A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

You MUST See This Movie

Yesterday my brother and my friend and I went to see The Stoning of Soraya M. It was a powerful film from the same producers of Passion of the Christ. The story is of a woman in Iran more than a decade ago who is executed for nothing more than a rumor. It deals with the harsh treatment of women in countries ruled by Sharia Law.

This is honestly one of the most important movies you'll ever see. In case you needed an extra motivation to spend the time and money on Soraya M, just know that the government in Iran has condemned this film.

Dennis Prager wrote an exceptional column on the film and the reasons why we need to support it.

An excerpt:

How many politically incorrect movies has Hollywood made in the last generation? How many films, for instance, have depicted communist evil? Given that Communism murdered more than 100 million innocents -- in peacetime! -- and enslaved about 1 billion more, one would think that Hollywood would have made a fair number of movies depicting the horrors of communism. But aside from "Dr. Zhivago" and "The Killing Fields," I cannot think of any. There are, of course, innumerable films depicting Nazi evil -- as well there should be -- but it takes no courage to make films depicting Nazis as evil.

Likewise, given Sept. 11, the slaughter of innocents around the world, and the atrocities within the Muslim world committed by “Islamists,” “Islamic fundamentalists,” “jihadists,” “Muslim radicals” “Islamofascists” -- or whatever other term one prefers -- one would think that Hollywood would have made many films on this subject. But it hasn't.

Yet, now, released as if by Providence the week after the fraudulent elections in Iran and the suppression and murder of Iranian dissidents, is a film about the nature of the radical Muslims who govern Iran. Titled "The Stoning of Soraya M.," the film depicts events based on the true story of a woman stoned to death in a rural village in Iran in 1986 for allegedly committing adultery.

If you want to understand the type of people who run Iran, see this film. If you want to understand why men and women risk their lives to demonstrate against the fascist theocracy that rules Iran, see this film.