As a child, Islam was weaponised to keep independent-thinking women like me, and anyone who opposes the fundamentalists, in their place by fear, writes KHADIJA KHAN.
These were the chaotic scenes yesterday as Arbel Yehoud was escorted by fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to a waiting Red Cross vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip.
the brutality and savagery perpetrated against little Sara Sharif serves as a stark reminder that we, as a society, failed to defend these humane values.