This is the story of Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, an Iranian young lady who was sentenced to death for stabbing and killing the man who attempted to rape her.

After a year of wrangling in the Iranian courts, her verdict was unanimously overturned by the superior court.

It is sad that it even came to that, though. The female victim of rape should always be given the benefit of the doubt, especially in Islamic shari’ah. Iran is a young republic, and it reminds me much of a young America from the time of reconstruction up until the death of Dr. King, when the sons and daughters of enslaved Africans had very few rights. The murder case of Emmit Till is just now being reviewed after all of these years.

The Iranian constitution guarantees the rights of women, so it can only be concluded that the problems in Iranian courts are because of “stupid Persian men” who have enclosed themselves inside a stale, mostly useless bureaucracy. It reminds me of the Vogons from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

People like Malcolm X lost their lives for their willingness to take civil issues to the international community. I imagine many people in Iran have done the same.

It is only unfortunate that America cannot see a little of herself in Iran, a fledgling republic still learning how to be a democracy. Instead, they are vilified and damned to an eventual overthrow and (long overdue) colonization. This while the rights of Americans seem to be on the decline of late.

If only someone would form a university for stupid men (especially stupid white men) and make it mandatory for them to graduate before they can become heads of state and government officials. Then we’d have world peace, and all of the world’s beauty pageant contestants could finally rejoice.

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