No one made any noise but a few religious-right types. Until recently it never even showed on that bastion of wild, right-wing insanity, FOX News. No leftwing papers, no liberal press, none of our wonderful "women's rights" groups, and no self-styled human rights groups ever even turned over a piece of paper or pushed a dollar across a desk in opposition to stoning women to death. (Men are stoned, too, but we seem to have lost sight of that fact.)
But finally, a right-wing movie named "The Stoning of Soraya M" has awakened a few slumbering people. FOX interviewed the producer, I believe, and a few others who know what stoning-torture is all about. More people, conservatives generally, got involved. We heard the spokeswoman on a few talk shows, and her presentation moved hearts. Finally we can admit that Iran is a barbaric country, stoning is deliberately designed to be torture while killing, and this practice has no place in the modern world. That's why it's okay in the Middle East.
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