A Eye For A Eye

[caseysmom]

I actually don't see any problem with it, let it be a lesson for others.

She may be able to make tea and a salad but what about her career?

[smokey the elder]

There are many males (I will not refer to them as "human beings") in that part of the world who hate women. They are totally dysfunctional. And people wonder why many Americans fear and hate people from that part of the world.

[lizbud]

I actually don't see any problem with it, let it be a lesson for others.

She may be able to make tea and a salad but what about her career?

I agree with you. Did you see (in the CNN link) her before & after pics?
See was a beautiful young woman. No other punishment would ever have
made sure the guy wouldn't have done the same thing to another woman.

[Medusa]

If it happened to me or to someone I love, I would feel the same way as the victim. For a minute. Then I would come to my senses and realize that the perpetrator should be punished but not in that way. There's got to be another way. I don't know what it is but "an eye for an eye" isn't it. What separates us from them if we commit the same act? This is just an awful crime and my opinion is not meant to minimize the victim's pain and suffering but violence begets violence. Punish him to the fullest extent of the law but do not become what he is.

[shepgirl]

Maybe they believe in the bible where it says "an eye for an eye"? I really don't know how I would feel if I was in her shoes...I certainly would want them to be punished , but how do you punish this act if not in the same way? Over here a jail sentence would be imposed and the guy would be released after serving a third of his sentence, to me that would be so unjust while that poor girl is trapped by blindness till her death. That's a sick person to have committed this kind of act so unless imprisonned for life I think he would do it again. Maybe being blinded will curtail him from repeating?

[blue]

Good for her. In that area of the world women need to stand up like Ameneh Bahrami has.

[lizbud]

Maybe they believe in the bible where it says "an eye for an eye"? I really don't know how I would feel if I was in her shoes...I certainly would want them to be punished , but how do you punish this act if not in the same way? Over here a jail sentence would be imposed and the guy would be released after serving a third of his sentence, to me that would be so unjust while that poor girl is trapped by blindness till her death. That's a sick person to have committed this kind of act so unless imprisonned for life I think he would do it again. Maybe being blinded will curtail him from repeating?

Besides being a punishment for the crime he commited against her, this
just might deter other men from doing the same thing to other women.

Women have very few rights at all in muslim countries & I'm glad she did
get justice in this case. Anybody remember the acid attacks on young
muslim girls on their way to classes ?

[cyber-sibes]

Sounds like justice being served to me.

[Catty1]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/09030..._court_women_1



Iranian Ameneh Bahrami poses in Barcelona holding a photograph of herself before she was blinded by a man who threw acid in her face. An Iranian woman living in Spain who was disfigured and blinded by a man in Iran said Thursday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-eye justice against her assailant.
Photo:Lluis Gene/AFP

Thu Mar 5, 4:14 PM

MADRID (AFP) - An Iranian woman living in Spain who was disfigured and blinded by a man in Iran said Thursday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-eye justice against her assailant.

"The person who did this deserves to go through the same suffering. Only this way will he understand my pain," Ameneh Bahrami told daily newspaper ABC.

"My intention is to ask for the application of the law not just for revenge but also so that no other woman will have to go through this. It is to set an example," the 30-year-old added.

In November an Iranian court ruled that the man -- identified only as Majid -- who admitted blinding Bahrami in 2004 by throwing acid in her face because she rejected his marriage request should also be blinded with acid based on the Islamic law system of "eye-for-an-eye" retribution.

Iran's supreme court confirmed the sentence at the beginning of February.

Bahrami, who moved to Barcelona after the attack to get medical treatment, said the court had originally ruled that she was entitled to have the man blinded in only one eye in Iran because "each man is worth two women".

"But I explained to the judge that with one eye one can still live," she told top-selling newspaper El Pais in another interview.

The court then ruled that the man would be blinded in both eyes if in exchange Bahrami agreed to give up the 20,000 euros (25,000 dollars) which she was set to receive from her assailant's family.

"He will be anesthetized and will not suffer pain. His face will not be disfigured because only a few drops (of acid) will be needed, he will not have the internal injuries which I had," she told ABC when asked if she felt she was less cruel than her aggressor.

"He did not have any compassion when he waited for me for hours outside of my workplace and threw the acid on me," she added.

Bahrami recovered 40 percent vision in her right eye but in 2007 she suffered an infection and became totally blind again.

She says she survives on a rent subsidy of 400 euros per month which she receives from the Spanish government and charity from friends.