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  • What hath Shariah wrought?

    08/11/2009 8:34:35 AM PDT · by bs9021 · 5 replies · 552+ views
    Campus Report ^ | August 11, 2009 | Brittany Fortier
    What hath Shariah wrought? by: Brittany Fortier, August 11, 2009 Some movies engage the mind or lift the spirit, but The Stoning Of Soraya M. touches the soul. The film tells the story of an Iranian village’s persecution of a woman named Soraya, who is falsely accused of adultery by her husband. Through the corruption of local village leaders, the husband is able to conspire against his wife by taking advantage of a system that is already rigged against her. When a journalist named Freidoune Sahebjam (Jim Cavesiel, The Passion of the Christ) comes to the village, an opportunity is...
  • Is Hollywood Getting It Right on Islam and Stoning?

    07/01/2009 10:28:09 AM PDT · by Nachum · 15 replies · 869+ views
    Human Events ^ | 7/1/09 | Robert Spencer
    A powerful new film, The Stoning of Soraya M., is calling public attention to the Islamic practice of stoning adulterers in a way that only Hollywood can; while at least eight women await death by stoning in Iran today, none of their cases have drawn any significant protests from human rights organizations, and Western governments have remained largely indifferent. With a genocidally inclined nuclear Iran looming on the international stage, the victimization of women by Islamic laws prescribing stoning for adultery and other sexual crimes may seem to be the least of our worries. The Stoning of Soraya M., however,...