The Washington Times, September 27, 2008 (excerpts) – In New York this week, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced a slew of questions about Iran’s lack of cooperation with U.N. inspectors, belligerent threats to Israel, and Iran’s future as a U.N.-defying nuclear power. Here’s a new question: Does Iran really want to be a country that stones women to death for their sexual sins?

Even now, human rights activists say, Gilan Mohammadi, a 30-year-old woman in Isfahan, is awaiting death by stoning – imposed by a local court for what American politicians like to call an “inappropriate relationship.”

Stoning in the 21st century? Let the debate begin… and continue on, I hope, until next year when the face of Mr. Ahmadinejad appears yet again at the United Nations Plaza to taunt us.