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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on June 30, 2012 at 9:11am

Lovely ... hits over her kidneys ... renal failure, anyone?  [not that her torturers care...]

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Permalink Reply by mark d on June 30, 2012 at 10:17am

Have you got a source for this? Otherwise it's just an unpleasant picture of a woman who has been beaten.

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 30, 2012 at 3:11pm

I think either DailyBeast or HuffPost. Or a re-post from Facebook for all I can remember.

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Permalink Reply by mark d on June 30, 2012 at 3:45pm

http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mi6UKgn1c6

She was beaten for being a lesbian. Just as barbaric.

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 30, 2012 at 6:02pm

Well of course she would have been beaten for being a lesbian: same sex oriented people are mostly out of the baby business (unless they adopt) and cannot be a part of one's harem. Men make all the rules in Islam and Shariah condemns women to a lifetime of being only slightly more worthless than fundamentalist Xian women ("helpmates").  When you stop and think about it, this is why Mitt is against the equal pay act. Or is he?  With Mitt it will depend on whether he has talked to his handlers.

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Permalink Reply by Zengineer on June 30, 2012 at 12:57pm

At the risk of causing incident, Iran usually declares atheists mentally unfit, puts a straight jacket on them, inject them with drugs, and toss them in a padded room till they say they are muslim, then they are declared to have recovered mentally. Personally, I think any atheist in the middle east who comes out into the open should be hospitalized, as it's practically a suicide by proxy attempt. It might be ridiculous to believe in fairy tales, but it is even more ridiculous to declare yourself a non-believer when a religion has executive power.

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 30, 2012 at 1:38pm

These are the same things Stalin did to Russians who spoke out against his brand of communism.  That, and pushing them out windows and claiming suicide.

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Permalink Reply by Zengineer on June 30, 2012 at 5:07pm

Sadly, the only thing that can be done is people risking their lives and setting up safe-houses, maybe some sort of program where gay men can enter a mock marriage with a lesbian, it's far from ideal but we really don't have many other options.

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