Nat Hentoff is arguably the most honest and consistantly fair liberal in America. In this week's Village Voice he writes an article about Iran's practice of stoning of women for adultery ("allowing" oneself to get raped qualifies for stoning) under President Ahmadinejad.  The article states, in part, As human rights lawyer Lily Mazahery, president of the Legal Rights Institute reports, "in 99 percent of these cases, the accused women have received no legal representation because, under the Shariah legal system, their testimony is at best worth only half the value of the testimony of men."  Mazahery, the Persian American lawyer whose mission has long been to save Iranian women from this and other brutal treatment, tells me that sangsar, "dating back to the dark ages," was, for a time, suspended by the pre—revolutionary regime due to pressure from international human rights organizations, combined with protests from civilized persons around the world. But when the...(Read Full Post)