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Iranian Woman Blinded, Disfigured by Acid Spares Attacker the Same Fate

Iranian Woman Blinded by Acid Spares Attacker

Amenah Bahrami was disfigured and blinded when Majid Movahedi threw acid in her face in 2004. She spared her attacker the same fate. (AP File Photo)

TEHRAN, Iran (The Blaze/AP) — An Iranian woman who was blinded by a suitor who threw acid on her face has pardoned her attacker at the last minute, sparing him from being blinded by acid as retribution.

Iranian state television broadcast footage Sunday of Ameneh Bahrami in the operating room with her attacker, Majid Mohavedi, who was on his knees waiting for her to drop acid in his eyes as punishment.

Bahrami said she has forgiven Mohavedi and pardoned him. State TV showed Mohavedi weeping and saying Bahrami was “very generous.”

Mohavedi poured acid on Bahrami’s face in 2004 for rejecting his marriage proposal, disfiguring her face and leaving her blind in both eyes.

CNN reported:

“I was just yelling, ‘I’m burning! I’m burning! For God’s sake, somebody help me,’ ” she said.

The acid seeped into her eyes, and streamed down her face into her mouth. When she covered her face with her hands, streaks of acid ran down her fingers and onto her forearms.

Bahrami had demanded qisas, or “eye for an eye”-style justice, allowed under Shariah law. A 2008 Iranian court order agreed with her, ruling she would be allowed to pour the corrosive chemical in Mohavedi’s eyes as retribution.

Iranian Woman Blinded by Acid Spares Attacker

She was quoted on Iranian television saying, “I never wanted to have revenge on him. I just wanted the sentence to be issued for retribution. But I would not have carried it out. I had no intention of taking his eyes from him.”

Bahrami told the Iranian Students’ News Agency that she also chose to forgive Mohavedi for her country, “since all other countries were looking to see what we would do.”

“God talks about qisas in the Koran but he also recommends pardon since pardon is greater than qisas and I wanted to do a greater job,” she said.

According to the BBC, Amnesty International had lobbied against the sentence, calling it “cruel and unusual punishment amounting to torture.”

Bahrami’s mother said she was proud of her daughter: “Ameneh had the strength to forgive Majid. This forgiveness will calm Ameneh and our family.”

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:47am

    SAY you forgive this man or we pore more acid on your face.
    Iranian state television propaganda machine

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:49am

      She had better be careful, he will now want to kill her so he no longer has to support her. Islam is a kind religion.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:30pm

      .
      Iran must be getting soft.
      In the “good old days” she would have been stoned for
      accusing a man.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Spot on analysis. This is propaganda. She was told what to do.

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    • FuturePresident
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:51pm

      If this is really true. This is a tale of forgiveness that we should all take from. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. Its the golden rule that Americans have known since the beginning of our country. This country has know charity and peace before. I want to bring it back to that point. Give me liberty.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:51pm

      Why do we support this continual campaign of propaganda against the Nation of Iran? Of course our ZOG is attempting to persuade the American people into supporting a strike against Iran. Now having acid poured into someone’s eyes is simply one of the most horrific things imaginable on earth; however, we have our own violence issues to deal with in America which by any imaginable means of measurement far exceeds any other Nation’s. For example why not focus on the 10s of thousands of accounts of violent interracial crimes perpetrated each year in America? Not only is it not a topic of discussion in the Media, the Media actually attempts to hide the problem and deceive our people on the matter.

      I suggest we mind our own business and turn our attention to our very own real problems in our very own country.

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    • Classical Liberal
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:31pm

      I hate to think the worst but it does seem like classic propaganda. I like to think that she chose to forgive him though.

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:41pm

      Maybe she should have taken one of his eyes out, as a reminder that actions have consequences.

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    • sodacrackers2
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:45pm

      At first I thought she was just a strong woman but in thinking about it, why did they have to televise it? It probably was the ultimate propaganda tool. A man can do this to a woman for just rejecting him, and the woman, to be a good person, forgives him. When will the msm get over their “tolerance” of Islam? Will they wait until we have “Sharia Law” zones in America? It is not so far away unless we rid DC of all the socialist in 2012. Socialists and Islamists use each other for their own purposes at the peril of the entire world. If and when America goes, there will be no free place on earth except Israel, and they are surrounded by those who hate them. May God help us all.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 2:00pm

      What did Jesus teach?? What would Jesus have done? What did Jesus do for all of us?? He suffered the sins of the world, yours, mine and everyones! She is a remarkable woman! She will be blessed! And the man who she could have harmed wept and said, “Bahrami was generous”!

