December 2008
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Michael Burleigh
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Monday 1st December 2008
This story http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30kristof.html?_r=1 in the New York Times concerns one of the thousands of women who have had acid thrown in their faces in several South Asian Muslim countries after divorcing (or otherwise offending) their husbands.
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elberry
December 1st, 2008
11:12 AM
11:12 AM
Welcome to the Stone Age, AD 2008.
Steve Buckley
December 1st, 2008
1:12 PM
1:12 PM
A news report over the weekend reported a court in Tehran sentencing a young man to be blinded in exactly the same manner for carrying out a similar attack on his fiance. I mean, what century are these people living in?
mburleigh
December 1st, 2008
2:12 PM
2:12 PM
Precisely chaps. I hadn't heard about the Iranian case- thought they just used huge cranes to break the victims necks.
Iranian reader
December 2nd, 2008
9:12 PM
9:12 PM
A variation on the theme, also with a neck-snapping finish:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5263475.ece
Steve Buckley
December 4th, 2008
9:12 AM
9:12 AM
So, let me get this straight: the mass hangings/stranglings by crane in Iran need to be seen in the context of a tragic story of abuse in London involving what appears to be a rather unpleasant family and an insensitive representetive of the Met. Blimey, this relativism thing's a real bugger to grasp aint it, guv?
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