The Stoning of Soraya M

Well it has been a few weeks and i have to say that there has not been a whole lot to write about. Until last night. I decided o wait 24 hours to cool down. I usually do not let movies get me going but this one boiled my blood. I discovered this movie watching a Charlie Rose interview a few months ago. The title is The Stoning of Soraya M.
This is the story of a woman living in a village in Iran after the Shah has been removed and the Ayatollah has taken over. She is married to a man that no longer wants to be her husband. He wants to marry a 14 year old girl that was offered to him, by her own father, to get himself out of being executed. Soraya would not allow the divorce, despite beatings and her husbands demands to only take his two sons with him and leave their two daughters behind. Her husband then concocts a story that she had taken a nap in another man's bed. Now according to the Quran and the people in this village this is a crime punishable by death by stoning.
She is taken from her home at gun point and her arms are bound at her elbows, she is then forced to kneel in a hole and buried up to her waist. The villagers then stand about 15 feet away and throw rocks at her until she is dead.
After some online research I discovered that this still takes place. And like the perfect storm of anger after the movie is over I flip by PBS and there is the President of Iran explaining that his country's search for nuclear power is for peaceful purposes only.

Now I will be the first to tell you that our society is not perfect. This practice still goes on and it has long before, as some would like to believe, America screwed things up.

Now here is a representative of a people that some want us to make peace with. Here is a people that think it is a crime, punishable by an atrocious death, to take a nap in another man's bed. Here is a woman being pelted to death by rocks as the crowd chants "God is great!"
After watching this I say, fuck those people.