes we understand that region needs help. Baluchistan is not an exception. I personally have travelled to baluchistan many times and I have a good number of Baluchi friends. Baluchis had been discrimiated in the previous regimes as well, The Gajar kings disturbed them so much, since then they call all the outsiders ” Gajar”. We still have many villages in baluchistan where people live in mud huts covered with palm leaves. The soil is rich, fertile and there is this rever called Sarbaz, which flows all across Baluchistan toward the Oman sea. If invested in and taken seriously the region would flourish, but unfortunately after the revolution, as well as before, nothing seriously has been done, and the reason as I have understood is strategic: It is dangerous and the place will become a base for Pakistan, or the Baluchis from the both sides of the border will declare independence.
If The authorities ever thought as a true Iranian they would realize there is nothing more important than tending to the children of Iran. Tending to their provinces, they need to be tended. I heard from a teacher who lived in the villages in Baluchistan that some very intelligent students there, in the places with no electricity or proper sanitation, there were students who knew the books by heart, for the love they had for literacy and learning, they would read and read their old copies on and on. The same student would have to becom a drug dealer later on, to make money for the family.
I think culture Of Baluchi people is very genuine, but the modernity Danial might expect would only be established grqadually and through many years of honest and continuous work and dedication.http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370046
Sigh… Where are those Albert Shweitzers?
Elinor:
I would agree with you less or more. but that kind of progress this province needs happens through cooperation between People & Government. in this case, neither one seems ready to begin the process.
and, West Provinces , most notably Kurdistan, suffer the same problem, unfortunatley. the situation of Kurdistan is even worse since there was an official decision not to invest there in post-war years.
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My choice,
Some time back they mutilated 7 bandits in the name of law and religion, that was executed by the country in Baluchistan. When they exercise such barbaric laws, what you expect from the people of a very poor underdeveloped province and the way people initially would handle their problems.
I recall villages with no men reisdent. The men would marry and leave, leave to work in one of these Arab countries to make money and provide, but when they would come back, no one knew. In the same village, the elderly would pass away and you would see there is only a bunch of women and minors left, what would happen to these people?
A very intelligent baluchi man who made his way to university set back and deciced he would not continue: If he did, he had to forget about the chastitiy and security of the plighted village. You canno count on the helps offered by the government as well becaause government would preach shiism, the Suaudis would teach and preach otherwise, and you see a gorup of people in between, who need much to pull themselves up and get in tune with the rate of change, change in every thing…
Mohammand,
I agree with you as well dear, but would be the approach of the government? Do people trust this government to begin with?
To deal with problems of baluchistan Iran and pakistan should have cooperation and a Will to make a change. An Iranian dean of a university in USA once wanted to open a university in Iran, but he believed it is very hard to maintain the university, because a university should be detached from the political upheavals and he could not guarantee that to begin with. He wanted to buy some lands in Baluchistan and open his University there as a contribution to making the change possible. Iran does not make use of the passion of Iranians living outsite. They come to do some thing for their beloved country and they get discouraged by all means.
Yes Kurdistan is another region that needs much help. As you said the government thinks investments in the provinces by the border would make them strong and motivate them for independence. This is the most stupid reason for not investing.
I remember a trip to Kordistan and some villages by the border of Turkey, a beautiful Kordish teenager was trying to communicate with me in Persian. She would mix the words but her passion to make me understand helped her speak.. She raised the two calfs in the fertile domains of the maintains and in return she was taken to the city with her dad, the closest city, that happened after two years, because it takes time to raise a calf, to make it a cow. Then she recieved enough money to buy herself what she brought to show me with excitement: a pair of jeans and a red blouse.
She spoke of the village bigger than theirs, where the school was, they would walk for hours to reach the school. A young man from the city could come to teach them for a couple of hours. He would bit them up with a wire. That was the education they recieved.
What we have done for Kordistan?
What have we done for Masumeh? That beautiful girl who loved to lean more?
For the Kurdish people who could make enough money to survive before the revolution through selling goods across the border, but now whatever they take to the other side, across the high mountains.. it is illigal, so they are called smugglers for the fact that they need to make money for their families to survive.
In the mountains when they are being caught they have to run away and hide, the horses with the goods are taken, the goods confiscated, the horses Executed ! shot to death, in the market, in fron of their eyes, does any one believe this? I know you won’t, but the ones who are well informed about the state of affairs at the present would confirm. I saw the letters they were sending the authorities to show their anger. The horses could mean to them, I mean to their lives more than their sons. Their sons cannot make money untill their grow up, but the horses bring bread over the table ( Sofreh). Killing the horses is way too hard for the kurdish people loving by the borders to handle.
