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This quote was stripped straight from the text of a news article in the NY times entitled:
Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam's Name
by Nazila Fathi


According to the Supreme Court's earlier decision, the killers, who are members of the Basiji Force, volunteer vigilantes favored by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, considered their victims morally corrupt and, according to Islamic teachings and Iran's Islamic penal code, their blood could therefore be shed.The last victims, for example, were a young couple engaged to be married who the killers claimed were walking together in public.

At the same time, he laid out examples of moral corruption that do permit bloodshed, including armed banditry, adultery by a wife and insults to the Prophet Muhammad.

It is with a saddened tone that I decry the values held by religious moderates and extremists, and their perpetual allocation of trust and honour by the rest of society.
"oh, he is muslim, it is ok for him to beat his neighbour"
When will we, as a collective society, take a concerted step towards eradicating corrupt and incomprehensible morals? When should killing a person ever be condoned due to religious beliefs? I realize, absolutely and completely, that it is done every day and every moment somewhere around the world. But, it needs not be accepted and 'understood'; it needs to be vilified and eradicated.

But the tragic train of embattled views continues, on and on, towards the future. Witches, a couple in love holding hands, a meek kiss on the cheek, and other 'contestable' actions will cause death the world over - legally sanctioned death - perpetually.
It does not need to.