Please watch this trailer first.
I went to GSC to watch this International screen last night. Funnily enough, I got a Facebook request from a friend to join a group called Save Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani Campaign كمپين نجات سكينه محمدي آشتياني Immediately, I know I have to blog about this.
The movie, "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" depicts the life of a very young iranian girl who was in a quest to get a notebook and to go to school to study. She had to sell the eggs in the market amongst all the grown ups and put up with the insensitive teachers in boys school. The most horrifying scene was when a group of boys caught her and were about to stone her to death. They already dug her "grave" and about to put her to death. My lips were trembling. I was cursing inside and my I frowned. I nearly stood up in the cinema and shouted injustice. Neither am I an extreme feminist or liberal, I thought no one deserve such a painful and shameful punishment.
When I was checking out the FB invite, I was astonished! Sakine Mohammasi Ashtiani is said to have committed adultery and have been jailed for 5 years and recently sentenced to death by stoning. What in the world that a person has to be stoned to death? Aren't the five years of misery and slashes sufficient for a weak womanlike her? When do men given the authority to punish an act that is between man and God? Again, nothing against the religion. All religions are good and no man on earth is urged to punish one another or to take revenge for something others had mistakenly done.
But why do the children have to bear with this and live in fear for years?! How do they go out there and live a normal live like other children?
The worst things is this. According to Amnesty International, the stones should be large or heavy enough to kill her within two attempts. This brutal punishment has to be also witnessed by 20 men.
What's more? Really... WTF!
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This post is written with tears.
