What's the world coming to?
Photo of schoolgirls in Afghanistan by Farzana Wahidy.
This time last week, Toronto media was reacting to the death of Aqsa Parvez, sparking a lot of debate around inter-generational culture clashes in Muslim Canadians.
What's perhaps even more upsetting is the notion that women are still blamed for being in the company of men who aren't their husbands. The penalty? 200 lashes and six months in prison. If she's lucky.
As The Globe and Mail originally reported, "The victim in the case, known only as the 'Girl of Qatif' after her hometown in eastern Saudi Arabia, was in a car with a man in 2006 when they were attacked and raped by seven men."
I wonder what the penalty would have been had it been a man who was suspected of cheating on his wife. What does this say about the differences in public perception of justice and equality?
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