MSNBC reports on pre-teen prostitution in Pakistan. Some of the article is unintentionally ironic:
Others in the country have targeted the police’s inability to protect children as a reason to rally the people against the government.
“This is exactly why all the religious parties are campaigning for Shariah law,” said Maulvi Noor Mohammed, a hard-line Islamic cleric, known for his ties to the Taliban.
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“What these men are doing is against Islam and they must be punished accordingly,” he said. “Islam guarantees protection for these young girls.”
...Just so long as they don’t, say, show their hair or ankles outside the house, or, kiss someone in public, or, Allah forbid, kiss someone before marriage. In which case we’ll stone them to death in the name of Allah. For their own good!