Reasons for rebellion in Iran

Abby Wisse Schacter:

WANT a great way to beat the heat this weekend and support the brave Iranian protesters? Easy. Go see "The Stoning of Soraya M.," opening today in Manhattan and nationwide.

"Stoning" opens as we've spent the last week watching peaceful demonstrators beaten, punched, harassed, arrested and even shot as they protest Iran's rigged elections. When the distributors set the movie's release to coincide with the Iranian vote, they couldn't have realized how timely they'd be.

The brutal murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, shot dead in the street for the "crime" of getting out of her car, even moved President Obama to finally condemn the Iranian regime's crack-down. Neda has become a martyr for the cause of liberty and women's rights. That resonates with "The Stoning of Soraya M.," because at its core is an innocent woman brutally murdered by an oppressive and tyrannical authority.

The film depicts events from 1986, when an Iranian woman got in the way of her husband's plan to divorce her to marry a teenager. Fearing that the split would leave her and her seven children with no means of support, Soraya M. denied his divorce request.

Using the strictest interpretation of Sharia law, which had been imposed after the Islamic Revolution seven years earlier, Soraya's husband accused her of adultery and enlisted the help of the local mullah to put her on trial, convict her and impose her sentence -- stoning her to death -- all in the matter of a few hours. Her neighbors and family participated in the barbaric killing.

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It is a movie that tells not only of the brutality of this regime but the insidiousness of Shari'a Law. You have to wonder if the religious bigots would be proud of the act of stoning this woman to death. I think the answer is yes and no. They probably are, but they won't want this movie to be shown.

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