Silence, woman
Update: This story is from 2010, as diligent readers pointed out.
Ya think?
Right. By the same token, don’t report murders, because that might promote murderophobia. Don’t report torture because that might promote torturerophobia. Don’t report genocide because that might promote genociderophobia.
I’m well familiar with the line of thought because of Does Got Hate Women? There were worries about it, and discussions, and cautions. I did a BBC4 chat about it with a few women from various religions, and the woman who was there to defend Islam made an objection the gist of which was “people tell all these stories about brutality to women.” Well, yes, and? You’re saying the stories should be buried?
The organizers who canceled this event are saying exactly that.
The latest Jesus and Mo seems apposite.
I did a google search for this story, but found references only to a 2021 event that was canceled by the Toronto City School Board. So either this is old news (which doesn’t make it less atrocious), or it’s happened more than once.
I have no idea why this has re-entered the intertubes, nearly 3 years later. It was a book club for teenage girls, and the TDSB decided not to have their students participate in the sessions around that book and one other. They then rescinded that decision, about a month later.
This refers to an event in 2010 – so yes, some years ago, but as What a Maroon says, not the less atrocious for that. The fullest account I can find off hand is on Wikipedia, but it seems to be well researched and properly referenced. It includes an account of the book club episode:
The Yazidi people have their own distinctive set of religious beliefs and practices. This makes them heretics in the view of hardline Islamists.