Ameneh Bahrami was a happy girl working as an electrical technician for a medical equipment company in Iran. Many men sought her hand in marriage, but she said no to them because she wanted to marry only somebody she loved.
Till 4 years age when one of her spurned suitors was upset with her attitude enough to pour a bucket of sulfuric acid over her head, leaving her blind and disfigured. It was only in November last year that the courts agreed with her demand for retribution by ordering the man be blinded according to Islamic law. An eye for an eye. So the Islamic principle states. The punishment was to be meted out by way of placing 5 drops of sulfuric acid on each eye. This has not been carried out yet.
A barbaric punishment?
You think so?
Take a look at photos of the woman. See how her life, her hopes for a bright future, have totally been destroyed. All because she did not want to marry somebody who demanded for her hand. This animal who deliberately scarred and blinded her for life, so nobody else could or would ever want her.
Disfigured and blinded Iranian Woman: An eye for an eye
Sometimes we wonder whether the question is not whether the punishment was barbaric. It should be whether the punishment was enough.
And yet, to quote Mahatma Ghandi: ” An eye for an eye will make us all blind”
What do you think?
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1 Graham Jones // Sep 1, 2009 at 9:24 am
i have studied many traditions in the iranian culture and a woman of this age blinded by a man she did not want to marry does ward for the man to face the same punnishment. he took her ability to work and to be able to see the world as she grows. i would happily state that i hope the man is blinded in return for acting out of emotion and blinding her.
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