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TweetThose kooky mullahs in Tehran are fuming again. This time over a film that exposes more barbarity in Iran, perpetrated, of course, in the name of islam.
Rome, 16 Sept. (AKI) – An Iranian feature film that tells the story of a woman being stoned to death has made headlines at the Toronto Film Festival and provoked an angry response from Iranian authorities.
The film, entitled ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’ by Iranian-American director Sirous Norasteh, was shown at the festival which ended last Saturday.
The film tells the real-life story of Soraya, an 18-year-old woman and mother stoned to death in 1984 for alleged sexual infidelity in western Iran.
The film has been described by Iran’s state news agency Irna as another “Hollywood operation to damage the image of the Islamic Republic.”
“(It’s) a film that serves the warmongering strategy of George W. Bush,” said Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars.
The story of the film says that Soraya’s husband Ali no longer wants to be with her after they had four children together, and that he wants to marry a 14-year-old girl.
Ali cannot afford two wives, so he demands a divorce from Soraya, who refuses for economic reasons. Instead, Ali conspires with the local mullah to frame Soraya for infidelity.
The story is told by her aunt, Zahra, played by Iranian expatriate and Oscar-nominated actress Shohre Aghadashlou.
The film is based on a book published in Paris in 1994 by Franco-Iranian journalist Fereydoun Sahebjam.
Fereydoun is played in the film by Jim Caveziel, who acted in Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ.
Wow those guys must be on some powerful narcotics! Their claim is that the movie is a Hollywood operation to damage the islamic ‘republic’, and serves the warmongering strategy of George Bush. Right, we have to resort to Hollywood to make islam look bad. The THOUSANDS of muslims who blow themselves up in crowded streets, decapitate the innocent, rape children and farm animals, and make the Los Angeles Bloods and Crips look like The Vienna Boy’s Choir have nothing to do with the negative image of islam in the world.
Apparently they haven’t noticed that Hollywood (not all the numbnut celebretards, but a LOT) loves terrorists, and sympathizes with freedom fighters who blow themselves up in the name of islam. As for calling Bush a warmonger, they seem to have some selective amnesia about Iranian muslims taking American diplomats hostage and holding them for 444 days, supplied the jihadists loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq, and routinely claim they are going to destroy Israel.
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