Sticks and stones
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Ivan Osorio
06/26/09
The Stoning of Soraya M. is a difficult film to watch, but worth taking the time to do so. The film, which opens today, depicts the stoning death of a young Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery. It highlights the outrage that the barbaric practice of stoning continues to occur anywhere, but at times does more than that. Based on the book of the same title by Iranian-French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, the film (directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh) focuses on a specific event that illustrates the way in which a repressive, illiberal society can close in on an individual, ultimately taking away his or her very life and personhood...
https://cei.org/articles/2009/06/26/sticks-and-stones
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stoning
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Osorio
by Ivan Osorio
06/26/09
The Stoning of Soraya M. is a difficult film to watch, but worth taking the time to do so. The film, which opens today, depicts the stoning death of a young Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery. It highlights the outrage that the barbaric practice of stoning continues to occur anywhere, but at times does more than that. Based on the book of the same title by Iranian-French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, the film (directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh) focuses on a specific event that illustrates the way in which a repressive, illiberal society can close in on an individual, ultimately taking away his or her very life and personhood...
https://cei.org/articles/2009/06/26/sticks-and-stones
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stoning
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Osorio
rudkla - 29. Jun, 10:07
