"Acts incompatible with chastity."

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Iran has executed a sixteen year old girl for "acts incompatible with chastity," in the northern province of Mazandaran." There are suggestions from the press that the girl may have been mentally retarded, and the Iranian press can find no indication that the girl was competently advised by a lawyer at the hearing where she was condemned.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say, guiltlessly, that that's barbaric. I'm also pleased to see Amnesty International say that multiculturalism is bunk.

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I wonder

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If the reports of her mental capability are tied to her apparent defiance in court? Behavior well outside the social norm is often seen that way (and sometimes mental health is defined in those terms.) It would certainly be in keeping with our own historical perception of women who did not 'keep their place'.