The Toronto Star reports today on the tragic story of a young Canadian girl who was killed by her own father because she refused to wear a hijab to school:
It’s a horrible story. But on the same day as this girl is murdered for her secularism, the left is busy defending the veil. See Danielle Crittenden’s piece at the Huffington Post, “Islamic Like Me: HuffPosters Defend the Veil.” Crittenden spent a week dressed in a full burqa just to see what it would be like–and surprise! she didn’t like it one bit. But her series for HuffPo earned her nothing but the animus of the site’s readers, and now she’s defending the piece:
There’s something deeply troubling about the left’s embrace of the veil. It’s obvious that not all of these women want to wear the veil, and it’s obviously the West isn’t just as oppressive towards women. But in light of today’s news, that last question, which Crittended felt compelled to answer for her left-wing audience, is absurd on its face. We aren’t the ones threatened by the veil–the threat is to 16-year-old girls who don’t want to wear it, and risk death at the hands of their own family should they refuse to do so. “Culturally different from our customs” is, in this case, nothing more than a euphemism for barbaric.
