Ameneh

"I have been trying for seven years to get the qisas (retribution) sentence, but today I decided to pardon him." -Ameneh Bahrami, July 31st, 2011

after declining to succumb to the

romantic notions of

mr. majid mohavedi,

Amenah,

a once beautiful Iranian Woman,

ran from him

while he relentlessly stalked her for

two years until he found her &

threw a bucket of acid on her face,

melting all of her physical beauty away &

blinding her

completely in

2004

 

after 17 surgeries,

she is still blind &

she will be for the rest of her life---

mr. mohavedi on the other hand,

still walks with both eyes viewing the world

which she can no longer see

 

good ol’ sharia law,

which was written by mortal MEN,

permits Amenah a qisa

which would have allowed her

to gain payback or “justice”

(if you believe that burning out another’s

eyes would compensate for your own

COMPLETE LOSS OF EYESIGHT & A FACE),

by having acid dropped in his eyes &

at the time of his trial,

she told the court in question that this was

exactly what she wanted

 

the punishment of mohavedi

was originally supposed to take place in

april of 2009,

but was delayed & put off until may of

this year,

when it was postponed indefinitely,

and even if it had occurred,

it should be noted that because the qu’ran states that

a woman is worth half of a man

(“...get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women” qu’ran, 2:282),

even if he had been punished,

he would have only lost ONE EYE

 

today,

Amenah pardoned mohavedi,

so that he will not lose an eye &

while this decision is being hailed by

amnesty international and people around the

world as being the right moral thing to do,

it seems as if the issue of women’s rights & religion has yet again been

circumvented &

the real catalyst of the events of these past 9 years

gets swept under the carpet again

 

the fact remains that if these backward &

violent ideas WRITTEN BY MEN &

PERPETUATED BY MEN

were ceased altogether,

by throwing out beliefs based on a poorly written

work of fiction,

then the women living in the parts of the world

where these ridiculously misogynistic behaviors

still hold dominance

would not have to live uneducated &

with a much shorter life span,

hoping not to get their faces burnt off because they

simply declined a marriage proposal.