99 lashes for no head scarf in a photo!

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.

He said that a prison judge confirmed that she was to be lashed for spreading "corruption and indecency" by the publication of a photograph of her without a headscarf that appeared in a British newspaper.

ziggy wrote:Christian authorities at Salem sentenced witches to being burned at the stake. This prison judge sentenced a scarfless woman to 99 lashes. Paternalism run amuck in the name of religion; same old same old.

ziggy wrote:Yes, I condemn both.

But Christianity still harbors both dormant vestages of male dominance over females, and in some churches still quite active paternalism. Do you condemn that, as well?