"Blinded woman demands eye-for-eye justice"
Iranian welcomes harsh punishment for suitor who blinded her with acid
MADRID - An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid.
Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man — identified only as Majid — who blinded Bahrami in 2004 after she spurned him, should also be blinded with acid based on the Islamic law system of "qisas," or eye for an eye retribution, according to Iranian newspaper reports from November.
But Bahrami, who moved to Spain after the attack to get medical treatment, said Wednesday that under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind him in only one eye, unless she pays $25,110, because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.
What sort of 'social contract' are we fooling ourselves with when a man feels justified in blinding a woman for refusing his sexual advances?
What sort of 'justice' are we pretending is dispensed from a court system that legally decides on an acid-blinding as an appropriate response?
And what sort of balance is there in only allowing one eye to be burned, since she's "just a woman"?
We are the strangest of animals.
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