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Iranian stones are more deadly than their uranium

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Amnesty International has reported that "up to nine women and two men in Iran are under sentence of execution by stoning, including one woman who was convicted of adultery and who claimed she was forced into prostitution." Imagine!

Amnesty is calling on the Iranian government for an immediate end to stoning, and has provided an online form through which you can send an e-mail message to the Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Now, you might be sitting there thinking that Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah are just a couple of psychos, and that you'd be wasting your time e-mailing them. Well, they might indeed be psychos, but putting pressure on deranged government officials has worked in the past, as evidenced by the 40,000+ prisoners of conscience who have been freed in the 45 years since Amnesty was founded.

So please speak out. The Iranian government needs to know that the world is watching and that the world is outraged. Help us put an end to stoning.

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Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, and her views (more...)
 

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Anti-civilization! by Dale Hill on Saturday, Nov 18, 2006 at 3:50:21 PM
Killing for God/Jesus/Allah by Mary Shaw on Saturday, Nov 18, 2006 at 4:40:20 PM
What? by larry booth on Saturday, Nov 18, 2006 at 5:38:24 PM
Killing for Jesus by Mary Shaw on Saturday, Nov 18, 2006 at 5:54:40 PM
website by larry booth on Saturday, Nov 18, 2006 at 6:31:54 PM
stones should be thrown at ALL religions by cliff567 on Sunday, Nov 19, 2006 at 3:48:58 AM