The Stoning of Soraya M.
In 1986, a call for women rights had been heard all over the world to stand up and fight again for women in all the countries on earth. A woman was stoned to death for a pretended crime that she didn’t make, a conspiracy was made by her husband for his personal goals and she had to pay the price costly. That price Soraya paid was the awaken pulse for all the women in Iran, it gave some of women rights back to them.
In many countries and places around the world, women considered to lower class then men. She serve her husband, get beaten for the little mistakes that she forgot to do, fulfill the sexual desire, cook his food, raise his children (more focusing on sons) and clean the house. Daughters are his property to barter and trade with other men, also they are viewed as a burdened and drowned or aborted for not being sons. Men made their own law and used only what serves their right in the religion. What is that law that had been decided by a board of few men and without the presents of any women? It is the law of men who need to make their selves better than women. Which “full sentence” in the Qur’an and Sunnah (the source of Islamic and Sharia law) says that men are better than women? It is the words that men decided to read and then stop reading what comes after they got what they need.
The Qur’an preserved the right for both men and women when it says “O people, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul. From it He created its spouse, and from both of them scattered many men and women. Fear Allah, by whom you ask one another, and (fear) the wombs (lest you sever its relationship). Allah is ever watching over you” An Nisa’ (women) {4.1} Qur’an. This example is one of many for those who follow the Islamic and Sharia law latterly from the Qur’an and it is more than enough to show the equality between men and women in the Islamic religion. It also tell us that the punishment Soraya had should be made to Hisham also because...