Now how you think they have invested in Kurdistan?
Well you can’t say from the time the revolution took place nothing has changed, but change is in the essence of all the matters all the living and non living things, the rate of change should be compatible with the nececities of people of the region.
I send my love the the people of my country, to the ones who would never see a computer, would never learn enough a language other than their local dialects, to communicate, to speak out about what they have in their heart and in their minds.
The only way to save the Countries is to think Beyond countries and regions, we need to pool forces and effort so that many would benefit, the investors, the locals, the governments, the contractors, importer/ exporters, producers, farmers…….
Do we have people who Care?
Regardless of religion?
Regardless of the specific regions?
Regardless of politics?
Sad stories… in addition to the fact that western provinces are somehow much more beautiful than Shomal (northern territories of Iran known for thier beautiful landscapes and jungles). probably we (I & m wife) spend our next summer in a beautiful village in these provinces… albeit a village which serves internet services!
Unfortunately an ideology runnig current government might never be justified. and, indeed, that is what makes our efforts futile.
Mohammad,
I hope you enjoy your trip to Kurdistan, I hope you inquire into how people are doing as well, how they live their lives and if things are any better.
Mohammad there is some thing else I want to tell you here. Some of the very poor or under-developed provinces have a lot of income. For example the province of Hormozgan, the money they get through Hormoz traffic and cosums is a good deal of income that could definitely make the province flourish all by itself, without relying on the income of selling out oil. But you know what happens? you know where it goes? It all goes to the centeral government which planns for all provinces and allocates budget accordingly. So whomever is appointed there as the governor of a povince is the one who collects the money and sends it to Tehran. The one who tries to keep some or fight for a part of income to be invested in thwe province will be changed right away. The governor who would send more money to the centeral government is the good one. I wish if only a portion, only a portion of the income of the state was dedicated to the same locality….. Not to the subway train of Tehran, or x and y and z futile plans and projects….
though one might easily defend the idea that the wealth of the country should be collected thoroughly and redistributed wisely so as to help poor provinces maintain a fair progress, no one can defend the corrupt version of this idea currently underway in Iran which collects the wealth from the whole nation and redistribute it in favor of elites (and their families).
Tehran’s subway, as you pointed out, is a good example. every year we hear of several schools burned in poor provinces due to lack of proper heating system, and sometimes the faces of innocent kids gets disfigured so badly that Im sure none of those officials in Tehran would ever dare to look at them anymore, and on the other hand they spend billions on such luxury projects… Tehran’s subway is a luxury project, since the root cause of Tehran’s traffic problem is something else and could not be solved through subway project. (the traffic problem of Tehran is the result of mis-administration faults accumulated during the past 40 years).
and, Khuzestan, the mostly arab province of southern west part of Iran, is another example: it produces most of the oil Iran enjoys every year, but has no special share of the revenues… and with seccionist movements on rise after Kosova declared independence, no wonder if separationist movements get strong again.
Mohammad, we say the country has no matron, patron. It is an Islamic dependent state of white Russia, that is how I feel it is. For years of after revolution they taught people how to say death with this country death with the other. The name of Russia was very soon ommited from the list of the ones people should shout against. The rest of the countries that people should keep shouting about have since remained the same. So this means we are very much adhered to Russia, doesn’t it?
I was concluding from the way the president looked obedient and very polite in the presence of Putin when he was in Tehran, that he had so much to share with Russia. It is good to compare how he behaved in New York and the UN, in USA, to how he treated Putin. I mean actions talk too much. I guess we are a part of Russia, I see no independence, when we have to fight for buying the out-dated technology of the Russians to create a faulty plant and how we are challenging the World for the cause, while the whole thing is nothing but an out dated method of providing energy, which we bought many many years back and the project was years back a failor, because the costs out weighed the benefits and the time table was not preserved….
We are doing this for Russia, yes after the revolution we are so Islamicly in love with the Russians, in a way Americans cannot intervene in this love affair, and the rest of the story revolved around this. Does it make sense ?
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Having a child is such a blessing that I can’t imagine any species doing such a horrific act to another… When I think of the relationship between a child and a parent I remember the movie of the penguins and their children. This is a perfect exemple of caring for your child, not the monster called Sharif… I am ashamed of being called human with all the problems we are causing to others and to the evironement.
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This is insaint
What kind the father is he.
Its just that she fell in love with someone it doesn’t mean that he have the right to kill her and it’s 21st centuries for god’s sake.
