Could they get more evil:
A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex. The court dismissed the girl’s claim that we was raped… The girl was sentenced to 100 lashes… The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each.
I’m sure that the DNA swab and physical evidence that the mullahs no doubt examined before dismissing the girl’s claims were carefully examined and prepared by a professional rape counselor. But ignore for a second this stomach-turning case study in blaming the victim: the mullahs concluded that the sex was consensual and THEN sentenced the girl to 100 lashes. Because 75 lashes just wouldn’t have done the trick apparently (although 30 lashes – that’ll teach the rapists!) The rest of the article helpfully provides some context:
Under Iranian law, girls over the age of nine and boys over 16 face the death penalty for crimes such as rape and murder, while capital punishment can be imposed in certain cases of illegal sexual relationships.
First of all, and this is neither here nor there, but “the death penalty” and “capital punishment” mean the same thing. So the lesson here is, if you’re a 9 year old Iranian girl who’s been raped, don’t try to get out of your 100 lashes by saying that it was consensual – otherwise they’ll kill you. What was it like to be in the meeting where that law was made: “my fellow mullahs, our threats of beheading have persuaded all men 16 and above not to hold women’s hands in public. But there is a plague of 9 and 10 year old girls who are still seducing older men. This is unacceptable, and those girls must be punished!”
