e my mother and my aunties who were basically turned into prisoners in their own homes, and I thought – I can’t live that life.” Her mother had been a university lecturer until, at the age of 22, she was married off and turned into a housebound baby-machine. […]
Shazia Mirza is not going to run away, and she is not going to settle for a life as chattel to some oaf-husband. She is going to stand and fight with the weapon that dissolves the absurdities of religious fanaticism better than any other: ridicule. So when are we going to start standing up for her, and the tens of thousands of Muslim women in our city who aren’t going to take it any more?
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