Every week, it seems, we hear of some horror from the distant Islamic world, some ghastliness bound up with alien concepts of honor and insult.
A woman gets 200 lashes for enduring violent rape and having the temerity to complain about it. Another woman is jailed and threatened with death for letting schoolchildren name a stuffed toy after the prophet of Islam. A man throttles his teenage daughter for her refusal to wear a headscarf — oh. Wait.
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