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:16pm

      No I believe the gernerous ones were the men of Iran…do you think for one minute they would of allowed this woman to harm this man on state tv…don’t think so…I feel sorry for this woman, not only was she horribly harmed, now she has to play the role of submissive woman, no matter what a man does to you..in other words, this whole story is bogus! This whole thing is bahrami’s fault, or whoever the heck he is!!

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    • christos
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:40pm

      @ JOHN 3:16 -Touting scripture as your user name,but yet speaking revenge in your post,no she should not have taken his eye out that is revenge–Scripture tells us not to take revenge that is in the old Testament–what did +JESUS+ say about revenge vengeance is the +LORDS+ saith the +LORD+

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:19pm

      Exodus 21:24: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

      Her abuse was tragic beyond human comprehensions, but she proved herself more a believer in the word’s of Christ than a an Old Testament Christian or any of those who believe the Bible is the literal word of God. Her choice showed her Christianity in a way I hope none of us ever face. Maybe she’s a saint?

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:05pm

      Ban, never thought of that, wowwee. You bring this story to a whole new light, you are right, say you forgive or you die, real story here is that on the poor Israilies and the westerns, we wont get the same treatment, since we are infidels.

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    • uusecommonsense
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 1:08am

      Yep, look at the smirk on the smug bass-turd’s face in the picture on the front page. He looks like tha cat that ate the canary, or is that the goat that ate the imam, whichever…

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    • Favored93
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 3:15am

      This is the first time I have heard a Muslim talk about Mercy.
      That is the most Godly thing I think I have ever seen!
      WOW!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:21pm

      @JZS………….You need to read it in context
      Exodus 21: 26 and 27 it’s talking about compensations. The slave is set free in compensation for their injuries. ………….equal justice not social justice. A slave is someone who is paying off a debt and in some cases decides to stay after the debt is paid.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:42am

    That‘s why muslim men love burka’s, they can abuse their women and children. The men are NEVER held accountable….. I hope that all the communist lovers here in America are the first to order their burkas, people like jeannine, joy behar and rosie that hate this country and our freedoms would look in black and we wouldn’t have to look at their angry faces.

    God Bless America and Israel

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  • Sovereigntist
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:36am

    I’d have poured the acid on him right after I choked him to death. An eye for an eye? I believe in overwhelming, over-compensatory shock and awe ‘nucular’-type retribution that brings tears of blood to the eyes of those that have even a mere fleeting thought about offending me.
    That’s just the way I roll, though.

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  • stage9
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:32am

    Don’t look now, but she’s becoming a Christian.

    “Love your enemies, do good to those who persecute you.”

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    • Gamaliel
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:04pm

      This was my reaction. I hope it is what really happened and that this was not propaganda!

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  • mikeg75
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:18am

    She should have gone thru with it or the authorities should have for her for no other reason than to serve as a deterent to other who would think about or consider throwing acid on a women like that. This type of thing happens all the time in these countries. What now? Does the guy just get a total free pass?

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:47am

      He should be sent to an American prison to serve out his time. A few years in an American rape machine state prison would teach him his lesson.

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    • Mainer forever
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:11am

      An American prison is WAY TOO NICE of a place for THIS guy. He needs to be in a third world hell hole of a prision. Like a Mexican prison.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:14am

    God speaks of no such things. mohammid CLAIMS God told HIM these things. That’s the problem with the koran. There are no other historical foundation or corroborations from a hippocrite pedophole, war mongering mass murderer!
    Maybe mohammid was speaking to the Devil pretending to be God?

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    • mils
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:49am

      no religious books have concrete evidence…however, i do agree with you. if you are born into a faith/religion, i can fully understand embracing it no questions asked…many people do this every day..however, it’s those that willingly accept with blind allegiance any faith that i question

      I do not know if i would have been so merciful. he should be ordered to support this woman for the rest of her life, and care for her mercifully.

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:13am

    It happened in 2004. Did she just now make the decision to not throw acid in his face or is this just manipulation of the Muslin press like KICKAGRANDMA has suggested.

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  • One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:11am

    wow., I couldn‘t have done what she did although I wouldn’t have poured acid in his eyes either…I would have thrown it all over his face too.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:10am

    Does no one in Iran know that you flush an acid spill with water, and if you do this immediately, there is almost no damage?

    Or do they not have running water in Iran still?

