Far from shrouding herself in a cloak of victimhood, taking a vow of silence or committing suicide -- which would have been in keeping with the fate of other victims of this bizarre punishment before her -- Mukhtaran Mai fought back. She told her story to the whole world.
Since ‘Shame' premiered at the 31st annual Toronto International Film Festival, last month, it has been making waves through its combination of interviews interspersed with TV footage, explaining Mai's ordeal. Gang-raped in June 2002, in Meerwala, a farming village in southern Punjab on the orders of the panchayat (village council) as retribution for her younger brother's alleged sexual molestation of a girl from the socially high Mastoi clan, justice still remains a distant dream for Mai.
In Iran, they're getting ready to stone women for adultery. Barbaric as that is, few know that the law proscribes the size of the stones so as to maximize the pain and prolong death.
But if you criticize Islam, the left call you a bigot and a racist. If speaking out against such barbarism is racist, count me in.
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