Hate speech is removed at the moderator's discretion. I felt that Sunni's comments were close to hate speech, but not at the level that most of the mods would remove it. In essence, he was expressing his religious beliefs, so I let the comments stand.

The last hate speech I removed was something about bringing back lynching of blacks simply for the crime of being black (clearly hate speech). In the case of Sunni, I let his comments stand, because he wasn't calling for the execution of ALL women (which would be hate speech), but rather, he was providing an example of Sharia (religious) law, in which the state (Iran), imposes execution for morality crimes.

One can't very well call the law of the land (in this case, Iran), hate speech, can we?

Though, his comments ARE distressing and alarming, for most of us.