Iranian Court Orders Man To Be Blinded By Acid

TEHRAN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid under Iran's Islamic law, a newspaper said on Thursday.

An Iranian court made the ruling on Wednesday based on the system of "qisas" or fair retribution, Etemad-e Melli reported.

The man identified as Majid proposed several times but was spurned by the woman, identified as Ameneh, the daily reported. In revenge, he threw acid in her face as she left her work in 2004, it added.

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Comments

[wadenelson1]

Barbaric. But perhaps it will have the desired deterrent effect on other men.

I'm sure this sort of nonsense has been going on for centuries, and it is only the advent of the Internet that enables us to read about it.

Or at least as long as there have been automobile batteries around from which to extract acid.

It convinces me, beyond a doubt, that Christianity is a better solution to many of society's, and the world's problems than Islam precisely because it REJECTS an eye for an eye type revenge, or "justice."

Or maybe not, considering the continuing escalation of violent crime in this country.

[Phaedrus21]

Please don't feed the trolls...