Un-Liberaled Woman

If it were In the Valley of Elah with Tommy Lee Jones – critical praises and Oscar nomination. Charlie Wilson’s War with Tom Hanks and Julia Robert’s atrocious Texan accent – critical praises and Oscar nominations.  Stop Loss (a film that inaccurately depicts what Stop Loss actually is – go liberal smearing Hollywood!) with ImdeterminedtoproveI’magreatactordespitemyprettyface Ryan Phillipe – critical praises.

All some take on anti-America, anti-military, pro-misunderstood Middle East, pro-itsokaytobeagainstanyUSeffortstofightterrorism.

Now here’s a movie that sheds some light on how women are treated over in some countries in the Eastern world – The Stoning of Soraya M. (emphasis mine)

This resonant book portrays the ugliness of fundamentalist Islamic mob justice in Khomeini-era Iran. Sahebjam, an Iranian journalist based in France who has written critically of the regime, returned to his homeland under cover in 1986. While visiting a small town he calls Kupayeh, he learned how an innocent 35-year-old woman had been stoned to death for supposed infidelity. His thorough reporting, based on a further visit to the village, reconstructs Soraya’s life and killing with much dialogue and interior monologue. Soraya gave birth to nine children in 14 years and her husband Ghorban-Ali also turned to prostitutes. He became involved in shady business deals and began to associate with Sheik Hassan, a criminal who was appointed Ayatollah Khomeini’s local representative. When Ghorban-Ali, having fallen in love with another woman, accused his wife of infidelity, villagers lied to aid him and Soraya was left with no support in the town. Her two eldest sons sat on the male tribunal that declared her guilty, and she was stoned by a mob that included her father.

I’m sure it will receive terrible reviews because 1). It depicts a true story of how women are oppressed in the Middle East (not ALL of the Middle East, but a majority), 2). Stars Jim Caviezel (which kudos to him for not letting Hollywood bully him into a disappearing act after the backlash on Passion of the Christ), and 3). is not an “America’s military efforts all post-1990 are war mongerist” portrayal. Not that it’s a pro-military movie by any means, but it just seems lately that any movie out of Hollywood which is set in the Middle East must never show the violent tendencies that exist in this part of the world even though they are ubiquitously present. I mean I watched the movie A Mighty Heart and even that movie wouldn’t go near the portrayal of Daniel Pearl’s kidnappers as the disgusting, violent terrorists that they were.

I think this summer I’m going to get the book this movie is based on and read it. Plus the book is banned in Iran (BIG SURPRISE) so just buying it will bring a smile across my face because I’m sticking it to Ahmajenidad in some way. Sarah in an earlier post also recommended these other books for educating yourself about the lives of women in the Middle East – The Bookseller of Kabul and The Places In Between.

Also, keep in mind when you hear some liberal talk about how this doesn’t go on anymore to look at something other than Wikipedia and YouTube comments for his defense on that argument. Stoning of women goes on in many places of the world, and unfortunately these women are given no chance to defend themselves against the lies that typically cause them to be stoned to death. Remember, in American if violence is conducted against a woman the perp is prosecuted, but a lot of times in these countries for religious/cultural reasons the women are the ones who half to suffer punishment for acts of violence committed AGAINST them in the first place.

One more thing to keep in mind is that this story happened under the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini and thugs in his tyrannical dictatorship were connected to this particular incident. Guess which president led to the Ayatollah coming into power because of his inept foreign policy?

My baloney has a first name, it’s J-I-M-M-Y….

My baloney has a second name, it’s C-A-R-T-E-R…

When Jimmy Carter has his say,

It’s human rights pushed to the side in every way!