Iran – Three strikes and you’re really out

I just read this news on Foxnews.com. The Iranian Supreme Court vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaged in un-Islamic activities. The men were convicted of a series of killings in the city of Kerman in 2002. The killers stated that they believed that Islam condoned the killing of anyone engaged in un-Islamic activities if they were warned two times before being killed. Apparently the Iranian Supreme Court agreed with the killers. At least 18 people were killed with some of the victims being stoned, suffocated, and in one case buried alive. Believe me I am not making this stuff up. The Supreme Court had overturned the verdict of a lower court that found all the men guilty of murder. However, the killers may still be liable for monetary damages. Again, I am not making this stuff up.

Let me try to put this in context (an impossible task). This would be comparable to the United States Supreme Court ruling that any Christian in the United States was free to kill any Christian who violated any of the ten commandments. Of course you have to warn them two times first. So if you catch your neighbor cheating on his wife or stealing some of your garden tools you are free to kill him for his un-Christian or immoral behavior. It’s a shame our country is not as civilized as Iran apparently is. Just think how much money the U.S. Government could save if they gave every citizen in America a 007 James Bond license to kill. No need for courts, judges, juries, etc., every citizen in American can be judge, jury, and executioner.

When President Bush labeled Iran an Axis of Evil it wasn’t just because they supported terrorism. The Government of Iran is not only a danger to the whole world but apparently to its own people. Iran can throw as many stones at the United States as it wants but none of them can compare to the boulder that this type of policy represents. Of course the good news is that the killers were initially convicted of their crimes but the fact that the Iranian Supreme Court overturned the convictions speaks volumes about the moral corruption of the current regime. This news has nothing to due with Islam, which I am sure does not preach this type of insanity. This is all about extremism and intolerance in a few and does not reflect on the vast majority of the Iranian people nor the vast majority of Muslims. We can only hope that the people of Iran will one day rise up and confront its own government on intolerable behavior like this.