Women in Islam: The Stoning of Soraya M.

Cyrus Nowrasteh at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend, Palm Beach, Florida 2007

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The Stoning of Soraya M. - 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. This book refuses to let such horror go unremembered.

Cyrus Nowrasteh is one of the most versatile and creative writer/directors working in Hollywood today. His credits include the hit Showtime movies The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) and 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002), both of which won rave reviews and numerous awards - including two PEN USA West Literary Awards for Nowrasteh. But 2005 may be Cyrus Nowrasteh's biggest year yet. He's a writer on Steven Spielberg's epic new miniseries about western migration, "Into The West - and he's a writer/producer on ABC's major miniseries about the cataclysmic events of 9/11.

Nowrasteh has always gravitated towards true stories. A Persian-American whose family had to flee Iran when it was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists, Nowrasteh's work combines an appreciation for the intimate and the human, with a love of history and respect for America's founding traditions.

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[bayreuth79]

What about American law "in action"? The death penalty is still legal in many States. I think any form of capital punishment is barbaric, including the electric chair or gas or poisonous injection. Its punishes not only the individual who has committed the crime, but the family and friends of the criminal. Its sick and disturbing.

[PersoAryanism]

@111NoOne111 Okay you're Iranian? What's your point? I agree that this 32 years of imposing a foreign Islamic culture on Iran is wrong, I also disagree with Iranians making propaganda films to brainwash Americans who literally know nothing about Iran into hating it.

Fuck America.

[est623ce]

this guy is a fraud. of course he speaking in front of a bunch of booji people at a jews event.

[TruAgape123]

I wanted my appetizer First!!  STONE HIM!!!!! This caspect of their ulture of is disgusting

[yabitchonmydikk]

@KpopManiacSFL the only people that get capital punishment in 1st world countrys, when capital punishment exists in the country, which it doesnt here in England,its only for muderers, peadophiles, ect, when it happens in islamic countrys they do it to homosexuals, young people you convert away from the religeon, woman who dont cover up, adulterers ect. i agree human life is precius and shouldnt be taken unless absoloutley necessery. but capital punishment isnt the same as islamic killings.

[KpopManiacSFL]

@yabitchonmydikk YES IT IS! Canada and other countries DO NOT do the sick and inhumane practice as MURDERING a human life. The pain is the same, all difference is there is no blood and no APPEARANCE of pain (doesn't mean that there is no pain). Killing people is barbaric!

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Fatima74 The Soyara's husband can't afford to take care of another wife so he wanted her to divorce him but she didn't want to. So to marry the girl the husband needed to get rid of her.

[Fatima74]

ummmm if the story is true as this liar claims, and the husband wanted to use "islamic law" to get the 14 year old as this liar claim, then all he had to do is marry her as a second 2nd wife. the liar's story does not add up.

[MrSoldierperson]

Let's also stone the men who get with these women!!! Savages to say the least!!! And to get her own children involved in this brutality and her own dad?! Stone dad too for being dumb!!!

[besmb2105]

@sammygee17 Actually I say its both, they often go hand in hand,too, but very well