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Stoning to death as a punishment for adultery is NO WHERE spoken of in the Holy Quran. At one instance stoning was done to a Jew- that was based on the Jewish Holy Book. The Jews referred a case on
fornication to Muhammad-the Messenger of God (pbuh). He asked them what punishment the Torah prescribed in case of adultery. The Jews tried first to conceal the fact that it was stoning to death, but the Jewish scholar living then ( Abd-Allah ibn Salam) admitted the existence of such a punishment and the guilty persons were dealt with as given in Torah ( Bukhari 61;25).
The New Testament narrates a similar incident during the time of Jesus Christ(puh)
I quote from John Chapter 8 Verses 3,4 and 5.
Verse 3. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to him (Jesus) a
woman caught in adultery. And when they set her in the midst.
Verse 4. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in
adultery, in the VERY ACT.
Verse 5. “Now Moses, in the law commanded us that such SHOULD BE
STONED. But what do you say?” JOHN 8: 3-5
So you can see that stoning was the punishment for adultery in the
Jewish Law and that in the case of Jewish offenders, this punishment
was resorted to by the Holy Prophet Muhammad( pbuh) when he was the ruler of Medinah.
Was the same punishment given to Muslims in Medinah at any time? Yes. It is true that the same punishment was given in certain cases when the offenders were Muslims. BUT CERTAINLY THIS WAS BEFORE THE
REVELATION OF THE QURANIC VERSE 24:2.
“ As for the adulteress and the adulterer-flog each of them with a
hundred stripes, and let not compassion with them keep you from this
law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day; and let a group of the believers witness their chastisement” 24:2
Verse 24:2 speaks of MILD flogging, aiming at disgracing the offenders rather than torturing. The number of those to witness has been deliberately left unspecified, thus indicating that while the mild punishment must be given publicly, it need not be made a ‘public spectacle’.
The Arabic word for flogging is JALD( means: skin). In other words,
the punishment by flogging should be felt only by the skin. It aims
more at disgracing the culprits rather than torturing them. Hence the Holy Quran positively excludes death or stoning to death. In fact, anyone who does deep research and objective interpretation of the Quranic Verse 4: 25, can see that, all possibilities of death as a punishment for adultery are precluded.
Verse 4.25 gives the law on punishing for immoral conduct
(fornication) Of believing maidens ( the community rightfully possess) They shall be liable to HALF the penalty to which free married women are liable. The weaker social status of a slave woman makes her, obviously more accessible to sexual temptation than a free married woman is presumed to be.
Now the important point here is to understand that the number of 100
flogging can be halved but death or stoning to death can never be
halved. So it is very clear that the Holy Quran speaks about flogging not death as a punishment for adultery.
Now the question arises: Why did the prophet punish the Muslim
adulterers making use of the Laws of Moses?
The answer is, it was the Prophet’s practice to follow the earlier
revealed law until he received an amended and a definite law on a
specific wrong doing. People well versed in the evolution of Islamic
law knew that drinking of alcohol was not prohibited in the beginning. People were not allowed to come to pray being drunk, but drinking itself was not forbidden until much later. The same thing was true about personal money lending and charging interest on personal loan as it was practised by Abbas (raa) The revelation about the prohibition on interest on personal lending was received just a short while before the death of the Prophet.
The interpretation of the Quranic laws have been continuously
developing and evolving and scholars have been elaborating and making changes to the earlier interpretations.
Quran is the one and the only miracle of Islam. The adoring beauty of the Quran is that it throws a different light or a new light according to the time. No scholar’s interpretation on the Quran is the last word or final. Taqi ad Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyah ( 8th century’s greatest scholar)or Razi or Abu Muslim, might have given an interpretation on a particular Verse, but a great scholar like Shah Waliyullah ( 18th century) might have differed from that interpretation.
And now in the 21st century, Sheikh Qaradawi may find earlier
interpretations highly objectionable on several counts and give a
totally different meaning to the same Verse based on the particular
circumstances of the society now. The beauty of the Quran is that
there is absolutely no change in the original revealed words but
interpretations keep changing according to the environment,
circumstances, facts and lives of people. People who are going to live in the 25th century may find new light in the Quran that the present day scholars have never dreamt of.
Moreover, it is also for the Shariyah judge to decide the sort of
punishment to be given to suit the circumstances. Great latitude is
allowed to the judge in the choice of punishments.
So what we need is stronger Iman and deeper research in order to
understand the immense wisdom behind the Qu’ranic laws. We should
not jump to hasty conclusions. If all the trees are turned into pens
and all the seas are turned into ink, the pens and the ink will be
exhausted but God’s words will never be exhausted.
Modern man thinks he is too intelligent and hence foolishly questions even some of the most accepted Quranic ethics probably because he wants to compete with the fast changing decadent Western culture and try to appease and apologize. There is nothing to apologize in the laws of One True Almighty God. God knew Best.