Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Starting last Friday, theaters across the country gave Americans a vivid, dramatic and most timely insight into the struggle now playing out in Iran. More importantly, the extraordinary new film, The Stoning of Soraya M., offers each of us a way to help the the Iranian people – and most especially the women – to free themselves from the theocratic repression with which they have been afflicted for the past 30 years.
The Stoning unflinchingly depicts an act of unimaginable brutality: a small Iranian town's collective execution of a woman who became inconvenient to her faithless husband. Soraya M., however, is not just a victim of Shariah – the theo-political-legal program of authoritative Islam that makes a capital offense of adultery, the charge falsely leveled at this mother of four.
No, Soraya truly is an Everywoman under the misogynistic, Shariah-adherent Islamic Republic of Iran. Of course, not all of Iran's females are stoned to death. But each of them must live every day with the knowledge that they can be abused and perhaps killed by their own men-folk or by the authorities for behavior deemed un-Islamic or otherwise proscribed. Read more ...
Starting last Friday, theaters across the country gave Americans a vivid, dramatic and most timely insight into the struggle now playing out in Iran. More importantly, the extraordinary new film, The Stoning of Soraya M., offers each of us a way to help the the Iranian people – and most especially the women – to free themselves from the theocratic repression with which they have been afflicted for the past 30 years.
The Stoning unflinchingly depicts an act of unimaginable brutality: a small Iranian town's collective execution of a woman who became inconvenient to her faithless husband. Soraya M., however, is not just a victim of Shariah – the theo-political-legal program of authoritative Islam that makes a capital offense of adultery, the charge falsely leveled at this mother of four.
No, Soraya truly is an Everywoman under the misogynistic, Shariah-adherent Islamic Republic of Iran. Of course, not all of Iran's females are stoned to death. But each of them must live every day with the knowledge that they can be abused and perhaps killed by their own men-folk or by the authorities for behavior deemed un-Islamic or otherwise proscribed. Read more ...
Source: FSM
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