“Don't want to listen to parents? Love Pinjara Tod? Want to be "progressive"? Don't want to follow the Quran and Sunnah? Read and Cry.”
This was the teaser text that the Milli Gazette put out on their Facebook page for a news story about a girl being gang-raped by 6 friends in a Delhi hotel this weekend.
What's the Milli Gazette, you ask? In their own words, they’re ‘India's leading Muslim Newspaper read widely by its 140m Muslims.’
140 MILLION people being influenced by this medieval mindset of victim-blaming when a woman doesn't fit into the suffocating norms society or religion has laid down for her.
Could there be a more gross abuse of power?
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