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"While The Stoning implicitly shows the deep differences between Christianity and Islam regarding the role of women, the film is not a critique of Islam. Quite the opposite: What happens to Soraya is an abuse of Islamic law fueled by revolutionary extremism, personal corruption and rural tradition."

Watching the film brought to the archbishop's mind the years he served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, during which he came to see "how unusual our nation really is."