The Jerusalem Post interviews a family man whose life in a law enforcement officer has left him with a few regrets:
Explaining how he had come to join the volunteer Basiji forces, he said his mother had taken him to them.
When he was 16, “my mother took me to a Basiji station and begged them to take me under their wing because I had no one and nothing foreseeable in my future. My father was martyred during the war in Iraq and she did not want me to get hooked on drugs and become a street thug. I had no choice,” he said.
He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.”
In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard – essentially raped by her “husband.”
“I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said.
Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?”
“Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.
“I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”
Returning to the events of the last few weeks, and his decision to set free the two teenage detainees, he said he “honestly” did not know why he had released them, a decision that led to his own arrest, “but I think it was because they were so young. They looked like children and I knew what would happen to them if they weren’t released.”
He said that while a man is deemed “responsible for his own actions at 13, for a woman it is 9,” and that it was freeing the 15-year-old girl that “really got me in trouble.”
I’ve bookmarked the interview, and I intend to read it periodically over the next 3 1/2 years whenever I’m tempted to think Barack Obama is more misguided than evil.
Via Grim, via Cassandra.
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I have seen this in the news for a few days first at Atlas Shrugs and then in other places and then I saw it today on Yahoo! news. I read the whole thing each time and it makes me weep inside. To think we want to deal with people such as this, that we should be tolerant of evil such as this, that we should respect a level of barbarism such as this is unfathomable. Compromise with Islam means more of this, and more beheadings, more evil, death, short, brutal lives. I say no. No aid or comfort to the enemy because this evil is our enemy. Show it no quarter and fight against it.
And yet, large swaths of feminists will support the Anointed One, who does nothing in the face of this evil, because he will preserve their access to legal abortions.
The leadership of the NOW are abortion whores. It’s just that simple.