Defiance
Jason Kuznicki on Aug 4th 2007
Majid Kavousifar, publicly hanged on Thursday for assassinating a senior judge in Iran’s reprehensible justice system.
More photos of the execution here.
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By all rights, shouldn’t your caption read: …Iran’s reprehensible “justice” system?
After all, there’s so very little of anything having to do with “justice” in the base and degraded state that is Iran…
Yes, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that it was just to hang people for blasphemy, homosexuality, prostitution, or adultery, all of which happen fairly often in Iran. (It’s also frequently an open question whether the individuals involved even performed the act in question.)
I just have been trying to crack down on the scare quotes lately, I guess. Next target: Parentheses.
[...] In fact I have repeatedly posted about the abuses committed by Muslim fundamentalists (here and here, and here, for example). [...]
[...] Other highlights: No, Iran is not innocent. If I were Victor Hugo, I’d write a novel about this guy, whose picture says everything you need to know about the “Islamic Republic” of Iran. And no, being reflexively anti-anti-anti-military doesn’t make you “pro” anything, particularly not pro-liberty. Oh yeah, and Butler writes: As I observed media coverage of the government’s assault on the Mormon sect’s property at El Dorado, Texas, I was struck by the fact that the description being offered of the church’s facilities and activities paralleled those of military installations. [...]