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:09am

    One sane voice in an insane country

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:14pm

      One sane voice that you know of. Unless you are in favor of judging an entire people based on their government. I doubt most tea partiers would appreciate being judged based on Barack Obama.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:09am

    Americans drop acid, Iranians pour it.

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    • Conservative Hippy
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:41am

      I’ve seen people drop acid in their eyes. They said it was pretty intense. I always just ate it on sugar cubes.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:02am

    Good prevails were evil is abound. Good story.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:10am

      Indeed, I can understand the motivation she had behind all parts of this story; she wanted the decree of justice delivered unto him for his crimes against her, and then showed the spirit of mercy at the last minute to the one who so horribly wronged her.

      I wonder how many people of any of the world faiths would have done as she did?

      In my case, if this was the one who cost me my own eye as well as the other stuff he did in my youth I do not honestly know if I could have been as merciful; I would hope so, and pray so, yet the fact the doubt still remains is troubling…I do not know.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:52pm

      I’m impressed. She’s closer to the KIngdom of God than all the people wishing she would have carried out the sentence. Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. There must be a Christian influence in her life somehow.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:06pm

      @Snowleopard
      70×7…because thats how many times our flesh will cause it to rise up.
      Btw, nice gallary.

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  • affinnity
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:56am

    Why is this woman wasting her life being a Muslim? She’s a good person and needs to stop associating with these evil people.

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    • ScienceIsNotEvil
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:58pm

      She could become Christian of course if she did that she would have to kill disobedient kids (Deuteronomy 21:18-21), kill gays (Leviticus 20:13), kill atheists (2 Chronicles 15:12-13), kill nonvirgins (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) and kill anyone of another religion (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)

      As a Christian she would be a member of a much more peaceful religion, would not she be?

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    • joe1234
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:50pm

      hey gomer…err I mean ‘scienceISevil

      those are in the OT judaic law…I would say get a clue, but you’re probably too busy bowing down at the altar of your racist god darwin.

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    • ScienceIsNotEvil
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:04pm

      joe1234,

      So the unchanging god changed his mind? And if they aren’t enforced anymore why do so many Christians preach as if they are?

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    • Consentiondum
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:31pm

      @Sciencesinotevil

      Didn’t you know, since the coming of Jesus you get to pick and choose which parts of the OT are most convenient for you!

      In all fairness though, the reason is that the particular laws and prohibitions you speak of fall under the “old covenant” that GOD made with the Jewish people. A lot of it was a means of establishing the Jewish identity. Since the purported coming of Christ there was an institution of a new and final covenant (final I suppose only if you’re not a Mormon) with GOD and all people–not just the Jews. The new covenant supersedes the old one.

      I believe it is somewhere in Mathew that Jesus even says that it is what comes out of your body (words and actions) that are unclean, not what goes in your body.

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    • joe1234
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:47pm

      @scienceISevil…the Lord doesn’t change His mind…but the law was for a given time and a given people…notice He didn’t give the law to abraham, now did He? oh and Jesus said He FULFILLED the law…

      fulfill:
      a: to put into effect : execute
      b: to meet the requirements of (a business order)
      c: to bring to an end
      d: to measure up to : satisfy

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    • schmite123oh
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:02am

      @scienceisevil-nice references,i dont understand your point however, are you defending “disobedient kids” who are described as if having no concern for anyone else but themselves, real anarchists who wont listen to anybody. Makes sense to me to rid society of those people, but thou shall not murder is also a commandment, and although you have cause to stone thats only if you have not broken the commandments which all have done. leviticus is talking about homsexuality and many other things that I’m sure you would not support (beastiality for one) chronicles emphasis those who do not seek the lord, whether you are put to death on earth or later in the afterlife is a matter of repentence, if you resist even seeking the lord which is also Jesus mind you, death will surely be your reward. the non-virgin part makes sense because a woman who does that is causing others to sin & gives them death. Another Religion part, he is refering to those who try to draw you away from the true and living God. You would do better to understand scripture does not contradict, most of the points you refer to ignore other parts of scripture that add, key word add, never takes away,always adds to the law and commandments. My passage to you if you even re-read this post but if others see maybe this would be good to hear. Matthew 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Gods word is True, and Good. Repent!!!!

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    • Greenwood
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 7:41pm

      @SCIENCE_guy…………Honor your father and your mother in order that your days may prove long…….

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  • wildturkeywatcher
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:55am

    May God bless Ameneh and all her family. May all the challenges she faces as a result of her injuries be minimized in all ways possible.

