Here’s a story about the glory of shari’a.

An Iranian named Mahmoud had an unfaithful wife.

He had her arrested and put on trial for her crime.

Mahmoud worried.

He worried that she might get away with it. His honor was at stake.

So he stabbed his unfaithful wife to death. In the courtroom.

Since Mahmoud was the sole support of his now somewhat diminished family …

… and his slaughtered, unfaithful wife had no surviving family members on her side to demand vengeance …

Mahmoud was allowed to go free.

TEHRAN, Aug 19 (AFP) - Iran’s judiciary ordered a man to be released after he killed his unfaithful wife in the courtroom, because the woman’s immediate forebears are not alive to claim retaliation, press reports said Thursday.

According to the newspaper Shargh, the man, identified as Mahmoud, had filed a complaint against his wife and her lover when he had found out that she was cheating on him.

Was Mahmoud a madman, totally out of control?

When she appeared in court in Shahr Ray city in Tehran province in 2003 he lost control and stabbed her to death…

…or a cold-blooded killer?

“I asked the court for the ultimate punishment for her. But I thought they would not punish her,” Shargh quoted the husband as saying, “so I left the court building, hid a knife in my clothes to escape the body search at the court entrance, then I stabbed her in the courtroom in presence of the court staff.”

Who cares?

The unfaithful wife’s boyfriend has to pay for his crime, too.

The woman’s lover, charged with illegitimate relations, was sentenced to be lashed and the verdict will be executed soon, Shargh said.

The end.

(Hat tip: Allah.)