The document discusses how religion affected gender dynamics and social morality in the context of the true story depicted in the film The Stoning of Soraya M. It summarizes that Soraya M. was falsely accused of adultery by her husband Ali so he could divorce her. Though she was innocent, she was convicted under Islamic law due to the difficulty for a woman to prove her innocence against her husband's accusations. This showed the social inequality between men and women's treatment under Islamic law. It led to Soraya suffering verbal and emotional abuse from her community during her sham trial and eventual execution by stoning, showing how religion was used to justify killing an innocent person and the lack of proper legal oversight in rural areas at the time.
The document discusses how religion affected gender dynamics and social morality in the context of the true story depicted in the film The Stoning of Soraya M. It summarizes that Soraya M. was falsely accused of adultery by her husband Ali so he could divorce her. Though she was innocent, she was convicted under Islamic law due to the difficulty for a woman to prove her innocence against her husband's accusations. This showed the social inequality between men and women's treatment under Islamic law. It led to Soraya suffering verbal and emotional abuse from her community during her sham trial and eventual execution by stoning, showing how religion was used to justify killing an innocent person and the lack of proper legal oversight in rural areas at the time.
The document discusses how religion affected gender dynamics and social morality in the context of the true story depicted in the film The Stoning of Soraya M. It summarizes that Soraya M. was falsely accused of adultery by her husband Ali so he could divorce her. Though she was innocent, she was convicted under Islamic law due to the difficulty for a woman to prove her innocence against her husband's accusations. This showed the social inequality between men and women's treatment under Islamic law. It led to Soraya suffering verbal and emotional abuse from her community during her sham trial and eventual execution by stoning, showing how religion was used to justify killing an innocent person and the lack of proper legal oversight in rural areas at the time.
In the movie of The Stoning of Soraya M, how does religion affect
the societys gender dynamic as well as social construction of morality? The case of Soraya M, as we all know is based on true story. Society condition, law and regulation are legal realities in Iran. Soraya M. was accused of adultery by her husband Ali, who wanted to get out of his marriage, and was aided by the village authorities, as well as the nature of Islamic law, to successfully accuse and condemn his wife of having sexual relations outside the marriage. Consequently, Soraya was convicted and later was stoned to death for a crime, which she had not committed. In those scenes, we can see the social construction of morality. It seems to be acceptable for a man to just divorce his partner without a proper compensation and reason. And it seems to be okay that Ali has a relationship with another woman, underage woman ( 14 years old ) while he is still married. As for Soraya, it is wrong for her to touch hands and smile at man even though she has no malice while doing so. Under Islamic law, the husband needs to produce two male eyewitnesses in order to win a case of matrimonial infidelity. In the scene of the accusation, we can see the inequality between men and women. If a man is accused, the woman who accuse him has to prove him to be guilty, while on the other hand, if a woman is accused by a man, the accused woman has the impossible task of proving her innocence. As in the case of Soraya M., the whole town turned against her simply on the basis of unproved accusations. From the mayor of the village to Soraya's family members, her guilt was predetermined and had already been decided. The verbal and emotional abuse suffered by Soraya is more than any human being
deserves to endure. In the scene where Soraya go throughout her
trial and even at the time of her execution, Soraya's father compared her to a whore. The father, while participating in the stoning of his daughter, shouted "'Allah be praised!. . . . There whore, take that!'. He killed an innocent woman in the name of religion. Religious fervor causes any individual to call himself a cleric and could serve as a quasi-judge. Such situations are rare in the cities but are prevalent in rural areas. In less populated and rural regions, a high degree of decentralization of authority, coupled with a lack of judicial uniformity, has resulted in a lack of enforcement of the law. This is shown in the case of Soraya M., where the clerical judges were not accountable to review by a higher court.