I saw this in Bhikkhu Bodhi's facebook and would like to share his message.
'15 people are on death row awaiting death by stoning in Iran, but yesterday a woman was saved from this brutal killing by a massive international campaign. Global voices of condemnation saved her. Now I just signed an urgent petition to the Iranian government to put an end this sickening brutality once and for all and I thought you would want to join me.'
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_stoning/?rc=fbwt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
With metta,
Andrew
Petition to stop stoning
Petition to stop stoning
Meditate, don't be negligent, lest you may later regret it!
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done!
I once watched on TV just a few seconds of the stoning of an Afghani teenage girl, who fell in love with a man from the wrong Muslim faith. ( I think)
I then saw more in a Youtube video and was more than shocked.
She was not buried, but lying on the marketplace.
A crowd of men had undressed her, so she was completely naked.
Her once beautiful face was bleeding, battered, bashed in, flat, almost like a pancake from stones thrown at her, but she was still alive and moving, slowly trying to roll over...it's impossible to find words for her suffering. The men angrily shook their fists into the sky. No compassion.
I had a few very angry moments that lasted for several weeks.
I'm glad I can sign a petition against stoning and hope that many more will too.
I once watched on TV just a few seconds of the stoning of an Afghani teenage girl, who fell in love with a man from the wrong Muslim faith. ( I think)
I then saw more in a Youtube video and was more than shocked.
She was not buried, but lying on the marketplace.
A crowd of men had undressed her, so she was completely naked.
Her once beautiful face was bleeding, battered, bashed in, flat, almost like a pancake from stones thrown at her, but she was still alive and moving, slowly trying to roll over...it's impossible to find words for her suffering. The men angrily shook their fists into the sky. No compassion.
I had a few very angry moments that lasted for several weeks.
I'm glad I can sign a petition against stoning and hope that many more will too.
Last edited by Annapurna on Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done.
I don't even have the words for how much the idea of stoning a person to death bothers me.
I don't even have the words for how much the idea of stoning a person to death bothers me.
"To reach beyond fear and danger we must sharpen and widen our vision. We have to pierce through the deceptions that lull us into a comfortable complacency, to take a straight look down into the depths of our existence, without turning away uneasily or running after distractions." -- Bhikkhu Bodhi
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus
- Modus.Ponens
- Posts: 3853
- Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:38 am
- Location: Gallifrey
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done.
The wonders of Sharia.
The wonders of Sharia.
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
Re: Petition to stop stoning
The whales got more reactions here......
- retrofuturist
- Posts: 27848
- Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:52 pm
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Contact:
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done.
Thanks for the heads up, Andrew.
Metta,
Retro.
Thanks for the heads up, Andrew.
Metta,
Retro.
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Re: Petition to stop stoning
I have added mine.
Re: Petition to stop stoning
Done.
I really can't understand what is stoning for, it's so unnecessary to inflict such pain.
I really can't understand what is stoning for, it's so unnecessary to inflict such pain.
Re: Petition to stop stoning
I signed but I didn't comment. I suspect that this is the case with many on the forum.Annapurna wrote:The whales got more reactions here......
Besides, these are people being stoned, so I doubt there would be any among us that would say "well, maybe this is not so big a deal..." or "the importance of this is ambiguous..." So, since the evilness of stoning is (likely) widely agreed upon there seems to me less cause for comment, except to say "Awww, that's no good!" Which is true, but not very helpful nor insightful.