Eighty lashes for drinking and for extramarital sex. In Iran. In the name of Islam."Come watch! It's a flogging! Flogging!"
Two police officers hold the legs of 25-year-old Saeed Ghanbari and another his arms to ensure there is no escape from the punishment of 80 lashes handed down by a religious court.
Traffic was brought to a halt in Qazvin, 90 miles west of the capital Tehran, as more than 1,000 men gathered behind barricades to watch the public flogging.
Some took pictures on mobile telephones, others climbed traffic lights for a better vantage point as Ghanbari was marched to the centre of the square under the watch of blue-uniformed guards carrying machine guns.
A four foot long metal bench was taken from a police van and the convicted man was made to lie on it on his stomach, his fawn checked shirt pulled-up to his shoulders to expose his back and waist.
Sharia Law's a bitch, ain't it? And Islamic fascists want to implement it everywhere on earth.
This is what happens to people in Iran. Even a mere accusation of wrongdoing is all it takes to get you whipped, whipped, whipped...
Now, wouldn't it be a good idea to go over there, remove the tyrants from power and liberate these poor people from this kind of thing?
Oh, and by the way, they hang folks in Iran... for being homosexuals. So I hope the "progressives" in the Free World are listening very carefully, now... if they really care.
