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Giving Islam a bad name

Tehrān : Iran | 11 months ago  
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    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    This is the photo after the stunt is finished and boy is sitting with both ...
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    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    Boy just before the start of the trick.
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    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    The tyre moving towards boy's arm.
  • Giving Islam A Bad Name
    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    The trick in this stunt is that the vehicle is heavily counterbalanced on ...
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    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    The trick in this stunt is that the vehicle is heavily counterbalanced on ...
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    Giving Islam A Bad Name
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    The trick in this stunt is that the vehicle is heavily counterbalanced on ...
Giving Islam A Bad Name

These pictures have been circulating around the Internet for 3 or more years. The story to which these are associated with is of an Iranian boy who was caught stealing a loaf of bread and this is how Islam punishes a thief.

However, the photographs actually correspond to performers hustling money from onlookers, by staging an act in which the boy apparently allows his arm to be run over by a car. It actually makes sense when you see the person sitting next to the boy is holding a microphone in his hand. Also, you can see boys' arm resting on a towel/blanket. If it had been a punishment, I don't feel they would have comforted the arm.

One thing I've noticed on most of the websites is that people who want to spread a negative image of Islam have skipped the photograph where the boy sits up unhurt after the stunt.

Forwarding this set of photos with the last one missing is just an immoral way to make people hate Islam, telling them that Islam is a religion of injustice.
I believe everyone should first do some research before actually believing what they see. I think, these people follow the Religion of Ignorance and followers of which can be traced in every known religion.

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Posted By pranay pranay | 11 months ago
yes i had received this mail when i was in college three or four years back, saying exactly what you had said. It said such punishments are frequent in Iran and I just couldn't believe it. I was wondering how people can just stand around and watch such inhumane thing. Mind you, the pictures after the incident were not present. They just showed the part where the boy's arm was under the blanket and the wheels about to run over it. I hope the people who divide in the name of religion will die multiple times in the nether-realm, of each people they have helped to kill.
Posted By solitaire solitaire | 11 months ago
I am surprised I haven't received the said photographs in a forwarded email, or the like. But, I think it goes against any sort of common sense that a child would be punished for stealing by running a car over his arm???? They didn't even HAVE cars at the time the religion was formed!
Posted By rmcg70 rmcg70 | 11 months ago
http://www.excatholicsforchrist.com/articles.php?PageURL=Islam.htm

Here is a link that can explain Islam's function.
Posted By Majdy Majdy | 11 months ago
Pointblank my friend, you did a great job here. I have to say I truly respect those people who bring truth in the light. That was a very good effort on your part and I guess we should all learn from this report that the next time we come across any such deceiving mail, we get in to the details and check credibility before believing in them. Thanks again.
Peace!
Posted By mominasheikh mominasheikh | 11 months ago
Here's another drawback to this one. Bad news or negative aspects to just about anything spread faster than anything else. And people are most likely to believe them rather than first proof checking it and then being sensible enough to support it or not, regardless how believable it is.
Posted By abuwarda abuwarda | 7 months ago
This is a tribal culture not a picture of Islam, Islam means Peace & Love for All Humans..........Muslim Extremist don't Know, What is ISLAM...
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