Iran executes woman who killed her rapist

Iran executes woman who killed her rapist from the files of Colonel Allen B. West

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The Obama administration is seeking to ease nuclear sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Democrat party is also using a tired theme of “war on women” in this midterm election cycle.

Perhaps they should pay attention to the nexus of these two points as reported by The Jerusalem Post.

Last weekend, ” A twenty-six year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared.”

“Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran’s Evin prison after failing to secure a reprieve from the murder victim’s relatives within the 10-day deadline set by sharia law in force since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 2007, Jabbari was arrested for killing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.

Jabbari claimed that she was defending herself against Sarbandi’s sexual advances. She was given the death penalty by a Tehran court in 2009. The Iranian supreme court denied her appeals against the sentence.”

Remember, under Islamic sharia law, a woman needs three male witnesses on her behalf in order to corroborate any accusations she may bring against a male — as part of the traditions of Muhammad. So, as in the case of the Sudanese Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim, where were all these feminist voices to speak out against this action?

I guess Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz, and Fluke — as well as Sen. Mark Udall — are just too “politically” busy to address a real war on women. No, feminist groups would rather video little girls in princess outfits dropping f-bombs to help their cause.

Of course this only represents the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the abhorrent conditions for women in the Islamic world.

Where is the Freedom from Religion Foundation or all the other “separation of church and state” organizations who want to use the IRS against Christian pastors? What does the lesbian Mayor of Houston have to say about how Iran — and Islam — treats homosexuals? I guess she sees Christian ministers and their sermons a bigger threat because I’ve never heard her use her “activist” voice in this matter.

The case of Ms. Jabbari was decided under sharia law — not the rule of law and jurisprudence of individual rights and equal protection under the law. So where is that venerable international organization promoting global rights and freedoms — the United Nations? Well, I doubt they UN Human Rights organization with its stellar list of nations cared much.

Especially since that same body has adopted UNHR Resolution 16/18, an initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly Organization of Islamic Conferences), the confederacy of 56 Islamic states. Resolution 16/18 seeks to limit speech viewed as “discriminatory” or which involves the “defamation of religion” – specifically that which can be viewed as “incitement to imminent violence.”

In other words, it effectively condemns anyone deemed “offensive” or “critical” of Islam — to the possible point of criminal indictment.

Perhaps that’s why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as former UN Ambassador Susan Rice both speak very little about the plight of women in the Islamic world — after all, they both supported the March 2011 resolution.

The bottom line is, why does the Obama administration wish to circumvent the U.S. Congress and relieve sanctions against Iran, allowing it to march towards a nuclear capacity — and not for peaceful means? Iran still holds U.S. citizen and Pastor Saeed Abedini — but I guess his life just isn’t worth anything to the progressive socialists and Islamist enablers of the Obama administration — namely Barack Hussein Obama himself.

In the end, the war on women is just a political gimmick for Democrats to use against their political opposition. It certainly isn’t the fundamental basis for a policy to put pressure on such countries as Iran, Saudi Arabia and others in the Muslim world.

It further demonstrates that in America, politics and gimmicks trump principled policy — sadly Ms. Jabbari was executed with nary a peep from the hypocrites on the Left. Thankfully Meriam Ibrahim, wife of an American citizen and mother of two American children, was rescued by the efforts of the Italians — certainly not a finger was lifted by Obama, nor was there a hashtag campaign by First Lady Obama, heck, not even a mention — nor an invite to the White House.

The real war on women is against those women not deemed politically expedient to the progressive socialist political cause.

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Who are the Kurds?

Who are the Kurds? from Warning Signs by Alan Caruba at Facts-not-Fantasy

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As this is being written there is a battle going on between the Kurds in a Syrian town on the border with Turkey, Kobani, and the Islamic State (ISIS) militants that have seized a large area of northern Syria and Iraq. ISIS is also moving south toward Baghdad.

The only area they have not been able to seize has been Iraq’s Kurdish region which has been virtually autonomous from what is left of the Iraqi government.

While the U.S., Britain and France, along with several Arab states have joined to wage an air battle against the forces of the Islamic State, the success of that effort is limited.

