For the judges of the Islamic Republic: If you hear the insults, not the execution, not the stir kicked

A rule in international law and criminal law in almost all Nations there that the rule of equality before the law (equality before the law) Say. This issue also in The seventh paragraph of the Universal Declaration of human rights Stipulated that the Islamic Republic is a signatory of the. On the basis of this rule all persons are equal before the law.

Muslim religious leaders in their narratives of the fable is that they also rule of equality before the law was to recognize. For example, a famous narrations of Imam Ali, the first Imam of the Shiites, showed that he had during the Caliphate, and when in a legal dispute over Jewish personal property against a battleship armor was present on the stand; put equal to the plaintiff and to the Court, which voted in favor of the side Affect the neck, front. Or, for example, that Islam's prophet was willing to be flogged against the person who claimed to be wrong.. I am not willing to investigate the right or the wrong of these narrations, but merely to consider the religious beliefs of Muslims..

Unfortunately, this simple matter is not understandable to many of us, that the goodness or badness of an act is related to its essence; not to the people involved.. In our country, mourning is officially observed for two months of the year solely because some believe that, fourteen centuries ago, their third Imam was treacherously murdered.. However, this same group is incapable of understanding the most treacherous and ugliest types of crimes in the current era.. Or, for example, they observe a ten-day mourning period for Fatimiyyah because they believe that fourteen hundred years ago, the Prophet's daughter was brutally disemboweled and murdered; yet, they themselves commit a far uglier act in the streets with police vans, running over ordinary people.. In all these cases, the incorrect assumption is that the ugliness of the crime is related to the status of the victim, not the essence of the act..

Recently, the fifth branch of the Khorasan Criminal Court, a person named Ruhollah Tavana for insulting the Prophet of Islam and Ali Khamenei has been sentenced to death.. In Iran's penal laws, there is no punishment defined as "execution for cursing"; for example, if Ruhollah Tavana had uttered the same curses to Ali Khamenei to an ordinary citizen, not only would he not have been executed, but he would not even have been imprisoned.. So what has caused the same act of cursing to be punishable by death in one instance and to have no penalty whatsoever in another? Is it not that the status of those who are the subject of the offense–if cursing is considered a crime at all–در صدور حکم قانونی متهم لحاظ شده؟ اگر چنین باشد آیا جز این است که دادگاه یکی از پایه ای ترین اصول حقوقی جهان را نادیده گرفته؟ به اینکار البته دورویی (hypocrisy) Both say. But let's assume that there is no rule called equality before the law, and the status of individuals who are subject to the law affects the determination of the severity of the crime.. In this case, the act itself is no longer a crime.–در اینجا فحاشی–The criterion for issuing a legal sentence is not the act; rather, it is the difference in the status and position of individuals that determines the severity of the crime.. Since the difference in people's status is predetermined; essentially, such a conviction cannot have a rational and logical basis.. For example, Ruhollah Tavana could not have decided at the time of committing the crime not to be the Prophet of Islam and to be Ruhollah Tavana; rather, it is the judge who determines the position of both parties even before examining the case.. Such a ruling is subject to determinism rather than free will..

I remember that in elementary school, we were taught that if someone insults you, you are not allowed to kick them; at most, you can insult them back, and if someone tries to beat you; then you can defend yourself.. Perhaps school authorities should teach this simple rule to the judges of the Islamic Republic as well: if someone insults you, the most you can do is return the insult to them, and if someone kicks you, kick them back; but what you should never do is execute someone for insulting you..