“She shall
be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town
shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being
promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from
among you.”
Deuteronomy
22:21
But the same
Bible says John 8.5
‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very
act of committing adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you say?’
They said
this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
When they
kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let anyone among
you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’
Questing
Moses did not make Jesus Christ a hero. He was crusified.it took years to
understand what Jesus Christ meant by that day.
It says
there was no one without a sin. This may be a reason stoning to women being condemned
in many countries in the world. Because I have a feeling we are all sinners
more or less. May be we are not exposed like the other person but we have sins.
Out of all adultery has become a common sin in the 21st century.
In Sri Lanka
within the legal frame work adultery is not a crime, but it’s a reason to
obtain the divorce. If this is the case I dought there will be very few married
couples. With the large number of population of Buddhist we have to follow the
third fundamental remaining in faith to husband and wife. But Sri Lankan free
society even the cabinet ministers boasted of adultery in parliament. Hope that
Hansard records not being deleted.
This all
came to my mind because a Sri Lankan house maid in Saudi Arabia found guilty in
Adultery and about to stone. This kind of punishment we think brutal, ruthless,
sadistic or uncivilized .Also it says it’s impartial because only this woman
going to be stone. Why this man did not get the equal punishment?
Pre -Islamic Middle
East was far different from what we see today. Middle East became such wealthy
nation only it discovered oil in late 19th century.Before that Middle
East was a Nomadic nation in deserts.by the time of Muhammad Nubby or the holy pro-pert was came as the messenger of Allah the Middle East was very hard and
harsh place to women.
Most of us
think that in Islamic it restricted women’s liberty, but actually in Islam it
tried to safeguard the women. The time when Muhammad nubby was delivering god’s
message the infant baby girls were buried in alive by the people in Middle East. Muhammad Nubby banned this, he safe guarded infant baby girls without burring alive.
Also he ordered if someone hoping to get married has to collect certain amount
of money to assure the prospective wife’s future. But over centuries like the
other religions the intentions of the fundamentals were neglected and necessity
of the people stands out. In Sri Lankan Islamic people expecting a dowry from
the bride totally forgetting what Holy pro-pert said which a shame is
.
In middle
east it s going to the worst scenario. Rich Middle Eastern do not safe guard
their wife’s future with the bridal price, they just buy their brides throwing
a fortune. I don’t think neither of these extremes that Holy Pro-pert expected.
I never been
to Saudi Arabia, but I have read very integrating book about how rich Middle
Eastern misuse the Islamic religion.
It s the “Princess: A True Story of Life behind
the Veil in Saudi Arabia (The Princess Trilogy)”
By Jean
Sasson .What we read is not always true, but when I read the book I feel there are
certain truth .In Islam use of Alcohol is completely banded. I know many Sri Lankan Islamic people who consume alcohol on daily
basis.
It’s not the
religion that s people misuse it.
Again back
to stoning I remember a true story later there was a film based on this story.
“The Stoning
of Soraya M” story based in
the remote Iranian village by car trouble, a journalist is approached ,
a woman with a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody
circumstances of Soraya's death, by stoning, the previous day. Finally the journalist must escape with his
life to tell the story to the rest of the world and he did .the Journalist role
was play by James Caviezel.
When I was watching
this movie I was in half way of my architectural education and kind of exhausted
with architectural education system in here.The personality of the James
Caviezel made me to think most Journalist must be good looking as James Caviezel.
Well again I changed my mind after watching Passion of the Christ, but I still
like his smile with that eyes.
However
Stoning of Soraya M explains how much an abusive husband can go in Islamic
religion to fulfill his selfish reasons. He was cruel enough to give stones to
his sons use against their mother.
But again we
don’t need religious support to full fill our selfish reasons, so many real
stories both husbands and wives kill each other with their own reasons.
Again the
Sri Lankan house maid a mother of four children in Sri Lanka found guilty in
Saudi Arabia for adultery. Very soon she will be stone as Soraya to the death.Adultery
is not acceptable, as well the stoning till death.
I would like
to end this with another film. It’s “the broke back mountain”. I watched it few
time with two reasons. One is the story and the other one is the Heath Ledger.
Even though he died nearly 7 years ago how can I forget such attractive person?
The environment change people, even in burning Middle East or cold Broke Back
Mountain we tend to change as per the environment. But most cases we all ended
up with disaster.
