There are 4,000 miles and two continents separating Manchester from Pakistan, writes KHADIJA KHAN. But last week that great distance shrank to nothing in the polling booths of Gorton and Denton.
KHADIJA KHAN: Aborting a baby because of its gender is a repugnant practice. So it beggars belief that any official body would want to facilitate such a corrosive custom as this.
Do not tell me that wearing a burqa is a matter of choice for Muslim women. I know that is a lie, because my mother confronted the lie and paid a hideous price for her courage.
Misogyny exists everywhere. But we're usually quick to call it out.
Only when it's Islamic misogyny do we fall silent, excusing it as a cultural issue.
Growing up in a deeply religious household in Pakistan, my sisters and I were used to the daily inequalities that marked domestic life under conservative Islam.
Over the past 18 months, Abdulmohsen has targeted me with threatening messages. Nothing I saw in them ever gave me an inkling he was planning to commit this terrible crime.
