STOP THE STONING OF SAKINEH MOHAMMADI TODAY, URGENT ACTION ALERT

http://stopstonningnow.com/sakine/sakin284.php?nr=50326944&lang=en

Posted July 7, 2010
From Newsweek
by Ravi Somaiya

According to Amnesty International, the Iranian penal code specifies that "stones are large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately." Article 102 of the Penal Code states that men should be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should "not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones." Iran executed 388 people last year, mostly by hanging, leaving it second only to China in the number of people put to death, according to Amnesty International. READ IN FULL

UPDATED JULY 10TH .... PLEASE READ!!! ALSO SIGN ANOTHER PETITION. ONE SAVED HER FROM BEING STONED. NOW SAVE HER FROM BEING HANGED TO DEATH!

SIGN A PETITION TO DEMAND THE BARBARIC ACT OF STONING Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani BE STOPPED!

Today's Post, Simply go to ---

Here: http://suzysvintageattic.blogspot.com/

women making a difference, in her own small way...

Will write more later,

Jane

PROJECT FOR SEWING COOP--MISSION-RELIEF SUPPORT

[SEE POST BELOW]

One of the areas I wanted to get started with a union-coop was forming coops, of women in needlework/arts, to raise funds for NGOs, Relief Workers, who do NOT have huge overhead expenses. I found one,

listing it here: http://www.philadelphia33.org/

I will be coming back to this, with more in depth info, for now, read this, about Why Africa is so poor--by one who Works there doing Relief--what he says about charities may shock you...though they are needed, not all are what they say they are, etc.,

see: http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1/journal/1534565-why-does-african-countries-not-do-more-to-help-the-poor

The reason I bring this up, it confirms what my first husband said to me, he worked in Africa [and Middle East] for seven years...he often told me of clothes tore up into rags, clothes sent to the people in countries, that gov/corruption would then sell to companies, such as the one my ex worked for, for mechanic rags, etc., or cement for development that was dumped and dumped while people slept outside. They house the animals first, since animals, are their food source-work source. What the man in this relief organization says is very true--

no one who works for them gets paid....therefore, they do need help...I think, that we could come up with some help solutions.

Jane--update, SEE ALSO, and like Wow, this Totally relates to what I was talking about, in post below--i.e. Tina Modotti and photography and Art making a difference, her link is also on the Phil Mission Site,

http://www.livehonestly.com/

Look over the projects the mission team has, I think--that it might be a good idea to do some write ups about why water is poor in countries, why land is not farmable, etc. and why so many barriers,

we have grass roots for political votes, why not grass roots for Mission-Relief work?

Jane

FREE RIFQA BARY! Muslim teen held hostage in America for converting to Christianity

URGENT PRAYER AND ACTION ALERT, URGENT PRAYER AND ACTION ALERT

from Women in Islam, http://thewomenofislam.blogspot.com/

Rifqa Bary In Solitary Confinement
The vise is tightening further on Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled to Florida from her Ohio home in fear for her life. Now she is in foster care in Ohio, in imminent danger of being returned to her family, and the Ohio authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer, continue to isolate her.

Rifqa Bary has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list of friends who are allowed to see her. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa requests to visit, are repeatedly told that “there is no approved visitation list”? Is it not the very mission by objective of children’s services to protect the health and welfare of a child? Why has this one child in particular been denied visits from friends?

Rifqa has also been deprived of access to the phone and Internet. She has also been denied “pastoral guidance.” Convicts, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles all have access to “pastoral guidance.” Rifqa’s close friend and fellow ex-Muslim, Christian pastor Jamal Jivanjee, explains: “If you are incarcerated in an American prison today, you have the right to have a visit from a Pastor. Rifqa Bary does not have this most basic right that most criminals have today.” Is that how powerful and influential Islamic supremacists have become in the state of Ohio -- that one young girl is starved of spiritual nourishment so as not to insult Islam?

WHAT YOU CAN DO

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/merry-christmas-rifqa.html

see story here as well: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34612

SHARIA LAW IN AMERICA? OH, YOU BET.....OHIO--FREE RIFQA, WE ARE NOT A 'SHARIA' COUNTRY, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, IS JUST THAT--

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, AND ITS A WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.