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  • KusoJiJi
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:53am

    Very commendable of her unfortunately there are still iranian women who will buried up to their chests and stoned to death for adultery. Good PR move by Iran though.

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  • ramburner
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:49am

    Pray for her, that God will also have compassion on her and someone will show her the truth behind the Gospel of Christ; that she might be saved through Christ, and we might meet in Heaven one day. Her heart already is a witness of Light. That kindness needs to become the Light in the middle east that changes history. May God Bless her for what she has done.

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    • 4BlueStars
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:31am

      Amen!

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    • NatalieF
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Great post!

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    • ScienceIsNotEvil
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:00pm

      Have you read the Bible? It is fully of commandments to kill those who think differently than god or who worship other religions. To claim it is a peaceful book is an admission that one hasn’t really read it.

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    • joe1234
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:51pm

      scienceISevil…perhaps you should read it before you make a bigger fool out of yourself….

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    • ScienceIsNotEvil
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:05pm

      I have read it. It is full of horrible horrible things done to innocents for things that are not their fault. A just leader doesn’t punish innocents.

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    • joe1234
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:44pm

      Innocents?? who is innocent? besides your racist eugenicist god darwin that is?

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    • Cesium
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:22pm

      http://www.evilbible.com/

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    • joe1234
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:27am

      @cesium..the self-professed ‘jew’ says his own bible is evil…too funny….

      still think cancer proves evolution is true?? LOL

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    • NOLAexpat
      Posted on August 1, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Wow, how’d we get to evolution from this story? Oh well might as well comment. Ever amaze you how many people that are absolutely positive evolution is right have never even read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species? It‘s so absurdly childish and simple given today’s knowledge of recombinant DNA that it would be impossible to make an argument for even the simplest adaptation, much less full evolution. Darwin couldn’t even explain how a 4-toed lizard became a 3-toed lizard but the folks who haven’t even read the silly thing assume it explains how inorganic became organic. I guss the lightning bolt theory just works for them.

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  • WhiteFang
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:47am

    Women need to be very careful as to who they agree to date. To get involved with a suitor without a thorough background check is very unwise these days.
    Do not assume he is a good guy, and do not believe or accept anything he says without a unbiased investigation and some suspicion. Don’t agree with me? – Just ask Bahrami!

    This advice goes for men also.

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    • 2012hey
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:35am

      You have GOT to be kidding me right? This was IRAN – women don’t get to do background checks on men in IRAN. They‘re lucky if the men they choose don’t rape and murder them because Iranian society will back the MAN almost every time in IRAN

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:45am

      I am not talking about Iran, I‘m talking about the good ol’ USA.
      What happens in Iran is beyond any of our ability to control.

      I should have made that clear, please excuse me.

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  • Seeds
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:45am

    I agree with kickagrandma.. I don’t believe it went that way.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:42am

    Sounds good, but I think it is a publicity stunt. Perhaps not, but it reeks of manipulation so that we (non muslimes) will think they are a forgiving people. Not so, folks.

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    • mossbrain
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:07am

      I agree, the guy probably paid the lady a lot of money to avoid punishment. Go back to Iran all you American Iranians, get out of the USA.

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    • KusoJiJi
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:53am

      @mossbrain your comment shows how pathetically clueless you are about most iranians who live in the United States. Many of these families were forced to leave Iran to escape persecution in 1979 and are horrified what has happened to their country. You are probably a troll so I won’t waste anymore of my time.

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  • shirelover
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:41am

    Good for her, she has learned a lesson that is one of the hardest in life. The real question now, is will her rejected suitor learn his lesson? Could this be a watershed moment for that area? I hope and pray it will. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth” will leave the whole world blind and toothless.

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  • Obama Bin Lying
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:36am

    Finally someone in the religion of perpetual outrage shows compassion. Albeit to the wrong person

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  • auntmoxie.com
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:33am

    I don’t know that I could have done the same thing, but I hope it will be to HER benefit for having done so. Forgiveness isn’t about forgetting; it‘s about keeping the heart open so that we don’t become demons ourselves.

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  • COME AND TAKE IT 2121
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:31am

    Acid in the poor womans face? who thinks this stuff up? Sick, sick people……

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:29am

    I hope at the very least they took his freedom away from him. She is to be commended. I don’t know if I could have been as forgiving. Nope… I know I couldn’t have as forgiving.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:22am

    Good choice-she is the better person for it. He still needs to go to jail.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:29am

      Unforgiveness hurts the person who was wronged more than the person who did the original harm.

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