Frieha Altaf, an events manager, model and actress who tweeted about abuse she suffered as a 6-year-old, said Zainab's death is a catalyst to challenge shame and fear that silence victims and their parents.
"There is no stopping now," she said. "For me, there is no stopping now."
But Abid cautioned that change isn't necessarily unstoppable. Frank language about sexual assault will likely bring a backlash from religious conservatives and many parents who oppose discussing sexual issues and hold tight to traditions that ban mixing of the sexes, consider girls responsible for the family "honor" and even forgive killing a girl who marries for love.
That comment reminds me of the American "rule" .... NOT to discuss politics or religion in public.
Who did that benefit?
Politics effects your life every moment of your life ...
And religion is a political system when it supports patriarchal societies and aims to control
not only its own members, but the behavior of all of society.
And unfortunately religion has controlled our patriarchal societies and our press.
Whenever we would gather at Holidays someone always would say, We should not discuss politics or religion for we will end up in a heated discussion. But before you knew it, What were we discussing? Politics and Religion! Yes, we sometimes Ruffled a Few Feathers, but it was all good. Everyone was still speaking to others when we left. A Real Miracle.
Americans were generally very behind in discussing politics -- not like the French or the Irish ....
Maybe the difference -- and this thought just came to me -- was that we lived under the belief
that we had "Separation of Church & State" ... where as France was a Papal State originally
and the Irish certainly knew they had had RCC forced upon them. They understood the
politics of the RCC and its lies and the harm done to their nation by the church.
I'll have to give that some more thought, but at the moment it sounds OK to me.... :)
I love the custom of running out into the streets and protesting whatever. The protests we have here though are sometimes for the wrong things. People do not protest for the injustices of the poor or the old or the children. Very sad.
Agree ... which is why the entire LEFT has to come together and stop fighting for the
same $1 buck donation. No reason why women's groups shouldn't be supporting NAACP and
vice-versa - or why both shouldn't be supporting Social Security and Medicare4ALL.
Why wouldn't environmentalists support women and people of color?
Why wouldn't they support animal-rights where animal-exploitation is a great source of Global Warming.
And, of course, everyone involved with trying to clean up our drinking water and stop pollution.
Elites/right wing have always been united in every way possible -- up, down and sideways.
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Frieha Altaf, an events manager, model and actress who tweeted about abuse she suffered as a 6-year-old, said Zainab's death is a catalyst to challenge shame and fear that silence victims and their parents.
"There is no stopping now," she said. "For me, there is no stopping now."
That comment reminds me of the American "rule" .... NOT to discuss politics or religion in public.
Who did that benefit?
Politics effects your life every moment of your life ...
And religion is a political system when it supports patriarchal societies and aims to control not only its own members, but the behavior of all of society.
And unfortunately religion has controlled our patriarchal societies and our press.
carmencita ago
Whenever we would gather at Holidays someone always would say, We should not discuss politics or religion for we will end up in a heated discussion. But before you knew it, What were we discussing? Politics and Religion! Yes, we sometimes Ruffled a Few Feathers, but it was all good. Everyone was still speaking to others when we left. A Real Miracle.
Votescam ago
Americans were generally very behind in discussing politics -- not like the French or the Irish .... Maybe the difference -- and this thought just came to me -- was that we lived under the belief that we had "Separation of Church & State" ... where as France was a Papal State originally and the Irish certainly knew they had had RCC forced upon them. They understood the politics of the RCC and its lies and the harm done to their nation by the church.
I'll have to give that some more thought, but at the moment it sounds OK to me.... :)
carmencita ago
I love the custom of running out into the streets and protesting whatever. The protests we have here though are sometimes for the wrong things. People do not protest for the injustices of the poor or the old or the children. Very sad.
Votescam ago
Agree ... which is why the entire LEFT has to come together and stop fighting for the same $1 buck donation. No reason why women's groups shouldn't be supporting NAACP and vice-versa - or why both shouldn't be supporting Social Security and Medicare4ALL.
Why wouldn't environmentalists support women and people of color? Why wouldn't they support animal-rights where animal-exploitation is a great source of Global Warming. And, of course, everyone involved with trying to clean up our drinking water and stop pollution.
Elites/right wing have always been united in every way possible -- up, down and sideways.
:)