Scene from The Stoning of Soraya M.
“Women’s rights are under attack! What do we do? Stand up, fight back!” That’s the rally cry of North American feminists. And they’re right – women’s rights ARE under attack! But not in North America. Not even close to what women are facing around the world in far more oppressive countries!
I just watched The Stoning of Soraya M. and I am angry! Among other things, I am quite sick of “Women’s Rights” being co-opted by the abortion lobby! You want to see what real oppression looks like? Watch the cinematic reproduction of the true story of a young mother named Soraya! Stories like hers are taking place throughout the world, largely where Islam and Sharia law are the rule of the land. Soraya was abused by her husband without recourse, backed into a situation where she would’ve been powerless and penniless if she’d consented to the divorce he wanted, and when her husband accused her of adultery in order to be rid of her immediately without having to return her dowry, she had absolutely no opportunity to defend herself. In one day she was accused, convicted on the word of her husband and a lying witness, and sentenced to death by stoning. That is oppression!
In many places around the world, women are routinely beaten by their husbands. They are born to serve men and are considered lower than animals. These women’s entire purpose is to be given in marriage, to fulfill a husband’s sexual desires, cook his food, clean his house, and raise his sons. Daughters are his property to barter and trade with other men. In some countries they are viewed as a burdened and drowned or aborted for not being sons. They are rarely educated and rarely given the chance to be anything other than a man’s unpaid servant. Because, as Soraya’s husband put it, “It’s a man’s world.” Yes, that is oppression!
The Stoning of Soraya M. spares us no detail, and we are made to watch in real-time and minute by minute detail as Soraya is taken on a death march, tied and buried waist deep, and as stone after stone after stone hits their sickening mark with graphic results and heart-wrenching thuds. The entire movie can be rented on Amazaon for $3.99 (see link below) but I dare you to watch the ten minute stoning sequence here. Knowing that this is still happening on a regular basis all around the world, I want you to watch and see what it really means for women’s rights to be under attack:
I want to fight for the rights of women like Soraya. I want to see them have access to education, to be employed and paid fairly and to be able to provide education for all their children. I want to see their culture respect women’s voices in society and not regard them as subservient sex slaves and housekeepers. I want to see them have access to real legal support, to fair divorce settlements, to women’s shelters should they need to escape a bad marriage. I want to see women like Soraya be given basic dignity and human rights, with the chance to live and to walk down their streets with heads held high – in a man and woman‘s world! I believe in women’s rights, and I’ll do whatever I can to fight for women like Soraya who have no voice. Females, (both born and unborn) who are being killed and discriminated against just because they are female.
And no – you do NOT get to equate a woman’s right to live without being beaten, silenced, or stoned with your desire to dismember your preborn children to be rid of them sooner. Shame on you if you make a mockery of the real oppression faced by women all over the world, and if you dare pretend that your rights are under attack by the mere suggestion that you may have to walk around pregnant for nine months before passing your unwanted child on to someone else. Don’t cry me a river about bodily integrity if you don’t have rocks flying at your head but instead are walking around making free decisions about your life and sexual choices. You have access to multiple forms of contraception and opportunities that countless women around the globe won’t ever know, and yet nearly half of women having abortions simply did not use a contraception method the month they got pregnant) It’s time to stop playing the victim and take charge of your sex life. You’re not under attack!
Yes, life could still improve for women in the western world. We could use better daycare and maternity leave options, guaranteed equal wages, flexible school and work telecommute solutions… but comparatively, a trot around the world should make us all realize we’re really not that bad off! It’s time to stop co-opting “women’s rights”.
By: Kristine Kruszelnicki
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Very, very disturbing that this happened to Soraya and other women and still happens to women today. Stop it!
Agreed! And I know it was dramatized, but the scene in which her sons throw rocks against her absolutely broke my heart. Those rocks must have hurt more than all the others!
oh plz,, for god sake,,,, stop this bullshit… we all are human being…. do somthing jesus…
Kristine, you said exactly what I wanted to say, but am unable to say because my opinion is never taken seriously.
I am considered anti-woman just for being against killing children. I see no moral difference between an innocent woman being stoned or an unborn woman being killed for the “crime” of being female.
I wish I knew what to do to talk sense into the men who are behind all this evil. sadly, they are mostly men who claim I have no morals because I don’t worship their sexist god.
BTW, when I try to play the Youtube video you linked, it says: “This video is not available in your country.” You are in Canada right? Why would it not be allowed in the US?