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When I heard that #MahsaAmini, a Kurdish woman in Iran, died after being in the custody of the “morality police” who'd taken her in because she wasn't wearing a “proper hijab” I thought of other female lives sacrificed on the altar of a piece of cloth feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
I thought of the 15 girls who died in a school fire in Saudi Arabia, in 2002, after “morality police” in that country barred them from fleeing the burning building—and kept firefighters from rescuing them—because the girls weren't wearing headscarves & cloaks required in public
No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced. The only concession to the horror was that girls’ education was quietly taken away from the Salafi zealots washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