Meanwhile, in Kobani, the Kurds are wondering where is the rest of the world is as they fight to defend themselves. It is an old, oft-asked question as they have a long history of fighting Arabs, Iranians, and Turks who have frequently oppressed them.

So who are the Kurds we have been hearing about as the Islamic State continues its war to conquer the whole of Syria and Iraq?

Some good answers are provided in Reese Erlich’s book, “Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect” ($25.00 Prometheus Books). “Kurds make up an estimated 10% to 15% of Syria’s 22.5 million people. The Kurdish language, culture, and historic territory make them a group distinct from Arabs, but they have become part of multinational Syrian society.” This is a description as well of the Kurds in Iraq and elsewhere.

The Kurds are an ethnic group who live in a sizeable area, though not a national one that borders Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It is referred to as Kurdistan. They have roots in Iran and currently are estimated to number about 30 million people. They are the fourth largest ethnicity in Western Asia after the Arabs, Persians, and Turks. In Iran they are the second largest group. About 55% live in Turkey, 18% each in Iran and Iraq, and a bit over 5% in Syria.

The Kurds are fighting to protect where they live, not for Iraq or Syria, but that has benefited those two nations. They have their own fighting force known as the Peshmerga and reportedly the U.S. has provided arms to assist them. In Iraq, they live in an oil-rich area with what could be considered their capitol city, Kirkuk. In Syria, too, they reside where virtually all of its limited oil is found. The rest is fertile with abundant water.

Given their long history of oppression in the region, it is no surprise that, as Erlich notes, “At the time of the (Syrian) 2011 uprising, most Kurds opposed the Assad dictatorship, but were also highly suspicious of the Arab rebels. Tens of thousands of Kurds fled Syria because of the fighting.” Many crossed the border into Turkey where a large Kurdish population has lived. As of this writing, an estimated 1.5 million Syrians and Kurdish refugees are in Turkey. Turkey’s leader, president Tayyip Erdogan, has been fearful of engaging ISIS militarily and thus far has done nothing.

Erlich notes that “Kurds trace their roots back nearly a thousand years as a nomadic people in the Middle East. Their language and customs are distinct from Arabs, although over time most have adopted Islam…They constitute one of the world’s largest nationalities without a homeland.”

To be a Kurd has been to have been attacked by every nation in which they have resided. If any group deserves to have its own homeland, it’s the Kurds.

In 1920 after World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire “the Allies and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Sevres, which included maps of an autonomous Kurdish region of Turkey and called for a referendum on Kurdish independence with one year.” The newly empowered Turkish nationalists rejected that.

If Turkey crushed hopes of a Kurdish nation, Iran did the same. Reza Shah, Iran’s dictator from 1925 to 1941, brutally suppressed the Kurds who lived mostly in the far northwest of Iran. Briefly in 1945, with Soviet encouragement, the Kurds declared an independent state, but the Soviets decided they wanted better relations with Iran and in 1946 that dream was crushed.

In Syria, they formed the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1957, but it was banned. In 1979 this was repeated in Turkey who regarded it as a terrorist group, imposing martial law in Kurdish areas what wasn’t lifted until 2002. “On March 8, 2004, Iraq adopted the Transitional Administrative Law,” notes Erlich “which formally recognized a semi-independent Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

“Freeing Kurdistan—whatever form that might take—won’t be easy,” says Erlich. “The Syrian government, ultraconservative Arab rebels, and Kurdish groups all want to control the oil fields in the Kurdish region.” As in all of the Middle East, oil is the determining factor regarding who has a right to the area in which it is found.

On January 21, 2014, Kurds declared autonomy in three provinces of northern Syria, but there as elsewhere neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor other Arab groups opposing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad were willing to recognize their right to self-rule. The Obama administration opposed it as well, saying they wanted to see Syria remain united, but the current civil war now in its fourth year gives no indication of that.

This is a very short look at a very long Kurdish history that in the last century and this one continues to be unkind to a group that must continue to fight its enemies—right now ISIS—and this will become part of their history no matter how it turns out.

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