Unless you’ve been living under one yourself, you’ve probably heard about the women’s silent protest on London’s Westminster Bridge, where about 100 mostly Muslim women joined hands to show that “terror will not defeat and divide us”.
Around the same time, Muslim teenager Heraa Hashmi made news for her 712-page Google document “proving that Muslims do indeed condemn terrorism”.
The irony of women being the ones to object to violence that is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men aside, why are so many Muslims still falling into the trap of proving their humanity to those who insist it is lacking?
Read the full article by Ruby Hamad at The Age.