Iranium the movie – 56 terrifying minutes

This is going to be available for free online viewing for a limited time.  If you have not seen it and have an hour to spare, it’s worth watching.

I held my new grandson and rocked him while I watched this. There are no effective words for how terrifying this is to our future and his. I grew up with the fear of the cold war.  It was nothing as horrific as this could be.

It’s our worst nightmare.

Iranian woman set for execution

Okay, now I’m really pissed off. This morning we read that the UN will be investigating US for human rights violations and tonight I read this at Fox.

What kind of president do we have here who would agree to put this nation  -and Arizona – on this UN review when you consider what’s happening in nations like Iran? What kind of human rights violations occur in this country that compare to stoning a woman, or for that matter, a gay person? Where is the outrage from the bleeding heart left about this poor woman’s impending, state sanctioned  murder?

If you’ve not seen the movie, The Stoning of Soraya M., please do see it. It can be rented at Netflix, among lots of other outlets. This should be required viewing for every friggin liberal in this country and every high school student, too. I had to cover my eyes more than once during this movie. If you think that The Kite Runner was a great view of Islam, then you (and I) were taken for a ride. Until I saw The Stoning of Soraya, and after I’d read The Kite Runner, I had this misconception that Islam might have some redeeming values.

I was misinformed.

These are barbarous people who should not sit at the same table with us. What kind of god or religion sanctions stonings and abuse of women and gays?

What kind of people turn a blind eye to this and keep pointing their fingers at their own countrymen while living in the greatest nation on Earth? We have a president who calls his own citizens enemies while this is occuring almost daily around the world. A president who bows to these barbarians and apologizes for us. A first lady who is more concerned about how many donuts we eat and has  no care in the world for the abuse of young women and gay men. A group of fugly women in NOW who are too busy endorsing misogynistic candidates like Jerry Brown to be bothered with the horrendous deaths of women around the world.

When do we say ENOUGH to all of this?

I’m not sorry for this rant. I’m angry.

 

How do you deal with people who live like this?

(Farah Abdi Warsameh, Somalia) Found guilty of adultery, Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, is stoned to death, buried up to his chest.

(Farah Abdi Warsameh, Somalia) The stoning was carried out by an Islamic Insurgent group in Afgoye, Somalia

(Farah Abdi Warsameh, Somalia) The unmarried woman involved was given a more lenient punishment.

(Farah Abdi Warsameh, Somalia) Under sharia (Islamic) law the woman kept her life but was brutally flogged. I don't see a flogging here. I see another stoning.

From the TimesOnline photo gallery.  The Brit’s slant of the news and the images of the world that they want their readers to see is quite interesting. I recommend, if you have the time,  to browse through it.