The custom and method of breaking the silence is what he taught me
Saturday 12 May 07
A memory from my childhood: In the outskirts of my hometown in the south of Iran, the girls were and still are beheaded because of tribal and family customs. Sometimes, the criminal male members of the family, after wiping the stain of disgrace from their family's reputation in their wicked way way, would place the cut off head behind their door at night to be viewed by everyone in the morning and thus prove to all the extent and stretch of their zeal and fanaticism. Girl-killing was the existing and exciting news in our town. The twilight was colored with the blood of the innocent, native girls and the news would circulate mouth to mouth to be a warning to all children who are born female and were supposed to, as soon as they reach the age of nine, act like mature, adult females, that they should be aware of their situation and not do a single wrong act...