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Here is a blog publishing the photos about Iran's northern province, Gilan. It lies along the Caspian Sea.
Gahneveshteaye Ali writes [fa] that Green Movement demonstrated in New York both against war and dictatorship. The Iran based media preferred to ignore them.Watch the photos here.
Several bloggers reported that Mehdi Khazali, a blogger and publisher was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The blogger was sentenced to 90 lashes too. He can appeal this sentence.
Iranian sources say [fa] that Saudi Arabia has blocked Iran Leader's site Khamenei.ir. This sources says this website is blocked because of Ayatollah Khamanei's remarks on “Islamic Arab Spring”. Iranian user on Friendfeed believes [fa]: This could be a start for a cyber-war between Iran and Arabia.
Greek blogger Asteris Masouras compiles a Storify round up of reactions and coverage following Wednesday's deadly Port Said clashes, which left more than 70 people dead in Egypt.
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May God forgive her for deserting herself and her family as she has done, Insha’allah many people will take a lesson from her misguided actions. It is also illegal in South Korea to commit adultery, though the penalty is only 2 years imprisonment. Shockingly people can get away with such a thing so lightly in some parts of this world, even when it is properly listed as a crime.
I don’t believe in the God who is after killing His own sons and daughters even if they sin gravely. I believe in the loving and merciful God – the God who loves and forgives all humans radically and unconditionally.
Jesus in the Gospels teaches us about the love of God and love of one another. He even says we should forgive others as many times as possible (symbolically 7×70). He forgave Mary Magdalene who was brought to him after she was found committing adultery and Mary was not stoned to death.
He told her, “Where are your accusers? Neither do I condemn you. Go and don’t sin again.” He also forgave his own executors, saying, “Father forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing.”
If God were as harsh to us as we do to our fellow brothers and sisters who would survive? Scriptures have been written in a certain literary style that needs careful analysis and interpretation. We don’t need to interpret them literary, otherwise we fall into fundamentalism and lose meaning.
I’m sorry for the lady who will be stoned to death. For me that doesn’t teach me anything, it just shows how cruel and unforgiving we are to one another.
Being Christian, I might be out of place to comment on such cruel penalty. But each time I hear of capital executions that deny others forgiveness and reform I don’t understand. I get confused!
Why can’t the lady be given time to repent if she has committed adultery or did she say she will never repent? Does it mean that those who will stone the lady to death have never sinned? Let’s shun hypocrisy and may the love and tender heartedness of God permeate through us.