Her Father Shot Her in the Head, as an ‘Honor Killing’

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15. But, I'm told on DU that this religion is just a lot of very sweet looking smiling children in white

headscarves! It's a joy fest!

So to answer the other OP, how can anyone look at this, and look at the outfit in that picture, and not understand that there are many people who use this religion as an excuse to crush women under the heel.

And before anyone says, "Oh, well, every religion does that," I will say: 1) Yes they do, but even the worst of them does not require that women erase themselves and 2) even the worst does not glorify the act of murdering women who are not compliant and 3) Yes, I understand that this is an issue of Islamic fundamentalism but let's stop letting the conversation stop there.

When murders and erasure of identity are committed on women by fundamentalist Christian sects, we acknowledge it. And we don't encourage its spread by saying that objections to it are bigoted.

Let's do the same with the obvious hatred of women within fundamentalist Islam.