Rep. Keith Ellison - Nazanin needs your help!

Congressman Keith Ellison is our first Muslim in the House of Representatives. As such, he has a role to play. Frankly, if Senators can trot off to visit - fact finding/embarrass the US missions - a dictator in Syria who is known to support Hezbollah and certainly works to advance the goals of Iran, then Congressman Ellison can speak out on the plight of Nazanin - the young Iranian woman who may be executed for defending herself from rapists. One of the rapists was killed in the attack, by Nazanin and therefore, she must die - for defending herself. Dymphna has written Rep. Keith Ellison's Excellent Opportunity. Atlas Shrugs has posted Calling CAIR's Bluff and I want to send a personal "thank you" to Atlas Shrugs for the link to my post, CAIR and Nazanin? An earlier post here, Nazanin - Is her plight the face of Islam?, asks the questions of where the Congressman stands. An additional post, CAIR and Nazanin?, asks where is CAIR in defending this young woman's right to self-defense. It seemed peculiar to me that a young Iranian woman would have to carry a knife with her on an outing in a park in the enlightened Islamic Republic of Iran. But Congressman Ellison has an opportunity to take a stand; to speak out for this young woman and to defend her. If Senators can embark upon setting foreign policy, and the likes of Jesse Jackson can travel to North Africa where black Christians are enslaved today with no quams, then Congressman Ellison can certainly - at the very least - send a letter to the leaders in Iran protesting the cruelty soon to be imposed upon Nazanin. Congressman Ellison can be reached here message to Congressman Ellison. If you go to this link, you will see the list of bills the Congressman is sponsoring after only 5 days in office. You can click on any bill to the right - send a message - and be able to contact the Congressman there as well as through snail-mail info provided by Dymphna at the Gates of Vienna, linked above. About Nazanin - Is her plight the face of Islam? Is this the face of Islam Congressman Ellison wishes portrayed across the world? Surely, the execution of this young woman for defending her honor and her life screams out at the atrocities carried out in the name of Allah. Frankly, I don't think Allah is unmerciful. It is man who is or can be unmerciful. In the case of Nazanin, if she is executed for defending herself during a violent attack against her person by three men, then to me, it is Islam that is shamed. Muslims cannot allow or condone this sort of injustice to be visited upon a young Muslim woman - wherever she lives. If this crime against human rights and dignity carried out, then Islam and its followers cannot claim that Islam is a religion of peace. On its face, the very term "religion of peace" makes a mockery of the "civilization" Islam porports to be. I hope Congressman Keith Ellison will seize this opportunity to stand up for Nazanin and to declare firmly that he will not stand for the institution of Islamic Law in the United States of America; that he will speak for our democratic republic where all men and women are equal before the law; that he will say, "It won't happen here, not here in the United States of America." ___________________________ Update: I just received this comment from Dymphna of the Gates of Vienna - am passing it on to you so that it won't get lost in comments. Perhaps there is hope. Dymphna said: You're right about the effectiveness of snail mail, especially those individually written letters that are not a copy of some template another person writes so we don't have to think...it's easy when writing to politicians if you keep in mind that civility is paramount. Ravings never convinced anyone and name-calling goes into the circular file. Civility is crucial when we want to recruit someone on the behalf of a young woman who is going to die simply because the state she lives in can and will do such a thing. Mr. Ellison has recommended 'negotiations' with Iran. This could be his first act: negotiating for this girl's life. ___________________ Let's keep Nazanin and her family in our prayers; let us pray that this young woman's life will be saved along with the lives of all women living under the oppression of Sharia Law.