***Absolutely outstanding. This is how they deal with sluts in Iran. If there’s one thing I fully respect in iranians it is their unbendable will to preserve their root morals and wisdom. Take a minut and just think. In the West a prostitute is given full exemption of expressing her lies in a court to send any decent male citizen to prison. In islamic morals, they fully protect comely citizens from this kind of people, keeping their people away from lust and debauchery, as well as all drifts from there arising. What is our freedom about in the West when women are free to prostitute theyreselves, give me a break, is that something to be proud of. Iranian’s steadfast politics preserves them from western degeneration.

This is one reason I have been against a number of “humanitarian” missions. We tie down our military (Kosovo, any one?), maybe help but often not, and meanwhile barbarity breaks out somewhere else.

Other than my own comments, I haven’t heard here about the Genocide in southern Sudan. Currently the people’s paradise of Vietnam is carrying out a de-Christianization campaign among the Montagnaards, which is just a cover for genocide. When did you last hear about this?

Similar activities are in Myranmar. Venezuela is sliding down the slope to communist tyranny. How about mourning the opposition people recently shot to death? Their families are bereaved.

Let’s face it, the world is full of brutal regimes. It is the nature of man that can only be overridden by a complex correllation of ideas and forces.

please tell me why exporting US values is wrong.

Please tell me why people who hang a 16 year old–a girl–for sport–deserve a seat at the world’s table.

please tell me about the numerous Op-Eds being formulated on the left to decry this tragedy.

please tell me why hurting this regime would be bad.

please tell me why there is a distinct lack of outrage in European academic and journalistic circles about the men who kill 16 year olds.

please tell me how these so-called religous leaders are any different from the SS.

Please don’t insult the rest of us by comparing the death penalty to this barbaric “law.” Executing a man who rapes a young girl is nothing like executing a girl for participating in consenual premartial sex. And it’s certainly not the same as executing her for insulting the judge. Are you saying that if we found Bin Laden alive we shouldn’t execute him for his crimes?

Pretty cogent stuff.

There is much hypocrisy displayed by all when it comes to “Who, whom”.

In this case, a defenseless person (reportedly a 16 year old girl) was hung for having a “sharp tongue”. Here we see what Hayek referred to as the difference between the “Rule of Law” and the tyranny of “legality” when coercive and used by the totalitarian State.

And more to the point, this episode should (but will not) serve as yet another “wake-up call” to all those in this country and the EU who march along side the Islamists decrying US “hegemony, barbarity, and imperialism.”

Back to Hayek, his thesis of economic control (“Planned Economies, ie Socialism”) leading to totalitarianism, is directly paralled (and in fact, proves this axiom more powerfully) by the example of State religious control and planning leading to totalitarianism.

Whether or not to raze the shrine (or all of Fallujah and Najaf for that matter) I will leave to our military experts.

But I concede that you are right on this point, political correctness, in all its forms and ways, seems to be blind to real suffering when it is warranted, and fixated on minutae when it is both illogical and meaningless to do so.

Sigh.

Unlike you though, I’m sorry for that girl.

It doesn’t make me better, or you worse that I do, just different.

Merde.

On the basis of JUST this comment,may I say that your basic intelligence might be subject to some debate?