Dr. Sanity on how many Islamic societies dehumanize 51% of the population:

Enormous effort goes into veiling women, dressing women modestly, silencing women, covering women’s bodies, punishing women, controlling women, reviling women, humiliating women, beating women, subjugating women, avoiding the dishonor of women, keeping women uneducated, policing women, infantilizing women — in short, dehumanizing women — all under the guise of “protecting” and “honoring” them as they relegate them to animal-like status.

We took note of this previously in Taliban Afghanistan, but it constantly amazes and appalls us anew.

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