Ashtiani Stoning May Have Benefited from International Outrage
Denise Moss ·
Jul 9, 2010 at 8:34am
This story in the Guardian revealed that international pressure and public exposure of the potential stoning of Sakieh Mohammedie Ashtiani may have won the woman a reprieve. However, her fate is still worrisome. The last such case resulted in hanging, instead of stoning.
This makes our State Department's tepid response this week and the cone of silence that hung over Washington on this case even more egregious. And there are still 15 people facing the same horrendous death...for offenses not death-worthy. Bravo to the brave protestors in Iran fighting for women's freedom and boo to our administration. It still all makes me sick.
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Jun '10
Re: Ashtiani Stoning May Have Benefited from International Outrage
Denise: Surely you're not suggesting that the State Department's "we're thinking about possibly being on the verge of being concerned about this" response wasn't the game changer. As you know, this administration has a firm policy of "speaking truth to power."
May '10
Re: Ashtiani Stoning May Have Benefited from International Outrage
Diplomacy obviously has its limits, but there are miles between the way our politicians talk and the way they ought to. Sending acolytes around the world to decry the terror of Arizona's immigration law, for instance, strikes me as something we shouldn't do if we're going to ignore outright barbarity in other nations.
Words can only do so much, but I wish the State Department would occasionally call a duck a duck.