Stoning Averted for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, Iran's Alleged Adultress

Its shocking to see how the world thinks of Islam...These countries do follow Shaaria law, but Shaaria law is in depth and deep! One cannot judge the religion based on how the country has adapted its laws as many have "changed" the Sharia Law. Sharia law states that for someone to be termed an adulteress there must be FOUR witnesses to prove that they have seen the offense been committed. How unlikely is this? That there will be four people to see the actual act being done, Highly, highly unlikely. If there were four witnesses then only can the offender be stoned. therefore this case is not following Sharia law! And rightfully this women should not be stoned as the evidence is not substantial. That too there are certain protocols that must be followed if she had to be stoned...another thing is that these people know the consequences of their actions in their country, its like how if we had to commit murder we will be sentenced to jail. We know the consequence so we wont murder someone. In their country Adultery is a crime. They should leave the country if they not happy with its laws if they do not wish to be persecuted then they should not break the laws. its as simple as that.

Finally someone in Iran got the message that they DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES WITH THEIR FANATICAL SHARIA LAW!! I am soooo Happy that this lady will have the right to live and continue her life hopefully here in America under political asylum where she can have freedom once again. I can't take this crap anymore and we as the strongest nation in the world should step up and do something about this ignorant stupid law. I hope one day we get the courage to do what needs to be done and bring freedom to all people around the world.

@jancf:
I agree with you that it is wrong to extrapolate to arrive at facts based on a few sensationlist facts.

Since you claimed "ignorance is never an excuse...", I found your comment mentioning India and Indonesia in the same breath and how Bollywood wouldn't have flourished (Bollywood as a litmus test for liberty! Haha! Even Indian politicians don't use that!), very amusing.

First, the last that I checked (it's quite easy because I live in India), India is not an Islamic country nor is it bound by Shariah. So, using that as a foundation of your argument, while calling on others to check on their facts, is quite hypocritical.

This primitive and barbaric way of dealing with an adultress could only emanate from a philosophy still mired in the Dark Ages. Adultery is a human weakness and as such is not a crime to be dealt with judicialy. The Iranian government has shown its disregard for life and for compassion; Islam continues to prove it has no place in the modern world by its dogma and disregard for its own adherents. Islam bears an attitude to we, the "infidels", that hardly bears thinking about.

And what happened to the man(men) who supposedly committed adultery with her? We have heard nothing of them. If she is guilty of adultery, she did not commit it alone! That being said, this is another one of those archaic, inhumane forms of punishment that is listed in the Book of Leviticus in the Bible, not just an Islamic teaching.

The abuses of the capitalist world have led to the enlightenment of the fundamentalists everywhere. I'm not saying we, the USA are to fault, but our actions in the past have led to their rise, eg: The Shah, Manual Noriega, one time support of Saddam Hussein, the falsehood of The SE Asia Treaty Pact with regard to Vietnam, our continued denial of Cuba while we trade freely with communist Vietnam and China, NAFTA versus Immigration, and/or The Marcos' of the Philippines. The list list goes on but all we have to do is look at what we do to see why others don't care for us. Will we ever wake up?

..........show me a backward country and I'll show you a country that demeans and undereducates its women. When women have self worth and can be educated I'll show you women who push their children to succeed.

she is gorgeous! so happy she gets to live!!

I must have missed the part in the article where Obama called out the Irani government for their completely ignoring basic human rights with their stone age Sharia law punishments. Probably too busy cleaning up the spill.

how come you never hear anything about the man.