Iranian Media Says First Lady Deserves Death

This is a day late, but there was some "Error 503" thing going on last night when I tried a new post. Anyways, here it is...

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Iranian-Media-Says-French-First-Lady-Deserves-Death-101884398.html

This article focuses on Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani, who in 2006, was accused of committing adultery and murdering her husband in Iran. France and Italy are currently trying to get Ashtiani a sentence lighter than the "stoning to death" that she received for her adultery charge. The main point of this article was that Iranian media claimed that the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, deserves to die for saying Ashtiani should not be put to death and signing a petition for her release. Bruni-Sarkozy was labeled a "prostitute" by Iranian television and also was called "immoral." There are many more human rights and women's rights issues floating around the topic, but for this post, it is not very relevant.

The criticism in this article refers to the Iranian media in how they go to extreme measures in going against the First Lady. From what I remember from a previous class, this sort of statement is not very moral in the Islam religion, which also makes for a critique. If looked in detail, the article refers to the rights of humans and women as well, but then the media goes on ahead and bashing another human with the word "prostitute" and "immoral" which seems very contradictory in my opinion.

This article does not exactly contradict their own media, but i found that the idea of Iranian media contradicting themselves within this article seemed relevant. I find that this is a good critique of the Iranian media because they themselves are acting immoral while making these sort of statements and they have quite a religious point of view. Not too many suggestions are being made about this case, but there are those in Iran protesting the rights of Ashtiani hoping to improve the law system. Hopefully this will all end peacefully.