Does it take you forever to remove a thief’s fingers? Are you tired of the unsightly mess it leaves behind? Ever wished there was a handy device to simplify your job as an Iranian Finger Removal Engineer? Wait no more:
Iran has purportedly unveiled its latest method of punishing convicted criminals — a rudimentary machine that amputates the fingers of thieves.
The images, which were released last week by Iran’s ISNA news service, depict three masked officials holding the convicted man’s right hand in a vice as another turns the guillotine much like a rotary saw. The unidentified prisoner had been convicted of theft and adultery by a court in Shiraz last Wednesday.
With elections scheduled for June, an Iranian human rights group expects to see more public executions and more vicious corporal punishments like this to serve as a warning to would-be protestors.
So we know the punishment for theft, what was the punishment for adultery? I know for the woman it usually means death by stoning (even if she wasn’t a willing participant in the “adultery”.
All in favor, show of hands.
Doggone it. I thought Mr. Obama had gone and given someone else the middle finger, by your headline. No way would he do that to the Mullahs. That is reserved for Republicans and the American people no less. Oh well. Got my attention though.
I’m going to wait until Apple’s version comes out — the iFinger.
Who says the Islamic world is technologically challenged?